Roaring 20's
A vibrant period of African American artistic and intellectual flourishing
Harlem Renaissance
This technological advancement allowed Americans to be able to work well into the night?
Electricity
Presidents of this decade were all________?
Conservative Republicans
Who was President at the start of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
FDR's radio addresses to explain what his administration was doing?
Fireside chats
Banning the sale and manufacturing of alcohol
Prohibition
During the 1920s, Americans were able to gain a greater sense of national identity by sharing in the music, news, stories, and jokes they heard on this technological innovation that no one could live without.
Radio
The Presidents of this era favored pro_____ policies?
Pro Business
In this era many banks_____?
Failed
The New Deal had 3 major goals. What were they?
Relief, recovery and reform
This amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States in 1920?
19th Amendment
In this era many Americans began buying things on____ meaning they didn't need the exact money at that very moment?
Buying on credit
These groups especially struggled in the 1920's?
Farmers and unions
This major 1929 event is often marked as the beginning of the Great Depression
Stock Market crash
This agency built dams and provided electricity to rural areas?
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
A teacher in Tennessee was arrested and went to trial in 1925 over teaching evolution in his school.
The Scopes Trial or Scopes- Monkey Trial
This revolutionary production method used by Henry Ford allowed cars to be made faster and more cheaply?
Assembly line
What was the Bonus Army?
WWI veterans marching to Washington DC to demand their pensions/ bonuses
The economic problem when people bought stocks with borrowed money helped inflate the stock market before it crashed
Buying on margin
This agency helped employ young men to work on environmental projects
CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
This genre of music that originally started in new Orleans became incredibly popular with the African American community in this era?
Jazz
This industry boomed in the 1920s as companies sought to create demand for new products
Advertising
The highest peacetime protective tariff the US passed in 1930?
Smoot- Hawley Tariff
What were some of the international economic problems that caused the Great Depression?
War repartions, war debt, high tariffs
This program was created to help support the elderly, unemployed and disabled