20s
A minority of women in the U.S. considered modern and scandalous at the same time are called what?
Flapper girls
What is one example of literature from the 20s that showed a loss of innocence among the newer, more modern generation?
Great Gatsby
The idea that government should not get involved with the economy.
What is laissez-faire? What is capitalism?
Objections to the New Deal policies included the opinion that a free-market would ____________.
self-correct
Allows the federal government to oversee farm policy and give farmers subsidies in order to stabilize the price of crops.
What is the Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)?
FDR soothed fears and concerns of Americans across the country in ______________, which were broadcasted on the radio.
Fireside chats
Women get the right to vote in what amendment?
19th
Economic, Social, and Political issues all lead to what major event around the World?
The Great Depression
The day that stock market crashed on Wall Street.
What is Black Tuesday of 1929?
The FDIC policy is what?
Bank insurance
What group grew more violent and began persecuting Black Americans, Jews, Catholics, Immigrants, etc.?
KKK
Makes the sale and production of alcohol in the United States illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Overproduction along with a drought caused what natural disaster that affected a large portion of America.
The Dust Bowl
As banks ran out of business people began running to the banks to try and ________________________.
take out their money
Creates the program that helps Americans save for retirement by taking part of their paycheck each month to be saved by the government.
What is the Social Security Act?
When African Americans migrated from the Jim Crow south to the industrial north.
The Great Migration
Russian Immigrants who were suspected of bringing communism to America were part of the ___________ party.
Bolshevik
It started with several bombs throughout American cities that were blamed on radicals. Then Palmer started arresting thousands of innocent people because he thought they were communist or because they were foreigners. We deported over 500 people.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The Great Depression ends because of what event?
WWII
Which president believed in a Laissez-Faire approach?
Calvin Coolidge
Amendment that repeals prohibition and allows the sale and production of alcohol again in the United States.
What is the Twenty-first Amendment?
A high school biology teacher in Tennessee was fired and fined for teaching evolution on the high school
What is the Scopes Trial?
This number rose to all time highs during the Great Depression in the 1930s. 1 in 4 Americans were ____________________.
unemployed
Plan where FDR would be able to add more Supreme Court Justices to the Judicial Branch and this would allow him to nominate his own supporters to the Supreme Court.
What is the "court packing" plan?