Makeshift homes where homeless communities lived
Hoovervilles
Plan to add additional Supreme Court justices to help the New Deal pass
Supreme Court Packing Plan
Plans to fix the Great Depression through laws passed by congress and president FDR
The New Deal
The name of the nationwide raids used to capture socialists, communist, and anarchists
Palmer Raids
This allowed for the sale of more consumer goods & allowed Americans to own expensive items like automobiles with interest
Credit/Installment Plans
The process that led to steady inflation and increased the cost of living after WWI
War Time Production
A period of time where people lost all their jobs and an increase in violence happened
Great Depression
Favoring native people
Nativism
This limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States
National Origins Act of 1924
This invention helped lower the prices of other the Model-T Ford and helped with Mass Production
Assembly Line
The fear Americans had about an international Communist takeover
Red Scare
The day the Stock market lost tons of value
Black Tuesday
Making or transporting illegal alcohol
Bootlegging
Places to consume illegal alcohol
Speakeasies
This trial highlighted the tensions between modern and traditional values in American Society
Scopes Monkey-Trial
The invention that helped people to live further away from work and it also helped establish suburbs
Urban Sprawl
The man-made disaster that hit farmers hard
The Dust Bowl
Program that helped young men improve national forests, public lands and parks?
Civilian Conservation Corporation (CCC)
Banning of alcohol
Prohibition
Republican, pro-business president; perception of American people did nothing
Herbert Hoover
When 2 million African Americans fled from the south for new opportunities
The Great Migration
more gov’t involvement, hardly no rights, no private businesses
Communism
Act that created jobs tackling flooding issues by creating dams to provide electricity to the Southern states?
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
This was the Stereotype for the “New Women”
Flapper
Cultural, social , and artistic, explosion among African Americans centered in Harlem
Harlem Renaissance