Roaring Twenties
Who are women who were different from women "of the past"?
What are Flappers
How did FDR differ from Hoover and other presidents before him?
What is intervening in government, sending citizens aid in times of distress?
Marks the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday
Organized hate group who "came back" to target African Americans, radicals, immigrants, and Catholics.
What is the KKK?
How the New Deal was financed
What is raising taxes on the wealthy?
What are installment plans?
FDR's plan to provide economic relief to citizens.
What is the New Deal?
People were forced to live in these places when they lost their jobs and were evicted.
What are Hoovervilles?
The Red Scare is a time in which citizens feared a particular economic ideology.
What is communism?
The New Deal Program that provided assistance to those who retired at the age of 65.
What is the Social Security Act?
How the 1920s characterized economically.
What is increased consumer borrowing and spending?
Court-Packing plan
What is when FDR proposed to increase the size of the Supreme Court to ensure passage of his programs?
Hoover felt that this would help the economy
What is doing nothing?
Palmer Raids
Who is Mitchell A. Palmer? He began accusing immigrants and other citizens of being communist.
Political changes for African Americans following FDR's presidency
What is switching from the Republican party to the Democratic Party
Jim Crow Laws pushed African Americans out of the South while jobs pulled African Americans to the North.
What is the Great Migration?
Fireside Chats
What is how FDR addressed the nation and got the people to trust banks following the Great Depression?
Underlying issues in the economy that caused the Great Depression.
What is declining demand and overproduction?
Legislation that limits immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
Caused many farmers to leave the Midwest.
What is the Dust Bowl?
President who favored big businesses and laissez-faire economics
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Conservatives vs Liberals criticisms of the New Deal
Conservatives felt that it was an attempt to implement socialism.
Liberals felt it did not do enough for the poor and the elderly.
Pulls the US out of the Great Depression
What is WWII?
Tactics of the KKK
Describe the Monkey Trial.
AKA the Scopes Trial. John T. Scopes a teacher in Tennessee taught about the evolutionary theory in science which was prohibited. In Tennessee, you could only teach about religion. Scopes was fined $100 which was later overturned.