The Great Depression
Most economist agree that the Great Depression was started due to ________________.
Overproduction
Gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
Illegal establishments to consume alcohol during the 1920's were called
Speakeasies
The largest largest public works program was the
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
A promise not to use war as an instrument of negotiations between countries.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
During the Great Depression, many homeless families formed Shantytowns called ______________.
Hoovervilles
A flourishing of African American culture during the 1920's was called the
Harlem Renaissance
Women who cut their hair, wore shorter skirts, consumed alcohol, and smoked cigarettes were known as
Flappers
Roosevelts New Deal was based on three principles, or three "R"'s. What were they?
Relief, recovery and reform
The highest tariff passed right after the crash of the stock Market was the
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
President Roosevelt spoke to the American people during the Great Depression via the radio. These talks were known as ____________________.
Fireside Chats
The N.A.A.C.P. was founded by
W.E.B. DuBois
A person who illegal transports alcohol across state lines is known as a ______________.
Bootlegger
The New Deal Agency that brought electrical power to much of the deep South was called the
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The biggest scandal of the F.D.R. administration was the
Court packing plan.
People leaving the Midwest and heading to California as a result of the Great Dust Bowl were known as ________________.
OKIES
He started the "Atlanta Compromise"
Booker T. Washington
The Amendment that repealed Prohibition is the
21'st Amendment
The Great Depression officially ended with
The start of WWII.
The biggest event that happened ensuring that Pres. Hoover would not be reelected was
The Bonus Army
He was arrested for violating the Butler Act
John T. Scopes
She opened the first birth control building in the U.S.
Margaret Sanger
_____________ included beer and wine to be illegal during the Prohibition era
Volstead Act
The total number of all goods and services produced by citizens in a single year is called the
Gross National Product
To help stabalize the European economy following WWI, the U.S. established the
Dawes Plan