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This act served as a way to assimilate the Native Americans
What is the Dawes Act?
This writer highlighted the decadence of the Jazz Age and revealed it to be a second Gilded Age in The Great Gatsby .
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This sector of the American economy suffered from overproduction once WWI ended
What is the agricultural sector?
This refers to the fear of foreigners bringing communism and anarchism to America.
What is the Red Scare?
The period of time is when the first 15 major reforms were started un FDR
What are the First 100 Days?
This Populist-turned-Democrat gave the Cross of Gold Speech to fight for inflation
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This writer wrote about the problems caused by the Dust Bowl for the average Okie
Who is John Steinbeck?
This is the name of the day when the Stock Market crashed
What is Black Tuesday?
This refers to the women who challenged traditional values by smoking, drinking, and listening to black musicians
Who are flappers?
This was Roosevelt's first act as president and was done to begin the process of regulation on banks
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
Promoted by Teddy Roosevelt, this act gave power to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate railroad shipping rates
What is the Hepburn Act?
This Mississippi writer wrote about life in the Delta
Who is William Faulkner?
Along with volunteerism and rugged individualism, this was Hoover's economic policy to fight the Great Depression through the use of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
What is Trickle Down Economics?
This is the name of the trial that concerned the rights of teachers to teach evolution in the classroom
What is the Scopes Trial?
This refers to the policy that paid farmers to not overproduce - It was done to balance supply and demand issues
What is the AAA?
The United States used Big Stick Diplomacy to convince this country to give Panama its independence.
Who is Colombia?
This writer highlighted the experiences of Black, Southern women - particularly in Florida
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
Even though factory workers made good money, many of them found themselves in massive debt due to this spending habit
What is buying on credit?
Along with movie theaters, this invention promoted a sense of mass culture
What is the radio?
This Act brought electricity to much of the South.
What is the TVA?
This supreme court case determined that there are times when the need for public order outweighed First Amendment Protections
What is Schenck v. United States (1919)?
This writer questioned “What happens to a dream deferred?” while leading the way for black authors to write about themselves.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This term refers to the act of taking out loans from stock brokers to purchase stocks with the hopes that they will increase in value
What is "buying on margin?"
These types of laws were used to limit the amount of Catholics and Jews entering America.
What are immigration quotas?
(National Origins Act of 1924)
Go get cozy with FDR, for he used these talks to inform the public of his reforms
What are Fireside Chats?