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A region that stretched north from Texas into the Dakotas and experienced a decade-long drought that began in 1930.  It turned what had once been fertile farmland into a desert.

In the 1920s almost all homes now had a radio.  The radio provided ______________.

A  modern woman whose liberated lifestyle found expression in dress, hairstyle, speech, and behavior.

Roosevelt’s attempt to appoint new, liberal Supreme Court Justices and change the ideological balance of the Court.

A group of artists who isolated themselves from society rather than influence or reform society  became known as the Lost Generation.  Writers of this era included T.S. Elliott, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner.

The political campaign that helped to elect William Henry Harrison to the presidency of the United States acquired the name of the Log Cabin campaign.

The 3 R’s of Roosevelt’s New Deal stood for relief, recovery, and reform.

These were establishments that were popular in the 1920s during Prohibition that served alcoholic beverages illegally.

This meeting of New Englanders, many of them Federalists, denounced the War of 1812.  Party delegates secretly debated and rejected the idea of succession. They had just adjourned when news of Jackson’s victory in New Orleans and the peace treaty became known.  They did succeed at drafting amendments to be added to the Constitution.  However, the Federalists Party would never recover.

When the charter of the Bank of the United States expired in 1811, state banks _______.