Mix 1
This event was caused by a combination of farmers removing the tough natural grass from an area and a series of droughts in the area.
What is the dust bowl?
Archibald Motley (artist), Zora Neale Hurston (writer), and Langston Hughes (poet) are some of the best known artists from this African American cultural revitalization of the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This major world event brought an end to the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
These organizations were controlled by a "boss" and they got citizens to vote for their candidates by offering help to immigrants and the poor, and through shady business deals.
What are political machines?
This group of Americans supported the U.S. role in World War I by selling war bonds, knitting socks, cooking meatless dinners, joining the Red Cross, and working in factories.
Who are women?
The government's hands off approach to economics (business).
What is laisssez-faire?
Fashionable young women of the 1920s who wore lipstick, short hair, and straight simple dresses that just reached their knees.
Who are flappers?
This 1935 Act gave workers the right to form unions.
What is the National Labor Relations Act of 1935?
This group of immigrants came from Great Britain, Ireland, and Germany before 1880. (North and Western)
Who are "old immigrants?"
This Act of 1917 allowed the government to censor the mail and to arrest anyone interfering with the enforcement of the draft.
What is the Espionage Act?
This African American leader believed that people should take pride in their race and encouraged African Americans to form their own businesses and act independently from white people.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This isolationist Act was designed to encourage Americans to buy American.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Act?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt took this action to stop runs on banks.
What is the Bank Holiday?
The time period after Reconstruction, when racial segregation and views of white supremacy reigned in the South.
What is Nadir?
These establishments provided education, childcare, medical care, and help with obtaining citizenship to immigrants.
What are settlement houses?
This racist organization revived on a national scale in the 1920s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This act defined "intoxicating liquors."
What is the Volstead Act?
This organization gave outdoor jobs to young men.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
This group of immigrants came from Poland, Russia, Italy, and Greece after 1880. (South and Eastern Europe)
Who are "new immigrants?"
This infamous letter from the Spanish Ambassador to the United States to the Foreign Minister of Spain criticized President McKinley as being weak. Its interception and publication helped draw America into the Spanish American War.
What is the de Lome Letter?
This Act made all American Indians into United States Citizens, giving them the right to vote, but also requiring them to pay income taxes.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
In this pact 15 nations promised to never use war as an instrument of policy.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This government corporation provides insurance to deposits placed in banks.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
Advances in steel, oil, electricity, transportation, and communication happened during this era in U.S. history.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
Who is Ida Tarbell?