New Deal
Which part of the New Deal focused on providing immediate relief to Americans?
First
How did speakeasies identify customers and avoid cops?
Knocks, membership cards, passwords
What is a long period of rising stock prices called?
Bull Market
What pact tried to outlaw war?
Kellogg-Briant Pact
What is the name for the period of race riots that broke out in 1919?
Red Summer
What did FDR explain in his Fireside chats?
New Deal laws and acts
What did the 18th amendment prohibit the sale of?
Alcohol
Which President thought that the business cycle would eventually fix the Great Depression?
Hoover
What is the name of the process of borrowing money to invest that money in the stock market called?
Buying on margin
This act limited the number of immigrants allowed to enter the US using a quota.
Immigration Act of 1924
What did critics of the New Deal call its many acronyms?
Alphabet Soup
What is the term for used for young women with short hair and short skirts?
Flappers
What was the day that the Stock Market crashed call?
Black Tuesday
What is it called when a large amount of the same product is being bought?
Mass consumption
A combination of bad farming practices and extreme drought led to what man-made natural disaster?
The Dust Bowl
What did FDR do in his First 100 days?
Pass 15 major acts/first new deal
What music genre rose to popularity in the 1920s?
Jazz
What were Hoovervilles?
Shantytowns built by homeless people
What did Smoot and Hawley do in an effort to stimulate the economy?
Spearhead tariffs
Which US President pushed for federal intervention in the Depression?
Roosevelt
What part of the New Deal focused on reform to prevent future disasters?
Second
Who were the Italian immigrants who were sentenced to death as part of their robbery trial?
Sacco and Vanzetti
What is a bank run?
When many customers of a bank try to withdraw all of their money at the same time
What is a safety net?
Something that protects Americans from the future financial disaster
What famous jazz club only served white Americans, even though many black Americans performed there nightly?
Cotton Club