100

Due to the strikes in and around 1919, people began to view unionism as a threat, which lead to a decline in ----- membership

union

100
----- ---- implemented a revolutionary automobile assembly line that optimized production costs.

Henry Ford

100

The issue central to the ------ trial was whether a state could ban the teaching of evolution in public schools

scopes

100

During the early years of the Great Depression, malnutrition, eviction, and foreclosure rates all -----

increased

200

as part of the Red Scare, this Attorney General, Mitchell ------, lead raids against suspected subversive groups, often violating their civil rights.

Palmer

200
----------- buying (where a buyer makes a down payment on a product and then the seller loans the remainder of the purchase) contributed to the development of a consumer culture in the 1920s.

Installment

200

Stock prices fell and the stock market crashed on ----- Tuesday

Black

200
---------- poses a threat whenever drought affects a semiarid area like the Great Plains. Native vegetation is adapted to dry conditions, but when this plan cover is removed by farming or overgrazing, the soil is exposed to sun and wind. This created the Dust Bowl

Desertification

300

Businesses reduced ----- of union workers in 1919

wages

300

The suburbs grew more quickly than cities in the 1920s, in large part, because of the ownership of --------, which enabled those who worked in the city to commute from the suburbs to their jobs.

automobiles/cars

300

Low ------ rates made borrowing money very easy in the 1920s

interest

300

Very young, minorities, and the elderly were often the first to be ------ by companies trying to save money during the Depression.

fired

400

The ----- Plan was a plan for Germany to pay reparations after WWI by recieveing loans from the United States

Dawes

400

Many older Americans in the 1920s were shocked by the popularity of ---- music, and thought its fast rhythms contributed to the loosening of moral standards.

jazz!

400

Most conservatives at the onset of the Great Depression felt that the ----- government should let the economy stabilize itself without interfering

federal
400
The ----- ----- Act was established to lessen poverty in retirement.

Social Security

500

Private ownership of property is an essential element of a free ------ economic system

market/enterprise

500
Traditionalists in support of prohibition claimed that ------ contributed to crime, violence, and the break-up of families.

alchohol

500

------- -------- won the 1932 presidential election

Franklin Roosevelt

500

------ spending occurs when the government spends more than it receives in revenues

deficit

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