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Changes in women's lives
What is they went to college, drove cars, began working outside of the home, and had more personal freedom.
Why was Henry Ford successful?
What is streamlined production by using standard parts.
What is WWI Veterans protesting in Washington D.C. to receive their promised Army bonus pensions early.
Unintentional Consequence to Prohibition
What is an increase in organized criminal activity and law enforcement costs.
The three phases of the New Deal
19th Amendment
What is the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.
Black Tuesday
What is the event that triggered many financial problems in the U.S. when investors tried to sell their stock, which were becoming worthless. October 29,1929.
Hooverville's
What is temporary settlement communities named after President Hoover, because the American people blamed him for the Depression.
Cause of the economic boom
What is installment buying and an unregulated stock market.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
What is the New Deal agency that helped create jobs for those that needed them. This New Deal program was responsible for the construction of Jackson Stadium, as well as many other short-term construction jobs that reduced unemployment.
Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
What is two Italian immigrants who held anarchist beliefs; were arrested, tried and executed for murder despite a lack of solid evidence. Illustrates how scared American people were with of foreigners with radical, new beliefs.
Buying on the Margin
What is the illegal practice of buying stock for 10% of the value of the stock and using the profits from the sold stock to repay the balance.
Dust Bowl
What is the event that was caused by severe drought and intense agriculture depleting the top soil during the Great Depression.
What is the response to the fear of communism in America.
Social Security Act (SSA)
What is the New Deal program provided benefits and pensions for the elderly and retired citizens of the US. This program still exists and provides welfare and health benefits to this day.
Scopes Trial
What is the Trial in Tennessee that highlighted the emerging differences between urban and rural life during the 1920's and the resulting different beliefs between conservatism and science.
Not enough people were buying the products produced in factories, causing those factories to close down, which led to higher unemployment.
Laissez-Faire
What is an economic policy where the government stays out of private business. A hands off approach.
African Americans moved to the North
What is to escape discrimination, violence, and low paying jobs.
What is to work in the industries.
FDR's New Deal Programs names as a whole
What are Alphabet Soup Programs.
Harlem Renaissance
What is the term given to the literary, artistic, musical and creative growth by African Americans during the 1920's.
Major contributing factor to the start of the Great Depression
Buying on credit causing consumer debt to rise drastically.
WWII's effects on the Great Depression
What is demand went up for ammunition and other goods needed for the war effort, so it helped pull America out of the Great Depression.
Cause of Red Scare in America
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
What is the New Deal program that insured bank deposits up to $5,000. This programs still exists and insures the banking system today.