Roaring 20s
A risky technique involving the purchase of securities/stocks with borrowed money, using the shares themselves as collateral; paying 10% of the stock price put Americans in debt after the crash of 1929
Buying on Margin
The beginning of the Great depression
The stock market crash
In Roosevelt's first 100 days, he passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Federal Emergency Relief Agency, and more; an active presidency beginning with many relief programs for Americans
The first New Deal
what states where in the dust bowl?
Colorado, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico
Most intense outbreak of national alarm, began in 1919. access of communists in Russia, American radicals embracing communism followed by a series of mail bombings frightened Americans. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led effort to deport aliens without due process, with widespread support.
Red Scare
Homes the poor made to condemn the president during this time period
Hoovervilles
This gave the President power over the banking system and set up a system by which banks would be reorganized or reopened
Emergency Banking Relief Act
how many years did the dust blow on the southern plains ?
10
Illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition
Speakeasy
31st President of the United States, Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. Blamed for the Great Depression and beaten in 1932 by FDR
Herbert Hoover
Hired 3 million young men to work in government national parks. Most popular New Deal program, Relief/Recovery
Civilian Conservation Corps
the government handed out food to the needy in:
Bread Lines
movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
Great Migration
Democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression
FDR
Provided retirement pensions to Americans age 65 and older and benefits for the unemployed, the disabled, and dependent children, The greatest victory for New Dealers; created pension and insurance for the old-aged, the blind, the physically handicapped, delinquent children, and other dependents by taxing employees and employers
Social Security Act
helps maintain the health of the soil and controls weeds, diseases, and insects
Crop Rotation
a flowering of African American culture in the 1920s; instilled interest in African American culture and pride in being an African American.
Harlem Renaissance
October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.
Black Tuesday
These were the categories into which the New Deal was split. Relief defined by the acts implemented in the area of aid to the unemployment. Recovery put forth measures that would help aid in the speedy recovery of areas hit hardest by the depression. Reform tried to recreate areas that seemed faulty
Relief, Recovery, Reform
man made methods to bring water to the crops
Irrigration