Roaring Twenties and Great Depression

illegal bars during Prohibition

32nd POTUS (1933-1945), Democratic; elected to four terms during the Great Depression and World War II

a federal agency that regulates stock market trading

30th POTUS (1923-1929), Republican; pursued laissez-faire small government pro-business policies

aka Satchmo; popular pioneering jazz trumpeter and scat singer

popular socially conservative evangelical fundamentalist preacher and supporter of Prohibition

31st POTUS (1929-1933), Republican; believed in rugged individualism

29th POTUS (1921-1923), Republican; campaigned for a "return to normalcy"; suffered several corruption scandals

British economist who argued governments should use deficit spending to offset declines in private spending

professional athlete often considered the greatest baseball player of all time

Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945; first female cabinet member

informal radio broadcasts from FDR to the American people

1915 three-hour epic film that inspired a revival of the Ku Klux Klan

the practice of making high-risk investments with borrowed money in hopes of getting a big return

1939 novel by John Steinbeck about migrant farm workers displaced by the Dust Bowl

author of The Sun Also Rises (1926) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) who wrote in a clear-cut, understated style

Italian immigrants with radical political beliefs executed in 1927 for murdering a guard during an armed robbery

young women who wore bobbed hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts and defied traditional social conventions

populist Louisiana governor and US senator who criticized FDR and the New Deal for not doing enough for the poor

singer known as the Empress of the Blues

1935 law to support retired workers beginning at age 65

leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance; wrote "Dreams", "I, Too", and "Let America Be America Again"

a federal agency established to provide young, single men with unskilled manual labor jobs

1932 gathering of WWI veterans in Washington, D.C. seeking early payment of promised compensation; broken up by force

1930 protectionist tax on imports that resulted in retaliatory taxes by America's foreign trade partners

Chicago gangster who controlled bootlegging, speakeasies, and prostitution rings

Harding cabinet official imprisoned for accepting bribes to allow oil drilling on public lands