7.1 Post-World War I Culture
7.2 The Post-War Economy
7.3 Social and Technological Trends
7.3 Intellectual, Women, and Religion Trends
7.4 FDR and the New Deal
100
This group grew in numbers in the years following World War I as the group expanded to attack Jews, Catholics, and immigrants as well as African-Americans
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
This is the belief that the economy should act freely and that government should not regulate business
What is laissez-faire economics?
100
This was an important medium for entertainment and communication in the 1920s - It also transformed politics by providing citizens more direct and immediate access to their leaders
What is the radio?
100
This term was used to describe the "new" less-traditional women of the 1920s who challenged many of the conventional idea about how women should behave and what roles they should play in society
What is flappers?
100
This was the name given to Roosevelt's innovative government programs for dealing with the Great Depression such as the Social Security Act, Fair Labor and Standards Act, and FDIC
What is the New Deal?
200
This was the fear of communism that swept the United States following the Bolsheviks' rise to power in the Soviet Union
What is the Red Scare?
200
This is the practice of buying stocks that became common in the 1920s which involved making high-risk investments in hopes of making high returns on one's money
What is speculation?
200
These were talks given over the radio by President Roosevelt to give people a sense of security and confidence at a time of economic hardsip
What are fireside chats?
200
This was the name applied to an intellectual movement among the African American community in the areas of literature, art, and music
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
The term "New Deal" was taken from Roosevelt’s speech accepting this nomination for the presidency
What is Democratic?
300
This is a sociopolitical philosophy which advocates workers rising up to assume power and owning all property collectively - In this type of society, governments are not necessary because citizens cooperatively live together and sacrifice to serve the interests of society
What is communism?
300
This day, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed and many people lost everything - It marked the start of the Great Depression in the United States
What is Black Tuesday?
300
A result of Prohibition, this crime grew as gangsters came to dominate bootlegging and the running of speakeasies (illegal liquor store or night club)
What is organized crime?
300
This is the belief that the Bible is literally true and without error - It was a strong response to new ideas that many saw as attacking traditionally held religious beliefs
What is fundamentalism?
300
These are the Three Rs that Roosevelt wanted to achieve in response to the Great Depression
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
400
This is a structure of government in which the state, rather than private citizens or businesses, own all the property - In this society, the state regulates the economy with legislation and policies, rather than letting free market forces like supply and demand do so
What is socialism?
400
This was a disastrous series of storms that hit the Midwest during the 1930s and resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being left homeless and displaced
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
These grew in popularity during the 1920s as a form of entertainment and gave rise to such icons as Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth
What are spectator sports?
400
This was the name applied to a group of writers during the 1920s who felt "lost" in a society of greed and moral corruption
What is the Lost Generation?
400
This was the group of scholars and experts that acted as Roosevelt's informal advisors
What is the Brain Trust?
500
These lost much of their influence as economic conditions improved and their movements were identified with communism
What are unions?
500
These were makeshift villages composed of shacks built by those who were poor and destitute as a result of the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
500
Also known as the Volstead Act, this act enforced the 18th Amendment which outlawed alcoholic beverages
What is Prohibition?
500
This centered around a high school science teacher who was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution - Tennessee law forbade teaching Darwin's theory of evolution instead of the Bible's account of creation
What is the Scopes trial?
500
He was a senator from Louisiana who was a harsh critic of Roosevelt believing that each U.S. family should have a guaranteed minimum income, and every citizen should be limited to a maximum income of one million dollars per year
Who is Huey P. Long?
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