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39) What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
Public works jobs for young men
Reduced unemployment
26) Who was Clarence Darrow?
Most famous trial lawyer of day who defended Scopes
38) What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Created jobs renovating, building dams
Planned to create prosperity in the impoverished Tennessee Valley Region
27) Who was William Jennings Bryan?
Special prosecutor who was opposed to John T. Scopes teaching evolution in school
37) What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Paid farmers to grow less food
Goal was to raise food prices by lowering supply
31) What was the Harlem Renaissance?
African American literary, artistic movement
36) Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
Democrat President who led the nation through the Great Depression and was more okay with government intervention in the economy
28) What was the Scopes trial about?
It debated the evolution and the role of science/religion in school
34) What was the Dust Bowl?
Drought, windstorms hit; soil scattered for hundreds of miles, hardest hit area was the Dust Bowl (North Dakota to Texas)
29) Who were the Flappers?
Emancipated young woman with new fashions & attitudes
42) What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Created jobs (like building roads)
Employed women to sew clothes
Employed professional writers, artists, and performers
33) What was speculation?
Buying on chance of a quick profit
35) Who was Herbert Hoover?
Republican president who was cautious to have the government interfere with the economy
40) What were the Fireside chats?
FDR’s radio talks explaining New Deal measures
30) What was significant about the radio in the 1920s?
It was the most powerful communications medium of the 1920s, it provided shared national experiences
43) Who was Frances Perkins?
Secretary of labor, first female cabinet member
49) What was the Atlantic Charter?
FDR and Winston Churchill’s joint declaration of war aims
46) What were the Neutrality Acts?
They outlawed arms sales, loans to nations at war during World War 2
48) What was the Lend-Lease Act?
It allowed the US to lend or lease supplies for defense
47) What was the Selective Training and Service Act?
It was a draft where draftees would serve for 1 year in Western Hemisphere only
41) Who was Huey Long?
Critic of the New Deal and presidential hopeful who had a popular social program
44) Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
Helped organize the “Black Cabinet” of African American advisers
32) Who was Langston Hughes?
Who was Louis Armstrong?
Who was Bessie Smith?
Hughes: African American poet who described the difficult lives of the working class
Armstrong: Most influential musician in jazz history, a trumpeter who popularized scat (improvised jazz singing)
Smith: African American blues singer, perhaps best vocalist of the decade
50) How did the US respond to the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
The US declared war on Japan
45) How did FDR respond when the Supreme Court did not support every part of his New Deal program?
He proposed the “Court-packing bill,” but Congress and the press were upset with the idea. In the end justices retired and FDR was able to appoint justices without adding more judges to the court.