Roaring 20s
This constitutional amendment expanded political participation for women in 1920.
What is The 19th Amendment?
He was President in 1928. After the stock market crash in 1929 many Americans blamed him for not doing enough to help the American people during the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover
In his 1932 presidential campaign, he promised the American people a New Deal.
Who is FDR?
New Deal policy that provided insurance for deposits made into bank accounts
What is the FDIC?
Criminal activities (such as running speakeasies) carried out by structured groups like gangs (mafia, mob) that became prominent during Prohibition.
What is Organized Crime?
People who challenged the traditional roles of women in the 1920s
Who are the flappers?
This patriotic group of WWI veterans protested by camping in Washington D.C. with their families until their protest was shut down by President Hoover and General MacArthur.
What is the Bonus Army?
This 1933 New Deal initiative sought to improve infrastructure, provide hydroelectricity, and promote economic development in the rural south.
What is the TVA?
These makeshift communities of tents and shacks, named derisively after the U.S. president, were a symbol of the poverty and homelessness that grew during the early years of the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
A purchasing method that became popular in the 1920s, allowing consumers to buy expensive items by making a small down payment followed by regular small payments over time.
What are installment plans?
A time of widespread fear that communists were infiltrating the United States after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
What is the Red Scare?
Passed under Hoover's administration, this was an attempt to help American businesses early in the Great Depression. It backfired as European countries protested this act by raising their own versions of these, and ultimately this reduced world trade by 40%.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
This New Deal program provides insurance when workers become disabled
What is Social Security?
Hoover relied on volunteer organizations like these to provide help to starving Americans during the Great Depression
What are breadlines and soup kitchens?
This name was give to an African American section of New York City that witnessed a rebirth of art, music and literature during the 1920s and created the Jazz Age
What is Harlem Renaissance?
The biggest reason pulling African Americans North for the Great Migration
What are jobs?
This risky financial practice, characterized by buying stocks in hopes of quick profits, contributed to the economic instability that led to the Great Depression.
(This might include buying on margin where you purchase stocks with borrowed money from a broker, but that is not the term I'm looking for here)
What is speculation (or overspeculation)?
This New Deal agency actually paid farmers to destroy their crops during the Great Depression in an attempt to raise the prices of farm goods.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Fear that Mexicans were taking jobs from Americans in the 1930s; led to deportation of both Mexican immigrants and Mexican-American citizens, which is called...
What is Mexican Repatriation?
Harding's campaign slogan to go back to pre-war policies to and to concentrate on domestic economic issues
What is Return to Normalcy?
A Black nationalist leader who advocated for African American cultural pride, self-reliance, and the return to Africa in the 1920s.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
During the Great Depression, the U.S. saw this organization grow in size and power. It would play a much larger role in the direction of the U.S. economy and it would supply direct relief to the less fortunate.
What is the Federal Government?
This New Deal program built projects such as bridges, roads, and schools
What is the Public Works Administration or the Works Progress Adminstration
When some of his New Deal programs were shut down for infringing on states' rights, FDR made this plan to change this government body. The plan was rejected by Congress. Even the American people thought that FDR was trying to gain too much power with this attempted increase in executive power.
What is Supreme Court packing?