Black Tuesday, October 29th 1929.
The market bubble bursts with a panic sell off of 16 million shares of stock.
What is THE STOCK MARKET CRASH?
100
where americans would go to/stand in order to get food during the depression
What are soup/bread lines?
100
What were the goals of FDR’s New Deal?
(hint the 3 R's)
What is relief, recovery and reform?
100
1925 Trial that caused a conflict between science & religion when the topic of evolution was taught in schools
What is the John Scopes trial?
100
set of programs/reforms created by FDR to help the American people recover from great depression.
What is the New Deal?
200
Many Americans were living beyond their means during the 1920’s. They often bought goods on ___________ an arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for purchases.
What is CREDIT/installment buying?
200
How President Hoover told the people to deal with depression
What is rugged individualism, give $ to big business (trickle down theory)
200
this new deal reform was created to insure peoples savings$ in the bank.
What is the FDIC?
200
FDR can be criticized for his attempt to appoint more supreme court justices. Which constitutional principle was he violating?
What is separation of powers/checks & balances?
200
1920's period when African Americans made noteworthy works of art & literature
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
____________means that the buyer would put down some of his own money, but the rest he would borrow from a broker to purchase the stock.
What is buying on margin?
300
WW1 veterans demanded payment of bonus's due to them for war service.
What is bonus army?
300
the _____ days refers to when FDR took 1ST took office with a flurry of New DEAL activity's
What is 100 DAYS?
300
type of government FDR was criticized for trying to create by putting more government controlls on business/society
What is socialism?
300
migration farmers who moved to California in search of work
What are okies?
400
availability of so many consumer goods, such as electric appliances, radios and automobiles, offered to make life easier BUT NOT enough people buying them
What is overproduction/underconsumption?
400
communities for people who lost their homes. lived in shacks made out of cardboard, tin, or crates
What are Hoovervilles?
400
Name at least 1 new deal program FDR put in place that gave construction jobs immediately to men
What is Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C), Works Progress Administration (W.P.A)?
400
System of insurance for elderly, unemployed, & disabled. Gave assistance to dependent children & spouses (pension/welfare)
What is the social security act?
400
people were afriad of widespread support for groups promoting international anarchy and communism
What is the red scare?
500
high tax on U.S imports. therefore decreased international trade
What is Smoot-Hawley Tariff ?
500
7 years drought, dust storms that swept across Great Plains
What is the dust bowl?
500
Roosevelt believed if he appointed more Supreme Court Justices, New Deal programs will slide through the courts. This is known as.....
What is the Court Packing Plan?
500
This agreement made by president Warren Harding outlawed war except for in cases of self-defense therefore reducing world tensions
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
500
President Roosevelt’s speeches to the American public on the radio