Consumer Culture
America retreated to this state after WWI.
What is a state of isolationism?
The amendment that banned the production, consumption, and sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
A policy of national abstention from foreign relations.
What is isolationism?
Homeless shantytowns named after the president.
What are Hoovervilles?
What are fireside chats?
What is the assembly line?
Illegal suppliers of alcohol.
What are bootleggers?
Businesses began to collapse when they __________ and then suffered from _________.
What is overproduced and underconsumption?
This demographic was favored for jobs over women and black Americans.
Who are white men?
New Deal program that provides retirement and job security.
What is Social Security?
America switched to this type of economy after WWI.
What is a low-production consumer economy?
The Prohibition Movement represented a more radical form of this movement.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 is known by this nickname.
What is Black Tuesday?
This caused banks to fail during the Great Depression.
What are bank runs?
New Deal organization that enlisted young men to develop national parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Making small payments each month on a bill or debt.
What are installment payments?
Bribing government officials to ignore crime.
What is racketeering?
A bill designed to bring relief to farmers, but was vetoed twice by Calvin Coolidge.
What is the McNary-Haugen Bill?
When the bank takes away your house.
What is foreclosure?
FDR received this in the election of 1936.
What is a mandate?
Consumer culture in the 1920s became apparent when luxuries slowly became _________.
What are necessities?
What Al Capone was eventually convicted of.
What is tax evasion?
Placed taxes on all goods being imported from Europe.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
When neighbors of farmers would join together to save someone's farm.
What is a penny auction?
New Deal program that was ruled unconstitutional.
What is the National Recovery Administration?