Culture
The first motion picture with sound.
What is the Jazz Singer?
The place where people went to drink illegal alcohol.
What are speakeasies?
The economic system supported by Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover.
What is Lassiez-Faire economics?
The neighborhoods of makeshift housing where the homeless lived during the depression.
What are Hoovervilles/shantytowns?
The Three R's of the New Deal.
What are Relief, Reform, and Recovery?
Women who challenged societal norms and gender roles by cutting their hair and wearing short skirts.
What are Flappers?
This trial solidified fundamentalism and expanded rural conservative values.
What is the Scopes Trial?
An unsuccessful peace treaty signed by over 60 nations.
What is the Kellogg-Briand
Hoover's belief that the American People should be able to take care of themselves?
What is rugged individualism?
The scandal caused by FDR trying to create new positions for Supreme Court Justices.
What is the Court Packing Scheme?
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The illegal leasing of government land by Albert Fall that led to a huge scandal during Harding's administration
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The three main causes of the great depression
What are over-production and under-consumption, speculation and buying on margin, and Laissez-Faire Economics?
Following WWI, this caused farmers to have economic hardships throughout the 1920's and 1930's.
What is overproduction?
The radio show where FDR addressed the nation and reassured the citizens that the New Deal was working.
What is FDR's Fireside Chat?
The woman who spread information about birth control and is responsible for the American Birth Control League.
Who is Margaret Sanger
These two Italian Immigrants became the symbol for nativism and showed the dangers of allowing immigrants in.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
Hardings idea of returning the U.S. to a time of peace and prosperity like the gilded age.
What is the return to normalcy?
The Veterans that protested in Washington D.C. to receive early payment for fighting in WWI.
What is the Bonus Army?
The idea that the New Deal gave too much power to the government, and that the New Deal didn't help those who truly needed it.
What are the New Deal criticisms?
This group of writers expressed the pitfalls of greed that was seen throughout the Roaring 20's.
What is the Lost Generation
Conducted raids that led to the illegal jailing and deportation of those suspected of communism, anarchy, or socialism.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
The legislation that supported nativist values by limiting immigration to 2% and became a symbol for old vs. new immigration.
What is the Immigration act of 1924
Over-inflated the stock market by allowing the purchase of stock by paying a little and borrowing the rest.
What is buying on a margin?
This amendment made the production and consumption of alcohol legal and provided the tax revenue to the government.
What is the 21st Amendment?