Terms on Terms on Terms
The Twenties
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The Great Depression
The New Deal
100
Writer who became a leading voice of the African American experience in the United States
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
The flowering of African American arts in the 1920s became known as....
What is The Harlem Renaissance?
100
The biggest drop of the 1929 stock market crash.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
The Depression had deep roots in the economy of the 1920s, including overproduction, high tariffs, missteps by the Federal Reserve, and...
What is uneven distribution of income?
100
The period between March 9 and June 16, 1933, when Congress passed 15 major acts to meet the economic crisis of the Depression, was called.....
What is Hundred Days?
200
Enormously increased manufacturing efficiency
What is the Assembly Line?
200
A Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start....
What is a Cotton Club?
200
Many depositors withdrawing their money at once.
What is a Bank Run?
200
During the Depression, newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called....
What are Hoovervilles?
200
This new Deal program employed people to build roads, public housing, and sewers....
What is Public Works Administration?
300
Leader of the "Back to Africa" movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
300
John T. Scopes was put on trial for....
What is teaching evolution?
300
Covered the money that people save in banks against loss.
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
300
This region was most affected by the Dust Bowl....
What is the Great Plains?
300
This New Deal policy is still part of American life today....
What is the Social Security Act?
400
Stockbroker's demand for immediate repayment of a loan used to buy stock.
What is Margin Call?
400
In 1922, the NAACP's lobbying efforts influenced the House of Representatives to pass...
What is anti-lynching legislation?
400
Migrants from the Great Plains heading west in search of better lives.
Who are Okies?
400
President Herbert Hoover hoped that increasing government funding for public works projects would....
What is providing jobs lost in the private sector.
400
This plan by Roosevelt appeared to interfere with the Constitution's separation of powers....
What is the Court-Packing Plan?
500
The result when the government spends more than it collects in taxes...
What is a Budget Deficit?
500
The Depression had deep roots in the economy of the 1920s, including overproduction, high tariffs, missteps by the Federal Reserve, and...
What is an uneven distribution of income?
500
Guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and bargain collectively.
What is the Wagner Act.
500
In the 1930's, watching movies, radio programs and other entertainment provided......
What is a release from daily worries?
500
This caused the economy to enter a new recession in 1937....
What is decreased government spending?
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