Society
These displaced family farmers, popularized in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, migrated from the southern Great Plains to California's Central Valley in search of work during the Dust Bowl.
Okies
The twenties were dubbed the “Golden Age of: this new consumer product that was also used as a form of entertainment and advertisement that helped unify the country
Radio
ECONOMY :)
A luxury good prior to WWI, by 1929 there were 27 million of these in the U.S, which jump started other industries like steel, motels, and highways.
Cars
This attempt by FDR to influence the Supreme Court (Court Packing), which involved a plan to appoint a new judge for every one over 70, never happened due to public and government outcry
Court Packing Plan
In 1988, Ronald Reagan apologized for the issuance of this executive order issued during the war prescribed certain areas as military zones and cleared the way for the incarceration of U.S citizens.
Japanese Interment (E.O 9066)
These icons of the Roaring Twenties embodied individualism. independence, and the rise of consumerism, but were deemed reckless, flippant, pleasure seekers by more conservative members of society.
Flappers
Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Zora Neale Hurston are all artists associated with this cultural movement in the 1920s.
Harlem Renaissance
At Roosevelt's behest, Congress passed a myriad of legislation aimed at the banking crisis, unemployment, and weak industrial performance during this period in 1933.
The Hundred Days
This political party developed a diverse coalition that included labor unions, ethnic minorities and immigrants, farmers, intellectuals, and African Americans, and the working class because of the New Deal.
Democrats
This 1941 act is an example of the transition from isolation to interventionism allowed the US to supply weapons, war supplies, and materiel to Great Britain, China, and later the USSR.
Lend Lease Act
This group of almost 20,000 WWI veterans and their families marched to Washington DC during the Great Depression because they wanted an early government payout that they earned during WWI.
Bonus Army
This closely followed trial of a high school teacher in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law was turned into the 1955 play ‘Inherit the Wind”.
Scopes Monkey Trial
Hoover created this in an attempt to protect US factories from foreign competition, but it backfired and worsened the Depression.
Hoot-Smawley Tariff
This term that advocates self reliance independent from government assistance, is often associated with the notion of laissez-faire was actually coined by President Hoover.
Rugged Individualism
This work program was created by the U.S to bring Mexican agricultural laborers into the U.S to work on farms in the West
Bracero Program
Convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence, these Italian immigrants were believed by many to have been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activities.
Sacco & Vanzetti
The rise of this industry, which virtually ended vaudeville, was revolutionized with the release of the Jazz Singer in 1927.
Film
This Secretary of Treasury initiated tax cuts for the wealthy and oversaw the boom years of the 1920s as well as the Wall Street crash of 1929.
Andrew Mellon
This election took place on the backdrop of the Great Depression and marked the effective end of the previous party System that had been dominated by Republicans
1932
This campaign, which promoted the fight for democracy and freedom overseas and on the home front, highlighted the risks black soldiers took in the war while being denied their rights as citizens back at home.
Double V Campaign
This group of almost 20,000 WWI veterans and their families marched to Washington DC during the Great Depression because they wanted an early government payout that they earned during WWI.
Bonus Army
This group of writers and intellectuals like F. Scott Fitzgerald who lived through WWI were stripped of their illusions of peace and prosperity and criticized 1920s culture & modernism
Lost Generation
This British economist, followed by FDR, advocated that the government should spend more money than it takes in and run a deficit to stimulate the economy.
John Maynard Keynes
He campaigned on the promise of a “Return to Normalcy” after the active progressivism of Woodrow Wilson and helped initiate the Roaring 1920s.
This 1937 speech by FDR, which called for Americans to utilize economic pressure against aggressive nations like Japan, Italy, and Germany, sparked outrage by non-interventionists who saw it as a move away from isolationism and neutrality.
Quarantine Speech