Terms
The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
The New Deal
A time of booming business, lots of new entertainment like Jazz Age music, and new technologies.
Roaring 20's
Who was the trumpet player who influenced the development of jazz during the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstrong
New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
President of the US during Great Depression and World War II
Franklin Roosevelt
President of the US during Great Depression and World War II
Fireside Chats
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
The Harlem Renaissance
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)
Charles Lindbergh
helped the elderly with retirement, helped families with dependent children, the disabled, and the unemployment compensation system.
Social Securities Act
FDR is related to what other famous President?
Teddy Roosevelt
FDR implemented his New Deal legislation and passed 15 major proposals
100 Day's
A time of utter economic disaster, started in the United States in 1929.
The Great Depression
First African American woman to get a pilot's license
Bessie Coleman
New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power
Tennessee Valley Authority
FDR was in a wheelchair because he contracted what illness?
Polio
The term bootlegging involved what illegal substance?
Alcohol
Repeal of prohibition (18th Amendment)
President of USA during the Start of the Great Depression. Reacted slowly
Herbert Hoover
This New Deal program offered people employment building roads and schools.
Works Progress Adminstration (WPA)
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situation in which a government spends more money than it takes in
Deficit spending
A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms in the early 1930s
The Dust Bowl
"Kingfish" Rep. senator of Louisana; pushed "Share Our Wealth" program and make "Every Man a King' at the expense of the wealthy; assassinated
Huey Long
established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and included banking reforms
Glass-Steagal Act
On what coin would you see FDR's face?
Dime