1920s
If you could sum up Harding's presidency into one word, it would be...
scandal
2 impacts of the growing demand for cars
road system improved, middle-class tourism, general + impact on related industries
hands off approach to gov't regulation of the economy
laissez faire
name of FDR's plan to cope with the Great Depression
New Deal
an illegal bar during Prohibition
a speakeasy
Harding's campaign slogan
"return to normalcy"
6 million African Americans moved north between 1916 and 1970. Give 2 reasons.
1. escape racism and violence
2. jobs!
1. stock market crash
2. underconsumption
3. overproduction
4. too much debt
5. lack of gov't regulation
how FDR let the nation know that he and the federal gov't cared about them and explain his plan to deal with the crisis
fireside chats
to execute without a trial
lynch
Which amendments established and repealed Prohibition?
18/21
Describe 3 different changes embraced by the flappers (mods).
shorter/more revealing dresses
shorter hair
swore/smoked in public
independent/manly attitude
tax cuts for the wealthy and business owners, hope is they will hire workers or expand their businesses which will help the working class
3 major criticisms of the New Deal
1. did too little
2. did too much - gave too much power to federal gov't
3. cost too much $
4. didn't end the Depression
nickname for the shantytowns that popped up outside of towns and cities during the Great Depression
Hoovervilles
nativist legislation that greatly restricted the # of immigrants who entered the nation in 1921/24
Why did many question the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
Was it b/c of the Red Scare?
Was it b/c of the rise of nativism and they were immigrants?
What was the immediate political impact of how Hoover handled the Bonus March?
He lost the election for a 2nd term (landslide).
packing the court with sevearl new, pro-New Deal members
The belief that ff you work hard enough, you will succeed.
rugged individualism
name of the series of race riots that spread across the nation in 1918-19 and left 38 dead/500 injured
Red Summer
founder of Planned Parenthood and $$ for research into the creation of "the pill"
Margaret Sanger
major mistake by Hoover, a high protective tariff passed in 1930, made the global depression even worse
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Schechter (Poultry Co) v. USA
Christian group that became popular during the 1920s - fundamentalist, literal interpretation of the Bible