Consumer Culture
Prohibition
Causes of the Great Depression
Life in the Great Depression
FDR and the New Deal
100

America retreated to this state after WWI.

What is a state of isolationism?

100

The amendment that banned the production, consumption, and sale of alcohol.

What is the 18th Amendment?

100

A policy of national abstention from foreign relations.

What is isolationism?

100

Homeless shantytowns named after the president.

What are Hoovervilles?

100
Weekly radio addresses conducted by Roosevelt.

What are fireside chats?

200
Allowed companies to mass produce products.

What is the assembly line?

200

Illegal suppliers of alcohol.

What are bootleggers?

200

Businesses began to collapse when they __________ and then suffered from _________.

What is overproduced and underconsumption?

200

This demographic was favored for jobs over women and black Americans.

Who are white men?

200

New Deal program that provides retirement and job security.

What is Social Security?

300

America switched to this type of economy after WWI.

What is a low-production consumer economy?

300

The Prohibition Movement represented a more radical form of this movement.

What is the Temperance Movement?
300

The Stock Market Crash of 1929 is known by this nickname.

What is Black Tuesday?

300

This caused banks to fail during the Great Depression.

What are bank runs?

300

New Deal organization that enlisted young men to develop national parks.

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?

400

Making small payments each month on a bill or debt.

What are installment payments?

400

Bribing government officials to ignore crime.

What is racketeering?

400

A bill designed to bring relief to farmers, but was vetoed twice by Calvin Coolidge.

What is the McNary-Haugen Bill?

400

When the bank takes away your house.

What is foreclosure?

400

FDR received this in the election of 1936.

What is a mandate?

500

Consumer culture in the 1920s became apparent when luxuries slowly became _________.

What are necessities?

500

What Al Capone was eventually convicted of.

What is tax evasion?

500

Placed taxes on all goods being imported from Europe.

What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?

500

When neighbors of farmers would join together to save someone's farm.

What is a penny auction?

500

New Deal program that was ruled unconstitutional.

What is the National Recovery Administration?

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