The Roaring 20s
During the 1920s, women began to have an emerging role. What was the name given to women who drank, smoked, danced, and wore less modest clothing.
What are Flappers
On this day, the United States stock market crashed loosing around 90% of its total value. Most the value lost was held by everyday Americans. This event signaled the start of the Great Depression.
What was Black Tuesday (Stock Market Crash of 1929)
This person was president from 1932-1945. He would help install the programs and Acts of the "New Deal" and help rise the United States out of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
To help American business, Hoover passed this act to put this on foreign countries to encourage Americans to buy from American companies
What is Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
The name of this Act was designed to protect those in society that is unable to work either due to elderly, physically or mentally handicap, or unjust firings
What is the Social Security Act
The 1920s were the age where Alcohol was deemed illegial. What is the name of this term?
What is Prohibition
The start of the Great Depression started a panic throughout the United States which caused this event. The result was the shut down of 1 out of every 2 banks across the United States
What are Bank Runs
This person was blamed for the Great Depression. He was President during the start of the Great Depression in 1929 and would institute failed ideas to solve the Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover
This construction project was one of the few projects built during Hoover's term designed to give unemployed Americans a job. This is one of the marvels of modern day USA
What is the Hoover Dam
What is the Glass-Stegall Act
Needing a password to enter, this location would secretly serve alcohol to its patrons away from the eyes of the authorities.
What are "Speakeasies"
With banks shutting down, businesses started to suffer across the United States. The Unemployment Rate in the United States reached what number?
What is ~30% or 1/3 Americans
This famous inventor would bring automobiles into the United States. With his last name still popular today, his invention introduced quicker transportation to everyday people.
Who is Henry Ford
To ease the distrust and hatred by the American people, FDR would talk to the American people through the radio. These broadcasts were named this.
What is the "The Fireside Chats"
This is the name of the Act that protected unions from businesses wanting vengeance for unionizing or going on strike
What is the Wagner Act
These films were kept quiet due to the inability to record audio
What are "Silent Films"
Without consistent income, Americans started to loose their homes and their livlihoods. These were established as homeless encampments for those that lost everything.
What are "Hoovervilles"
This US President took over from 1921-1922 after the Republican Party choose him after the Convention's Air Conditioner broke down. His presidency was marred with scandal with him engaging in affairs with multiple women and corruption plaguing his government. He passed away from a heart attack
Who is Warren Harding
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp
This is the name of the act that put heavy taxes on those that made a high salary; capping out a 75% of salary taxed at $1million a year
What is the Wealth Tax Act
This automobile was the first to be popular across the United States, built by one of the top car companies still in the United States
What is The Model T
While the Depression was ongoing, the United States experienced this event which saw massive storms ruin farmland across the American Midwest. Food prices skyrocketed and farmland was ruined.
What is the Dust Bowl
This US President took over in 1922-1930. Nicknamed being "Silent", he had a motto of being a "hands off" president. While being warned of an impending Depression, this president stayed silent.
Who is Calvin Coolidge
This was the name of the organization founded by Hoover, expanded upon by FDR, that employed millions of Americans to build highways, dams, and infrastructure to provide everyday people with jobs.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration) or PWA (Progress Works Administration)
This is the name of the act that empowered the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) to be able to regulate businesses through licenses or splitting apart monopolies