1920s
What President was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal
Warren G. Harding
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
The rise of talented African American actors, artists, musicians, and writers from Harlem, NY.
Answers Vary:
1. Uneven distribution of wealth
2. Stock Market Speculation
3. Excessive use of credit
4. Overproduction
5. Weak farm economy
What are the three Rs of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Why did FDR institute the Good Neighbor Policy?
to ensure that Latin America would remain allied to the US
How did the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) further US isolation in the 1920s?
It renounced war
What innovation was largely used to spread news in the 1920s?
Radio
What tariff was the worst mistake of Hoover's presidency?
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)--increased taxes on foreign goods
What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
To provide electricity and jobs to the most rural areas of the south
How did the US find work-arounds on the Neutrality Acts?
1. Cash and Carry Programs
2. Lend-Lease Act
Why did the US government pass Immigration Quotas in the 1920s?
To prevent communist ideologies from entering the US
How did the roles of women change in the 1920s?
Younger women had a revolution in morals, divorce rates rose, flappers, etc.
What happened at the Bonus March?
1000 WWI vets marched on D.C. for the promised bonus...dispersed with tear gas and tanks
How did the New Deal provide relief for the elderly?
They passed the Social Security Act
How were minorities and women impacted by the War?
Many went to work in factories, African-Americans left the south, many served in the armed forces, etc
Why was the 1920s a period of false economic prosperity?
Answers vary:
1. Consumerism centered around buying on credit
2. Wages never really increased
3. Buying stocks on margin
4. Farmers suffered
What was the most extreme example of Nativism in the 1920s?
The revival of the KKK
What term was given to the shantytowns that sprang up in major cities around the U.S.?
Hoovervilles
How did Huey Long try to alter the New Deal plans?
He proposed a redistribution of wealth--$5k to each family
What was the purpose of the secretive Manhattan Project?
To develop nuclear weapons
What was the central theme of Herbert Hoover's Welfare Capitalism?
Corporations should voluntarily work for the public good.
What was the year of the worst race riots in American history (in Chicago for example)
1919 "Red Summer"
What public work project did Hoover approve during the Depression?
Hoover Dam
How did FDR try to ensure that ALL New Deal Programs would pass and be kept constitutional?
He tried to pack the supreme court with justices that would favor the new deal--it failed
What was the Executive Order that created camps for Japanese-Americans
Executive Order 9066