Vocabulary
One or more laws created by a government; the act of creating or proposing laws?
Legislation
The condition of wanting and needing a job but being unable to find one
Unemployment
New Deal
In order to get votes, Roosevelt used ____________
Biblical or traditional views or values
A culture that is focused on the buying of goods and services
Consumer Culture
Shares in a business or corporation that can be bought or sold
Stock
Provides retirees and the unemployed through workers' taxes
Social Security
Who became President after Harding?
Calvin Coolidge
What do Modernists support?
Liberal views of religion/want to update Christianity for the modern world
The producing of a surplus of goods that results in lowered prices
Overproduction
What is the name of the group between the Fundamentalists and the modernists?
Indifferentists
Provides training for military service and gives young men jobs.
What is the main reason why American farmers found life difficult in the 1920s?
Overproduction
What religious belief is doubtful about the existence of God?
Agnostic
The practice of increasing the number of seats on a court in order to admit judges likely to further one's own ends or make decisions in one's favor.
Court Packing
Who tried to improve the economy but only made the Depression worse?
Forbids businesses from competing with each other and requires them to pay workers a minimum wage
National Recovery Administration
Who represented the defense in the Scopes Trial?
Clarence Darrow
What do fundamentalists stand for?
The basic teachings of the Bible
A country in which the government takes responsibility for the financial support of its people
Welfare State
Who represented the prosecution in the Scopes Trial?
William Jennings Bryan
The Scopes Trial was focused on the teaching of what?
Evolution