1920s
What federal agency was formed in the 1920s to track down criminals?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Which country had the strongest economy following World War 1?
Which president was the leader of the "Ohio gang?"
Warren G. Harding
What year did the stock market crash?
1929
What was the name given to areas with cardboard shacks sheltering homeless people?
Hoovervilles
What effect did automobiles have on American society in the 1920s?
Gave rise to the suburbs
What did Germany spend most of their U.S. loans on?
Paying reparations from the war
Who said, "the business of America is business?"
Calvin Coolidge
Define dole.
a government handout
Whose son was kidnapped during the 1930s?
Charles Lindbergh's
Who was the most famous gangster of the 1920s?
Al Capone
What was the U.S. foreign policy following WW1?
Isolationism
Which presdient is most blamed for the depression?
Herbert Hoover
What term describes the practice of spending more money than is recevied?
Deficit spending
What is the 21st Amendment?
The repeal of the 18th Amendment (prohibition)
Which occupational group experienced hard times throughout the 1920s?
Farmers
How was the Kellogg-Briand Pact enforced?
It wasn't
Who said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself?"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Installment Plan
What were the Great Plains called during the drought of the 1930s?
The Dust Bowl
What 2 men were found guilty of murder as a result of the Red Scare?
Sacco-Vanzetti
What did the Washington Naval Conference seek to do?
limit the growth of naval power
Fireside chats
What program established old-age pensions and unemployment insurance?
Social Security Act
What 2 New Deal programs were deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court?
NIRA and AAA
(National Industrial Recovery Act)
(Agricultural Adjustment Act)