People
Longest serving president (4 terms)
Young women who went against what was socially acceptable by having short hair, wearing short skirts, going to jazz clubs, smoking, and dancing
What are Flappers?
The place where stocks are bought and sold
What is the stock market?
Program that helped older Americans and those who had lost their jobs
What is the Social Security Act?
The United States entering WWII helped make the Great Depression ______________
What is better?
Tried to fix the Stock Market Crash of 1929, but ended up causing the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Selling goods to consumers and consumers buying those good
What is consumer culture?
The worst economic period in history
What was the Great Depression?
Series of programs and projects those goals were relief, reform, and recovery for Americans
What is the New Deal?
This president's reputation was harmed by his corrupt friends who took bribes and got rich
Who was Warren Harding?
Promised Americans a return to normalcy after WWI
Who was Warren Harding?
The cultural movement in the black community that was full of creativity and identity
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Makeshift homes built in public places during the Great Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
During the Great Depression, this percent of people lost their jobs and the rest lost about 1/3 of their salaries.
What is 25%?
This president refused to serve more than two terms in office
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
Believed the U.S. government spent too much money and fought to reduce wasteful spending
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
The three things that the 1920s were known for
What are growth in businesses, increased consumer culture, and the new forms of entertainment?
Christians who stood for the basic teachings of the Bible
What are Fundementalists?
Idea that promised rewards in exchange for votes
What is a political machine?
Challenged laws that prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools
What is the Scopes Trial?
Secretary of the Treasury who helped lower taxes, pay of war debts, and businesses grow and be successful
Who was Andrew Mellon?
The four new forms of entertainment in the 1920s
What are the phonograph, radio, motion pictures, and jazz music?
Christians who wanted to update Christianity
What are Modernists?
FDR’s idea that if a justice did not retire at 70 years old, he would just add another justice to the Supreme Court that would support his ideas
What is "court packing"?
Hoover’s plan to fix the stock market by having businesses pay higher wages to employees, increasing tariffs, and raising taxes
What was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?