Economic Issues
Buying a good but only paying a small down payment (10%) and paying off the rest of the balance over time. What is this?
installment buying
A jazz musician that gained popularity during the Harlem Renaissance.
Louie Armstrong
The fear of communism led to this social movement. There are two in history and this was the first.
The Red Scare
The day the stock market crashed. The Dow Jones Average fell 12%. What was it?
Black Tuesday
These were informal radio speeches explaining New Deal Programs.
Fireside chats
This was a way for companies to produce large amounts of goods. What was it?
mass production of goods/assembly line
Mass migration of Black Americans from the South to the North. What was this movement?
The Great Migration
This amendment made the consumption, manufacturing, and production of alcohol illegal.
Prohibition (18th amendment)
This is a phenomena when people were afraid of keeping their money in the banks, so they "ran" to the banks and took out all their money leaving the banks with nothing. What was this?
The run of the banks/bank runs
What are the three R's of the New Deal?
relief, recovery, and reform
Model T
This group fought for racial equality and protested racial violence. (one of two groups we talked about in class and is still active today)
NAACP
Short hair, revealing clothing, bold make up, smoking/drinking. These are all characteristics of what social movement?
Flappers
What were makeshift towns made from tents and fabrics for the unhoused?
Hoovervilles
Huey Long's initiative to combat New Deal that focused on taxing the rich.
Share our Wealth Program
How did the car industry impact other industries?
Helped steel, rubber, and glass. Also helped create roads and expand job opportunities.
A white supremacist group that defended fundamentalist ideas and targeted Black Americans, immigrants, and Catholics.
The KKK
This law set quotas limiting the amount of immigrants from certain countries. What was this?
the National Origins Act.
Environmental phenomena with large dust storms driving out farmers. What was this called?
Dust Bowl
What was Court Packing?
FDR's attempt to shift the Supreme Court in his favor.
After WWI, the U.S. was owed more in war debts than it owed other countries. What is this called?
creditor nation
This was a series of days of racial violence in a Northern city that started when a young Black boy accidentally swam into an all white beach.
The Chicago Race Riots
This amendment that gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
These were people who migrated out of the areas impacted by the Dust Bowl.
Okies
What is Social Security?
Pension system created in the Second New Deal to help the elderly. Still used today.