1920s
Prohibition
Great Depression
New Deal
Dust Bowl/New Deal
100
Who introduced mass production to car manufacturing?
Henry Ford
100
What was the time period during which alcohol was illegal?
Prohibition
100
What do we call the day the Stock Market Crashed (Oct. 29, 1929)?
Black Tuesday
100
List two New Deal programs that provided work for the unemployed.
Civilian Conservation Corps, Public Works Admin., Works Progress Admin., National Youth Admin., Tennessee Valley Authority
100
What was the Dust Bowl?
Severe drought on the Southern Great Plains during the 1930s
200
What do we call people opposed to organized government?
Anarchists
200
What amendment outlawed alcohol across the United States?
Eighteenth Amendment
200
Who was President when the Stock Market crashed?
Herbert Hoover
200
What were the three goals of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
200
Describe two arguments against the New Deal.
National debt, threat to free enterprise, takes away individual freedoms, did not end Great Depression
300
What term means reduction in weapons and armed forces?
Disarmament
300
What were people who sold illegal alcohol beverages?
Bootleggers
300
List two causes of the Great Depression.
Overborrowing, Overproduction, Stock Market Crash, unequal distribution of wealth
300
What did Franklin Roosevelt do during the Bank Holiday?
Closed all banks for four days, allowed only strong banks to reopen.
300
List two opponents of the New Deal.
Huey Long, Francis Townsend, and Father Coughlin
400
What did they call the rebirth of African American culture in New York City?
Harlem Renaissance
400
What is a method of buying on credit with a downpayment followed by monthly payments?
Installment Buying
400
How was Franklin Roosevelt's response to the crisis of the Great Depression different from Herbert Hoover's?
Roosevelt believed the government should intervene directly to help end the crisis.
400
What New Deal program gave pensions to the elderly and disabled?
Social Security
400
How did the Supreme Court respond to the New Deal?
Declared some New Deal programs unconstitutional
500
What were the immigration laws that limited the immigration from certain countries?
Quota Laws
500
Who was the brilliant musician who helped to create jazz?
Louis Armstrong
500
What kind of leaders came to power in European nations during the Great Depression?
Totalitarian dictators
500
List two New Deal programs that still exist today.
Social Security, FDIC, Truth-in-Securities Act
500
What was Franklin Roosevelt's plan to change the Supreme Court?
Increase the number of justices from 9 to 15
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