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Harlem Renaissance
intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, and literature
Hooverville
A shanty town built by the homeless during the great depression
Immigration quotas
Only allowed 2% of the number of people from each nationality to immigrate to the United States.
United States v. Butler
Congress has the power to lay taxes to the level necessary.
Hoover’s economic position
he favored policies in which government, business, and labor worked together to achieve economic prosperity.
Prohibition
illegalized the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcohol
Great Migration
the movement of many African Americans from rural areas to urban areas in hopes of finding jobs.
Fair Labor Standards Act
established minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and youth employment standards.
Roosevelt and the Supreme Court
They had a dispute in which Roosevelt lost.
Red Scare
the promotion of a widespread fear of the potential rise of communism, anarchism, and other lefist ideology.
Dust Bowl
Southern plains region going through incredible drought
Buying stock on margin
borrowing money in order to buy stock eventually led people to be forced to pull out funds in order to pay their debt which contributed to the market crash.
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude Mckay, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Jean Toomer, and Nella Larsen.
National Labor Relations Act
guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective actions such as strikes.
US political thinking of the 1930’s
they wanted to regain a prosperous economy and stay out of war.
New Deal Programs
focused on the relief of the unemployed and for the poor, recovery of the economy, and reform of the financial system.
Social conditions of the Great Depression
it brought hardship, homelessness, and hunger to millions.
Neutrality Acts
passed in order to keep the US out of war and made it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to nations in war.
Scopes Trial
The prosecution of a science who taught evolution which was illegal at the time.
FDIC
it insures deposits; supervises and examines financial institutions for safety, soundness, and consumer protection; makes large and complex institutions resolvable; and manages receivership.
New Deal
a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Roosevelt classes with the Supreme Court
Roosevelt attempted to change the size of the supreme court but ultimately failed.
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
Invalidated regulations to the poultry industry.
Consumerism
the protection or promotion of the interests of consumers.
Sacco-Vanzetti trial
he murdered somebody and believed in anarchism, he also believed that social justice would only come with the destruction of the government.