1920's
This term describes the action of buying an item now, and paying for most of it later.
What is installment buying/buying on credit/buying on margin?
This event in 1929 is largely seen as the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday/the stock market crash?
The U.S. policy of staying out of world affairs is called this.
What is isolationism?
Harlem is located in the northern neighborhood of this city.
What is New York?
What is the New Deal?
This man, responsible for the Valentines Day massacre, is the most famous gangster in U.S. history.
Who is Al Capone?
This term describes the sandy-storms that plagued Midwestern farms during the 1920's and 30's.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This device allowed Americans to receive news, events, and entertainment in their homes.
What is the radio?
Of the many new creations, the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to this new type of music.
What is jazz?
This President holds the record of being elected 4 times and served over 10 years in the White House.
Who is FDR?
This term describes the total ban on alcohol America put into place in the 1920's.
What is Prohibition?
Customizing cars during Prohibition to make them faster led to the birth of this racing sport, mostly in the South.
What is NASCAR/stock car racing?
What is the Volstead Act?
Many Black Americans found their way to Harlem (and other Northern cities) during this movement in the 1900's.
What is the Great Migration?
FDR's messages to the American people in their homes on a regular basis were called these.
What are Fireside Chats?
Many Black stars of this sport in the 1920's played in a separate league, where their stats were not always recorded.
What is baseball?
This New Deal Program was designed to help provide financial relief to the elderly.
What is Social Security?
This nickname was given to rebellious young women who embraced new fashions and attitudes.
What are flappers?
This man is the most popular and influential musician of the Harlem Renaissance and had an iconic voice.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Of the six historical figures above the white-board, this is the only one that's a woman.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The Scopes Trial in 1925 was about this issue, one that changed education forever.
What is the theory of evolution?
Many poor Americans during the Depression stayed in shanty-towns (slums) they bitterly named after this President.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Being prejudiced against any foreign-born person and pro native-born peoples is called this.
What is nativism?
Many Harlem musicians played at this famous venue.
What is the Cotton Club?
FDR's plan to heal the nation began with these "three R's". (Any order)
What are relief, recovery, and reform?