Roaring Twenties
Many Americans were not paying directly with cash to purchase new consumer goods like refrigerators and Model T's. They were ____.
What is buying on credit?
It is the immediate start of the Great Depression. This event happened on October 29, 1929, and is known as Black Tuesday.
What is the stock market crash?
This law tried to help the elderly with financial assistance. It still exists today.
What is the Social Security Act?
This amendment abolished slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
It officially established judicial review in the Supreme Court.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
It's the official name of the time period created by the 18th Amendment.
What is Prohibition?
This president wanted local and state governments, with the assistance of charities, to solve the issues of the Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This was the most controversial law of the New Deal. People have accused it of creating a bunch of fake job opportunities. Most jobs were construction.
What is the Workers Progress Administration (WPA)?
This amendment repealed Prohibition during the Great Depression.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This decision upheld Jim Crow laws until Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Many Americans during the 1920s were going to these places to dance the Charleston and to illegally consume some alcohol.
What are speakeasies?
This long drought with severe winds created difficulties with farming in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This policy created many conservation jumps, including jobs in the Great Plains area.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This amendment gave women the right to vote, after not being included in the 15th amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This court case limited freedom of speech, presenting a "clear and present danger." It also suggests that speech is limited during wartime.
What is Schenck v. United States?
This was caused by the Great Migration. African Americans formed their own culture of music; Louis Armstrong, poetry; Langston Hughes, and painters; Aaron Douglas.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This was the name for Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices with a similar ideology to prevent future court decisions from declaring New Deal laws unconstitutional.
What is the court-packing plan?
This New Deal Policy deals with issues like minimum wage, child labor, and overtime pay.
What is the Fair Labor Standard Act?
This amendment gave African Americans citizenship. Anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This court case established federal supremacy. It determined that the national bank is constitutional because Congress has the authority through the elastic clause.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
One of the two official policies of immigration during the 1920s. Nativism was on the rise due to the concern of communism reaching the United States.
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921? What is the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)?
It's a derogatory term associated with Americans migrating to California looking for work or escaping the Dust Bowl.
What are Okies?
This New Deal law primarily helped struggling farmers dealing with foreclosures. They paid farmers to produce less.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This amendment changed the election of Senators from the House of Representatives voting to a direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
It officially ended the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Congress could not prohibit slavery in U.S. territories. Enslaved people are not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?