Improved production in this area cause families to leave rural areas and move to urban areas in search of jobs.
What is agriculture?
100
This insured people's deposits in banks up to 5,000 dollars when it was first formed.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
100
This Act provided for money for senior citizens and the disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
100
This group, although not normally associated with anti-immigration sentiments, was extremely anti-immigration in the 1920's.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
This act was originally used against labor unions instead of big business.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
200
These on the Great Plains in the 1890's and 1910's, caused many farmers to move to urban areas for a new start.
What are droughts?
200
A relief effort for the unemployed meant to provide short term employment in the first one hundred days.
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)?
200
This was created to assist farmers meet mortgage payments.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
200
This act established quotas at 3% of what immigrants were already in the country.
What is the 1921 Immigration Act also known as the Emergency Quota Act?
200
This philosophy indicated that businesses that were strong were meant to survive and smaller, weaker businesses were meant to be bought be bigger ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Cities were able to provide a pull factor with stores, lights, and entertainment.
What is urban culture?
300
This reorganized banks and shut down those that were considered not viable.
What is Emergency Banking Relief Act?
300
This guaranteed the rights of unions to organize and collectively bargain.
What is the Wagner Act?
300
This act allowed the government to deport immigrants who were suspected of being anarchists or advocating revolution.
What is the 1918 Alien Act?
300
This was one of the most violent strikes in United States history at a steel plant that was broken up by a combination of private detectives and federal forces.
What is Homestead Steel Strike?
400
This major conflict created many jobs which caused many people to move to urban areas for these jobs.
What is World War I?
400
This was established with the idea of providing low cost housing.
What is Federal Housing Act (FHA)?
400
This set a minimum wage, a maximum number of hours in a work week, and set the minimum age for labor at sixteen.
What is Fair Labor Standards Act?
400
During World War I, these two ethnic groups were discriminated against throughout America.
Who are the Germans and Irish?
400
This private group was used by Big Business to break up strikes by labor unions.
Who are the Pinkerton's?
500
In 1897, this invention made it easier to get around in urban areas making them more attractive.
What is electric trolley?
500
This provided for the restructuring and acquisition of affordable home mortgages.
What is the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)?
500
This created relief for industries as well as labor with various projects including dams, highways, and public projects.
What is Public Works Administration (PWA)?
500
This Act allowed the Post master to ban the movement of foreign periodicals and newspapers by mail if they were deemed offensive.
What is the 1917 Trading with the Enemy Act?
500
This Supreme Court Case limited the ability of states to regulate railroads.