Key Terms
Called the _______________,this described the death of over 120 people in the summer of 1919 during riots between African Americans and white people.
During this frenzied period of time, legislation focused on four main areas: banks, agriculture, businesses, and unemployment.
What is the First 100 Days?
These two Italian immigrants were accused of murder and represented America's fear of immigrants, radicalism, and socialism during the 1920s. Most historians agree they did not receive a fair trial.
Who are Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
Populist Louisiana politician that promoted taxing the wealthy and transferring payments to the working class in his "Share our Wealth" plan.
The idea of stimulus based spending by the government to promote economic growth used during recessionary periods. Oftentimes referred to as deficit spending.
What is Keynesian economics?
Advocated U.S. banks providing loans to foreign countries with the backing of the US military to extend U.S. imperialistic power most notably in Latin America.
She served in FDR's Cabinet and was the first female Cabinet member to serve in government.
Who is Frances Perkins?
This domestic terrorist organization rose to power again during the beginning of the 20th Century with anti-sematic, African American, and nativist rhetoric.
What is the KKK or Ku Klux Klan?
A trial that centered around the teaching of evolution in a Tennessee school in the 1920s, leading to a conflict between science and religion.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
These resulted in over 6,000 arrests of suspected socialists and radicals following a bombing.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This act created the FDIC, and helped to backstop the banking system of the United States during the Great Depression.
Great trumpeter from New Orleans that moved to Chicago and was an early innovator in the jazz scene.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Nine African American charged with raping 2 white women on a Southern railroad. The Supreme court vacated the sentences due to the defendants not being provided legal representation. The case became a symbol of the injustices African Americans faced in the Southern legal system.
Who are the Scottsboro Boys?
The influx of programs instituted by FDR to combat the effects of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
These were often shacks housing the homeless that were named mockingly after the President during the beginning of the Great Depression.
What are Hooverville's?
This amendment outlawed the production, and transportation of alcohol was partly motivated by anti-German sentiment during WWI.
Often referred to as the "Eyes and Ears" of President Roosevelt; she really represented the changing role of the First Lady.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
1920s cultural, artistic, and social movement in Harlem celebrating the African American experience.
Generation of artists and writers who disillusioned with society and consumerism post WWI.
Who were the Lost Generation?
This scandal occurred during the Harding Administration and concerned a corrupt Secretary of the Interior that leased government land in Wyoming to corporations for over $300,000 in bribes.
Both these acts were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court that saw the Executive Branch intervening in what the court saw as the purvey of the Legislative Branch.
What are the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act), and NRA (National Recovery Act)?
Agreement made between Teddy Roosevelt and Japan limiting Japanese immigration to the U.S. at the onset of the 20th Century.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
Wiped out many Midwesterners' farms, blowing loose top soil over the plains and further exacerbating the Great Depression.
What was the Dust Bowl?