Americans feared communists were working to destroy the American way of life.

A system for buying and selling stocks in corporations.

African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927

A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.

A condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them.

This person was a social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills.

The act of returning to the country of origin. This was done to Mexicans during the Great Depression.

The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression.

The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by the 18th amendment

The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.

A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 illustrated in the picture.

Group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 (during the Great Depression) to demand the immediate payment of their pension bonuses, largest protest.

A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture

Herbert Hoover's belief that people must be self-reliant and not depend upon the federal government for assistance.