Vocabulary
The process of standing down a nation's armed forces from combat-ready status.
What is Demobilization?
A group of houses that are assembled in public parks, and on open lots. Often look like shantytowns.
What is a Hooverville?
This is the massive drought that ravaged the Great Plains during the 1930s.
What is the Dustbowl?
This was Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise to the American people in 1920. Boy were people tired!
What is a “return to normalcy”?
Since FDR, this time period has become the benchmark to determine the early effectiveness of a presidency.
What is the first 100 days?
FDR's plan to add 1 Justice to the Supreme Court for every Justice over 70 years old.
What is the Court Packing Plan?
This amendment helped get women the right to vote. Although women of color would still have to wait for several more decades.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The date of Black Tuesday.
What is October 29th, 1929?
The writers from this New York borough, focused on the themes of race in America, anguish, and their history. This movement brought forth a renewal of writing.
Double Points for an example!
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
FDR’s Wife who traveled around the country for him and became a champion for the disenfranchised.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This trial pitted Clarence Darrow vs. 3 time presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan in a case to determine science in school.
What is the Scopes Trial of 1925/ Monkey Trial of 1925?
Harding’s Sec. of the Interior had a great plan to take bribes and sell land in Wyoming. The problem was the US government was saving that oil…
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This is the group of veterans that marched on Washington to ask for their retirement package early.
What is the Bonus Army?
This is the movement spearheaded by Marcus Garvey in the 1920s, and had roughly 2 million followers behind it. Oh, and there were steamships!
What is the Back To Africa Movement?
After his second election, FDR believed he had this, which is the authority to do what he want after an overwhelming election.
What is a Mandate?
These individuals were the writers and artists that came out of the first World War.
Double points if you can give an example!
What is the Lost Generation?
Hoover supported legislation that focused on this philosophy/type of economics. In this, investing in the top of a business will reap rewards at the bottom of the economy
What is trickle down economics?
This act, passed by congress in 1930, only further hurt the depression, as businesses had a harder time exporting overproduced goods around the world.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
Jazz music, a combination of 19th century American band music and instruments with African American Folk Music, focused on improvisation and what other key element?
What is swing?
All New Deal programs could be summed up under these 3 Rs.
What is Relief, Recovery and Reform?
This act guarantee workers the right to unionize, and helped introduce collective bargaining! How Cool!
What is the Wagner Act?
This is the hardworking, and often described as “zealous” Assistant Attorney General in the 1920s. This person fought back hard against prohibition.
Who is Mabel Walker Willebrandt?
This is the Massacre that took place on February 14th, 1929 between Al Capone’s gang in an attempt to rid Chicago of his competition.
What is the St. Valentines Day Massacre?
Charlie Chaplain and Buster Keaton worked in silent films utilizing this genre of comedy that often times gets very physical and "exaggerates physical movements."
What is Slapstick Humor/comedy?
On March 6th, FDR ordered all of the banks to close for a week. In that time, he passed federal legislation that set up this banking insurance corporation for deposits up to $5,000
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?