Events after WWI
Roaring 20's
Causes of Great Depression
New Deal
FDR as President
100
The fear of rampant communism that resulted in violation of Constitutional rights?
What is the Red Scare
100
A woman who wore short skits, smoked, drank and had short hair was called a?
What is a flapper?
100
What was the economy like in 1928?
The economy continued to grow.
100
Name a criticism of the New Deal?
Too much government invovlement, spending, and FDR's policies
100
What year was FDR elected?
1932
200
People were tired of the upheaval and discord of WWI and Harding came up with this campaign slogan to win votes?
What is "return to normlacy"?
200
The trial in Tennessse over religion and evolution.
Scopes Monkey Trial
200
The economic policy in which the government stays out of the economy
What is laisezz faire?
200
How did FDR change the federal government's role in the economy by ?
Using deficit spending to stimulate economic growth
200
What was the purpose of FDR's fireside chats?
To reassure the public that the economy would improve
300
This famous court case dealt with anti-immigration feelings and nativism? (hint: two last names)
Who is Sacco and Vanzetti?
300
The name given to the day the stock market crashed on Ocotober 29th, 1929.
What is black tuesday?
300
Hoover's policy towards the Great Depression
What is rugged individualism?
300
Creation of jobs for the unemployed by the government and its responsiblity would be associated with which president?
FDR
300
What did the passage of the Glass-Stegall act do ?
Established FDIC to insure deposits and SEC to regulate stock market
400
President Calvin Coolidge's statement "the business of American is business," was about what relationship between the government and the economy?
What is the economy functions best if government allows business to operate freely?
400
What was prohibtion?
the prevention by law of manufactured and sale of alcohol
400
An enviormental disaster on the Great Plains caused by the overproduction of farm land.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
What was the purpose of the social security act?
individual citizens who could not provide for themselves were given financial aid by the goverment
400
Did the New Deal end the Depression
Mostly likely no, WWII brought the US out of the economy
500
Name an event that promoted the growth and popularity of cars?
What is Henry Ford's assembly line, urban sprawl, building of highways and towns that grew along them
500
How was the Harlem Renaissance a turning point for U.S. society?
What is give exposure to African American writing, art, music, acting, and dancing?
500
Name a cause for the Great Depression
High tarrifs, overproduction, selling stocks on margin, speculation, no banking regulations,uneven distribution of income
500
FDR wanted to add new justices to the supreme court to further the policies of the New Deal
What is the Court Packing scandal?
500
Events like the Washington Conference and the Kellogg-Braind Pact illustrate what kind of feeling Americans had after 1919?
Isolationism or neutrality
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