Against Hoover and Roosevelt. Roosevelt won everything but New England and Pennsylvania.
What was the election of 1932?
100
Hoover was convinced that the US was headed for disaster and rode down Pennsylvania Ave with FDR who was soon to be sworn in as president.
What is the Interregnum?
100
Group formed by W.E.B. Dubois that worked to win positions for blacks within the labor movement.
What is the NAACP?
100
The relationship between the stock market crash and the subsequent Great Depression
The stock market crash started a chain of events that created the depression
200
9 black teenagers were taken off a freight train and arrested for vagrancy. Women accused them of rape and 9 were convicted and 8 sentenced to death.
What is the Scottsboro Case?
200
Director during the depression who's movies reflected the 99 and 1%.
Who is Frank Capra?
200
Helped farmers maintain the prices of their goods.
What is the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929?
200
Endorsed the withholding of farm products from the market. Strike began in August and spread to a few neighboring areas, but ended in failure.
What is Farmers' Holiday Association?
200
The origins and consequences of the Great Depression
The stock market crashed, which lots of people had invested in, including the banks then could not pay back their loans, causing the banks to fail
300
European Nations were borrowing money from the US before, and after the Great Depression, American Protective Tariffs made it difficult for them to sell their goods.
What is Global Depression?
300
Made Steamboat Willie and Snow White. Animator during the depression.
Who is Walt Disney?
300
Group made by Nissei in 1930 that challenged obstacles through politics. It had 6,000 members by 1940.
What is the Japanese American Citizens League?
300
The problems of unemployment and the inadequacy of relief
There was a huge unemployment rate (80% in Toledo) There was inadequate public relief, causing people to starve and have breadlines.
400
In 1932, veterans demanded that their bonus be paid immediately because of the 1924 approval of their bonus. 20,000 veterans marched into Washingto and camped out around the city until Congress paid their bonus. Violence broke out when Hoover ordered the police to clear marchers.
What is the Bonus March?
400
Tried to get businesses to voluntarily keep production up and not lay off workers. It failed. Not very liked president.
How was Herbert Hoover's presidency?
400
Attempted to unite blacks and whites in one political group to demand economic reform.
What is the STFU?
400
The impact of the Depression on minorities, working women, and the American family
Minorities lost their jobs to white men. By the end of the depression, 20% more women were working, but female industrial workers lost their jobs to men.
500
The American Communist Party supervised by the Soviets, fought in it, where General Franco took over the country. 1/3 of the Americans died.
What is Spanish Civil War?
500
Wrote the best selling book, How to Win Friends and Influence People which gave readers the message that only personal initiative was the route to success.
Who is Dale Carnegie?
500
Bill that gave loans to troubled banks, railroads and other businesses.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
500
Several groups of radical antifascists including the American communist party. Supported FDR and fought in the Spanish Civil War.
What is The Popular Front?
500
President Herbert Hoover's policies for fighting the Depression
Agricultural Marketing Act, Volunatirism, tried to use government spending to end the depression. Spending was not nearly enough in the face of such devestating problem. Proposed a tax increase in 1932 to help the government avoid defecit.