1920s
1920s
Great Depression
New Deal
World War II
100

What President was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal

Warren G. Harding

100

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

The rise of talented African American actors, artists, musicians, and writers from Harlem, NY.

100
What are three long-term causes of the Great Depression?

Answers Vary:
1. Uneven distribution of wealth
2. Stock Market Speculation
3. Excessive use of credit
4. Overproduction
5. Weak farm economy

100

What are the three Rs of the New Deal?

Relief, Recovery, and Reform

100

Why did FDR institute the Good Neighbor Policy?

to ensure that Latin America would remain allied to the US

200

How did the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) further US isolation in the 1920s?

It renounced war

200

What innovation was largely used to spread news in the 1920s?

Radio

200

What tariff was the worst mistake of Hoover's presidency?

Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)--increased taxes on foreign goods

200

What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority?

To provide electricity and jobs to the most rural areas of the south

200

How did the US find work-arounds on the Neutrality Acts?

1. Cash and Carry Programs
2. Lend-Lease Act

300

Why did the US government pass Immigration Quotas in the 1920s?

To prevent communist ideologies from entering the US

300

How did the roles of women change in the 1920s?

Younger women had a revolution in morals, divorce rates rose, flappers, etc.

300

What happened at the Bonus March?

1000 WWI vets marched on D.C. for the promised bonus...dispersed with tear gas and tanks

300

How did the New Deal provide relief for the elderly?

They passed the Social Security Act

300

How were minorities and women impacted by the War?

Many went to work in factories, African-Americans left the south, many served in the armed forces, etc

400

Why was the 1920s a period of false economic prosperity?

Answers vary:
1. Consumerism centered around buying on credit
2. Wages never really increased
3. Buying stocks on margin
4. Farmers suffered

400

What was the most extreme example of Nativism in the 1920s?

The revival of the KKK

400

What term was given to the shantytowns that sprang up in major cities around the U.S.?

Hoovervilles

400

How did Huey Long try to alter the New Deal plans?

He proposed a redistribution of wealth--$5k to each family

400

What was the purpose of the secretive Manhattan Project?

To develop nuclear weapons

500

What was the central theme of Herbert Hoover's Welfare Capitalism?

Corporations should voluntarily work for the public good.

500

What was the year of the worst race riots in American history (in Chicago for example)

1919 "Red Summer"

500

What public work project did Hoover approve during the Depression?

Hoover Dam

500

How did FDR try to ensure that ALL New Deal Programs would pass and be kept constitutional?

He tried to pack the supreme court with justices that would favor the new deal--it failed

500

What was the Executive Order that created camps for Japanese-Americans 

Executive Order 9066