Demagogues
This critic of said FDR should use force if necessary to get everyone in line with his New Deal programs. His popularity declined during the 1930s it became obvious he was an Anti-Semite and a supporter of Mussolini
Who was Father Charles Coughlin
What group of people were forced out of their migrant jobs in California and other states not affected by the Dust Bowl?
Who were Mexican immigrants?
The AAA and the NRA?
What is Recovery?
What act ended prohibition?
What was the Beer Wine Revenue Act (also the 21st Amendment)
What minor political party made huge gains in America during the Great Depression (with many later regretting their decision to join that party)?
What was the American Communist Party?
This started for the first time in America when Russia became communists and Americans worried immigrants would spread communism to the USA
Women became less conservative as these young ladies dressed like the models in the fashion magazines they could afford (thanks to the advertisements in the magazine).
Who were the flappers?
The day the American Economy died.
What is Black Tuesday, Oct 29, 1929?
What Second New Deal Program did FDR create in response to Francis E. Townsend's complaints?
What was social security?
European immigrants and their descendants living in the region were greatly helped by New Deal legislation
Where is the north east?
The WPA?
What is relief?
What act created FDIC (insuring Americans' bank deposits?
What was the Glass Stegall Act?
Which of the following did not become new supporters of the democratic party during the Great Depression:
1. the working class; 2. the poor; 3. European ethnics living in the cities and elsewhere; 4. African Americans in the South; 5.Members of labor unions; 6. Jewish and Catholics
Who were African Americans living in the South?
This attorney general's raids targeted immigrants and their possible connections to government subversion in America.
What were the Palmer Raids?
The first Great Migration of African Americans during WW I to northern cities caused this explosion of art in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Americans used this type of purchasing for the first time in the 1920s as more and more appliances became available to them, which put them in more debt than they'd ever been in.
What is credit?
Who became very popular for saying that the elderly should be given $200 month from the government
Who was Francis E. Townsend?
What group of people held almost 50 lower cabinet positions in FDR's White House?
Who were African Americans?
FDIC?
What is reform?
What act caused other nations to increase the price of American products being sold in their country?
What was the Hawley Smoot Tariff (Act of 1930)?
FDR scaling back some of his programs in 1936 and Social Security taxes caused what to happen in 1937?
What was a recession?
This group became pretty popular during the 20s thanks to the movie "Birth of a Nation" and their newly added anti-immigrant platform.
What was the KKK?
The Trial of Century happened as small town USA tried to keep this modern science out of it's schools, especially Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
What was the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Buying stock for just the purpose of inflating it's value, and not for a long term investment.
What is overspeculation?
What former Louisiana governor's "Share Our Wealth" slogan made him very popular. He wanted each American to be given $5000.
Who was Huey Long?
What group of African Americans were hurt by the limits placed on farming with the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Who were sharecroppers?
The Securities and Exchange Act and Social Security?
What if reform?
Two answers required!!
What acts were created to help increase the prices of crops and goods by forcing farmers and factories to produce less!!??
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Recovery Act?
What has been the long term complaint of the New Deal?
The Supreme ruled in Buck V Bell that states could sterilize the "feeble minded" in this effort to improve America's gene pool.
What was Eugenics?
Men and women violated the law as they went to these to buy and drink alcohol illegally.
What were speakeasies?
Factories and farmers didn't slow down production after WW I ended resulting in this cause of the Great Depression
What is over-production? (Which causes prices and therefore, profits to drop!)
In 1935, who said that Huey Long was the most dangerous man in America?
Who was FDR?
The 1934 Johnson O'Malley Act - funded states to provide Healthcare, welfare, and education improvements for what group of people?
Who were Native Americans?
The CCC?
What act protected labor unions, causing a huge increase in unions and their power?
What was the National industrial Recovery Act or Wagner Act)?
What term was used to describe the practice of people running to their bank, to withdraw all their money, when they heard the bank might be in trouble?
What is a "bank run"?
Racism and the a Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities caused these to occur.
What was Red Summer or Race Riots?
These people, like Al Capone, used Prohibition to make a fortune in the smuggling of alcohol during the 1920s and early 1930s.
Who or what was the mafia or organized crime?
This tariff sparked retaliatory tariffs from other nations, which caused those nations to purchase fewer American products
What was the Smoot Hawley Tariff?