Great Depression
What did Herbert Hoover do when the free market started failing?
literally nothing lol.
FDR used this to allow people to feel closer to the government.
Fireside Chats
Why was this period known as the Gilded Age?
This period showed economic growth and industrialization but also had wealth disparity and corruption.
What did the 1920's slang "The Big Sleep" mean?
💀
This president promised to bring relief to the people suffering from the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Why was the phrase "Alphabet Soup" used as a metaphor for The New Deal?
The New Deal used many acronyms in its acts and orders.
These people were the opposite of a Captain of Industry, who used unfair and ruthless methods to get rich.
Robber Baron
Music, dancing, and art started shifting into a new decade after this event.
World War I
This cause of the Great Depression happened due to the effects of Supply and Demand
Overproduction
This event was a series of programs and reforms set up by FDR.
The New Deal
This type of people was exploited for use in jobs. Around 1 in 5 of these people were employed during the Guilded age.
Children
This cultural movement brought together black culture to reshape American culture, and to celebrate black identity.
The Harlem Renissance
What was the name of the day when the stock market crashed, causing widespread panic & selling of stocks?
Black Tuesday
Name at least ONE controversy with FDR.
FDR was presumed to be a Socialist/Communist.
FDR burned crops and slaughtered pigs to deal with overproduction.
FDR put Japanese Americans into internment camps.
FDR tried to repose a supreme court
This person saved the US from financial panic in 1907 by using his own money to buy out the banks. The Monopoly Man was also based on him.
J.P. Morgan
These people were the main cause of "Red Scares" and general paranoia in the US.
Communists
This event was a series of severe dust storms, that severely damaged agriculture.
The Dust Bowl
This corporation guarantees that the government will repay you if your bank fails.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
This person became America's first billionaire. He took crude oil and refined it to create kerosene, pafferin, and petroleum jelly
John D. Rockefeller
This president passed the Immigration Act of 1924, was very pro-business, and had a pet raccoon named Rebecca
Calvin Coolidge