The Roaring Life of the 20s
a famous trial lawyer who defended John T. Scopes during the Scopes Trial
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at the time, the most widely used barometer of the stock market's health; a measure based on the stock prices of 30 representative large firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange
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sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which the government achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded
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the nickname for October 24, 1929, when a massive sell-a-thon began and wealthy financiers began buying stocks in hopes of reversing a trend
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this law empowered the President through the Treasury Department to reopen banks that were solvent and to assist those that were not
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concert music composer who merged traditional elements of music with American jazz, thus creating a new sound that was identifiably American
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established the highest protective tariff in United States history, it was designed to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition
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the president's wife, she was a social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills
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in 1924, Congress rewarded them with certificates redeemable in 1945 for $1,000 each
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hired actors to perform plays across the land
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became the best-known expatriate author for his novels 'The Sun Also Rises' and 'A Farewell To Arms'
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plagued by dust storms and evictions, thousands of farmers from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado was nicknamed this
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became America's first female cabinet member and played a major role in creating the Social Security system
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New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt versus President Hoover set this stage
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passed in March 1933 to refinance many mortgages in danger of going unpaid
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a novelist, poet, and Jamaican immigrant, and became a major figure whose militant verses urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination
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in 1932, Hoover signed this into law where mortgage rates were lowered for homeowners and farmers were allowed to refinance their farm loans and avoid foreclosure
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perhaps the most famous film from the 1930s, and one of the most popular of all time, it offered pure escape from the hard realities of the Depression
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along with 'It Happened One Night' and 'Gone With The Wind', a classic film that debuted during the Great Depression
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to enlist their support, the NRA outlawed child labor, set maximum hours, and required a minimum wage
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a female blues singer, perhaps the most outstanding vocalist of the decade, in 1927 she became the highest-paid black artist in the world
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also called the Bonus Expeditionary Force, these World War I veterans and their families arrived in Washington, D.C., to support a bill under debate in Congress
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along with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an agency established by the federal government to regulate banking and investment activities
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in 1925, its total value was $27 billion, but by September 1929, that figure skyrocketed to $87 billion
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was designed to protect the right of collective bargaining and to serve as a liaison between deadlock industrial and labor organizations
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