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The president who advocated for government intervention in the economy to help address the problems of the Great Depression.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
A racist group that grew in popularity in the 1920s and opposed any ‘un-American’ groups - most notably Jews, Catholics, and Blacks.
Who are the KKK?
A law creating a government insurance plan which provides compensation for individuals who may have lost money when a bank fails.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC)?
A scheme to use borrowed money to buy stocks.
What is margin buying?
A period of drought in the 1930s that devastated the agriculture of the American Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The pro-free market president in office during the beginning of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Those who said evolution was not inconsistent with religion and embraced new values and technology.
Who are Modernists?
A federal program designed to provide aid as a pension/retirement plan in addition to survivor and disabled benefits.
What is Social Security?
When many individuals rush to withdraw their money from a bank before it fails.
What are bank runs?
A period of paranoia in the 1920s, and sometimes unconstitutional persecution, to sniff out any potential communist or anarchist revolutionaries.
What is the Red Scare?
Italian immigrant anarchists that were executed based on faulty evidence for the murder of a guard and paymaster.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
Those who said the Word of God, as revealed in the Bible, took priority over all human knowledge and clung to traditional and conservative values.
Who are the Fundamentalists?
These regulations supplanted earlier acts to effectively ban all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere (an 80% reduction).
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
The central bank of the U.S.
What is the Federal Reserve?
A communist revolution in Russia in 1917.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
He was far right conservative business leader who opposed the New Deal as an alleged socialist plot that sought to undermine laissez-faire economics and American freedom.
Who is Al Smith?
An organization dedicated to fight for Black voting rights and anti-lynching laws.
Who is the NAACP?
Law that guaranteed the rights of labor (unionization) to organize and collectively bargain.
What is the Wagner Act?
When the government spends money it doesn't have by borrowing from private and foreign lenders, as well as the treasury.
What is deficit spending?
A movement in the early-1900s advocating the improvement of human gene pool reproduction and even sterilization of ‘defective’ individuals
What is the Eugenics Movement?
A British economist who believed unemployment was the root cause of the Great Depression and believed the federal government could help solve the problem.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
A public work relief program designed for unmarried young men.
Who is the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)?
Law that limited the actions of banks (how they could invest) and increased requirements for individuals to receive credit/loans.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
Economics that focus on increasing overall market demand by providing employment temporarily through government spending.
What is demand-side economics?
He was a far left reformer who argued the New Deal did not go far enough towards socialism.