Women's Rights
Constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote nationwide
19th Amendment
Environmental catastrophe that affected the American West, worsening the Depression
Dust Bowl
Name a federal agency created during the New Deal
Many possible answers... SSA, FDIC, CCC, FWA, NRA, dozens more
What year did the US enter WWII?
Identify one characteristic of a flapper / "New Woman"
Subverted cultural and social norms; short hair and more revealing clothes; listened to jazz and went to speakeasies
Nickname for the Tuesday in 1929 when the stock market crashed, beginning the Great Depression
Black Tuesday
What was the big picture goal of the New Deal?
To help the common man and the US economy recover from the Great Depression
What was the goal of the Neutrality Acts?
To make it impossible for the US to enter a future war
What impact did WWI have on the cause of women's suffrage?
It empowered both suffragettes and the general public, since women were filling "patriotic" jobs during wartime
What was Herbert Hoover's approach to addressing the Great Depression?
"Rugged Individualism" - placing the responsibility on private citizens and businesses
What were the "Three Rs" of the New Deal?
Relief, Reform, Recovery
Identify a country that US was allied with during the 1930s and 1940s (HINT: we helped them with the Lend-Lease Program)
Great Britain, France; NOT Japan, Germany, Italy
Identify one goal of the Hull House / Jane Addams
To provide social services and education to the urban poor; to assimilate immigrants into US society; to promote integration between the working and middle class
Identify one cause of the Great Depression
Bank runs; unstable reliance on credit and debt; US economic inequality reduced consumer spending
Identify one critic of the New Deal and WHY they criticized it
Possible answers: Huey Long, Father Charles Coughlin, small government Republicans
What is fascism?
An authoritarian political ideology centered on nationalism and racism
The tactics used by Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party
Militant tactics: picketing, disrupting traffic, hunger strikes
How were African Americans affected by the Great Depression / the New Deal?
What was the purpose of the Works Progress Administration?
Spending public funds to create jobs and build public capital projects
What was the goal of the Lend-Lease Program?
To support the British war effort while not entering the US into WWII