Name That Acronym
The AAA in 1933 and later revised in 1938
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
The president who was honored with Hoovervilles and the catch phrase "It's hoovering over us"
What is Herbert Hoover?
The set of rules that made it illegal for colored people to be in or us White only areas
What is Jim Crow Laws?
Insured bank deposits against bank failure, up to a certain level
What is FDIC?
The Era of the Flapper
What is the Roaring 20s?
The TVA in 1933
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
The President who won in 2 landsides during the Great Depression based on "The New Deal"
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This would be the first of the two times it would occur in U.S. History due to communism, socialism, anarchy, and immigrants
What is the Red Scare
Created a national system of pensions, unemployment insurance and aid to mothers with children, while opening jobs for the younger generation
What is Social Security?
The time frame for WWI
What is 1914-1918
The FDIC of 1933
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
The lady who completely transformed the role of the First Lady of the United States
What is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine would lead to this war
What is the Spanish-American War
Put unemployed, unskilled young men to work on local rural and park improvements
What is Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The time frame for WWII
What is 1939-1945?
The SEC created in 1934
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
This individual is the sole reason for the Bonus Army being thrown out of the Hoovervilles
What is Douglas MacArthur?
1920s, which Tennessean was a famous Blues singer & earned nickname "Empress of the Blues"
What is Bessie Smith?
Paid private contractors to build large-scale national projects proposed by states
What is Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This era is widely criticized as the end of morals during the 1960s-1970s but also seen as a countercultural movement
What is the Hippie Movement?
The FLSA of 1938
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
The President that Herbert Hoover would copy his policies from and helping him win in a landslide in his first election
What is Calvin Coolidge?
The nickname given to the infamous illegal actions of the President Richard Nixon
What is the Watergate Scandal?
Legalized price controls and collective bargaining for labor
What is National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
The time frame for the Vietnam War
What is 1955-1975