Terms
Terms
Terms
Terms
Terms
100
This is a stock market index that shows how 30 large publicly owned companies based in the United States have traded during a standard trading session in the stock market. It is often tied to the large industrial companies.
Dow Jones Average.
100
This is the foreign policy that stated America should not become entangled in the affairs of foreign countries, particularly those in Europe.
Isolationism.
100
Largely urged on by Marcus Garvey, this movement encouraged blacks to move back to the lands of their ancestral origins.
Back to Africa Movement.
100
This is a settlement of plywood, corrugated metal, sheets of plastic, and cardboard boxes. They are usually found on the periphery of cities, public parks, or near railroad tracks, rivers, lagoons or city trash dump sites. Hoovervilles are another name for these.
Shanty town.
100
This is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.
Tennessee Valley Authority.
200
This is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913.
The Federal Reserve System.
200
Racist Anti-black vigilante group, famous for their white hoods and burning crosses.
Ku Klux Klan.
200
This may be either a subsidy or a price control, both with the intended effect of keeping the market price of a good higher than the competitive equilibrium level.
Price support.
200
Funded through payroll taxes, this program ensures that retired or disable people will still receive money from the government to cover living expenses. Usually requires recipients to reach a certain age to receive benefits.
Social Security.
200
This organization mission was to fight anti-Semitism (anti-Jew) and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all.
Anti Defamation League
300
These were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable, traditional behavior.
Flappers.
300
This was an intergovernmental organisation founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Began in large part as a response to Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" and was a precursor to the United Nations.
League of Nations.
300
This is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause or position.
Propaganda.
300
Like the bread line, this was a place where people during the Great Depression could get food to eat.
Soup kitchen.
300
This is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination".
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
400
This is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
Hoovervilles. Named for Herbert Hoover who many were unhappy with how he handled the economy during the Depression.
400
This is an independent agency of the United States government charged with conducting elections for labor union representation and with investigating and remedying unfair labor practices.
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
400
This is the term for payments Germany had to make to other countries as punishment for its participation and scapegoat for blame in the First World War.
Reparations.
400
Name for illegal bars that served alcohol during the Depression.
Speakeasies.
400
This section (Article 231) of the Treaty of Versailles assigned the blame of WWI to Germany.
War Guilt Clause.
500
During the Immigration act of 1924, this was the limiting of immigrants from certain countries in europe, only allowing a certain amount to enter the country.
Immigration quotas.
500
This is the political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.
Nativism.
500
This is an agency of the United States federal government. It holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal financial laws and regulating the financial industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
500
This is the practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to profit from short or medium term fluctuations in the market value of a tradable good.
Speculation.
500
This was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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