Amendments
Big Business
New Deal Legislation
Between I and II
What ever
100
The nature of the 18th amendment made this illegal.
What is alcohol?
100
This legislation legalized collective bargaining and pickets for strikes as well as strengthening the Sherman Antitrust Act.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
100
Ensured money for retired workers who paid into it and set up care for the mentally disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
100
Warren G. Harding reestablished this economic philosophy during his presidency.
What is Laizze-Faire?
100
The throwing of a bomb into a crowd of strikers was eventually the death of the Knights of Labor.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
200
The Sixteenth Amendment allowed congress to raise funds this way.
What is income tax?
200
This prevent railroads from offering rebates and fined heavily those that die or received them.
What is Elkins Act?
200
This act reverse the Dawes Act of 1887 in order to guarantee certain rights to Native Americans.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?
200
This fear led to the deportation of many radicals in the early 1920's.
What is the Red Scare?
200
This was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine that allowed the United States to interfere in Latin American affairs in economics as well.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
300
The 17th Amendment allow for the direct election of these people.
Who are Senators?
300
This act allowed a commission to determine railroad rates for shipping.
What is Hepburn Act?
300
This act authorized the government to resettle farmers from non producing land.
What is Resettlement Act of 1935?
300
Government oil reserves were secretly leased to oil companies for financial compensation.
What is the Tea Pot Dome scandal?
300
This note contained a proposal to the Mexicans to join World War I and reclaim lost land from the Mexican American War.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
400
This stipulated conditions for the United States in Cuba to prevent annexation.
What is the Teller Amendment?
400
This allowed people to pay ten percent of a stocks value and borrow the rest as cost of the stock.
What is buying on margin?
400
This act, not created by Roosevelt, was created and gave two billion dollars to local governments.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
400
This dramatically rose in the 1920's which would eventually fuel the hardships of the depression.
What is the rise of consumer debt?
400
This was a pledge by Roosevelt and Churchill that stated that Germany would be the priority in the allies war efforts.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
500
This amendment allowed the United States to intervene in Cuban affairs if it deemed the need to do so.
What is the Teller Amendment?
500
This was created in order to regulate the trading of stocks and ensure fair practices were followed in accordance with the law.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
500
This was a recovery act intended to limit crop production with the goal being to raise the overall prices of crops.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act?
500
This was put in to place to protect American businesses early in the depression but made the situation worse.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
500
This was a meeting of the big three to determine the fate of European nations once World War II ended.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
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