Boom
The term for the time of economic growth during the 1920s.
What is the roaring twenties?
The Great Migration was when African Americans moved from the ________ to the ________.
What is South to North?
Prohibition made it illegal to do this.
What is make, sell, or transport alcohol?
Unemployment during the Great Depression was over this percentage.
What is 25%?
This president created the New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This new invention helped spread music, sports, and advertisements to homes across America.
What is the radio?
New York City neighborhood became the center of African American culture in the 1920s.
What is Harlem?
This amendment started Prohibition
What is the 18th Amendment?
The nickname for the day the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
The FDIC does this.
What is protect people’s bank deposits?
Buying goods with money you don’t yet have
What is credit?
This southern problem pushed many African Americans to move.
What is segregation or racial violence?
The biggest unintended consequence of Prohibition.
What is a rise in organized crime?
This happened to banks during the Great Depression.
What is people took all of their money out of banks forcing them to close "Run on Banks"?
This program gave older Americans money after retirement.
What is Social Security?
Practice involved buying stocks with borrowed money, contributing to the stock market crash.
What is buying on margin?
This poet wrote about Black pride and life in Harlem.
Who is Langston Hughes?
The law that enforced Prohibition was called the _______ Act.
What is the Volstead Act?
President during the crash:
Who is Herbert Hoover?
The TVA built these kind of structures in the South in order to provide electricity to people.
What are dams and power plants?
This economic concept describes the 1920s trend of consumers wanting the latest products and comparing themselves to others
What is consumerism or conspicuous consumption?
The Harlem Renaissance helped inspire later movements like this major 1950s–60s event.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This is the reason some people support Prohibition.
What is to reduce crime or protect families/morals?
This federal economic policy mistake made the Depression worse by reducing international trade.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
This is the way the New Deal Changed American's view on the role of government.
What is the government should take a more active role in improving the lives of citizens?