Terms
A culture that is focused on the buying of goods and services
consumer culture
Doubtful about the existence of God
Agnostic
What program provides for retirees and the unemployed through workers' taxes?
Social Security
Clarence Darrow represented the defense in what big event?
Scopes Trial
What president tried to improve the economy but made the Depression worse?
Herbert Hoover
Shares in a business or corporation that can be bought or sold
Stock
Belief of biblical or traditional values
Conservative
What program provided work for young men and later trained them for military service?
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
During the 1920s American farmers found life difficult because of what?
overproduction
What president used the "New Deal" to get votes?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
One or more laws created by a government; the act of creating or proposing laws
Stands for the basic teachings of the bible
Fundamentalist
Promised a person up to $2,500 of their money if the bank failed.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The condition of wanting and needing a job but being unable find one
unemployment
After President Harding died who became the new president?
Calvin Coolidge
A country in which the government takes responsibility for the financial support of its people
Supports liberal views of religion or wants to update Christianity for the modern world
Modernist
Program required businesses to pay workers a minimum wage and forbade businesses from competing with each other
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
What happened when the prices on the market had risen higher than the companies were really worth?
Stock Market crash of 1929
What president spoke quietly and personally to Americans on the radio?
Roosevelt
Many Americans were concerned about entertainment's effects on people's ____________
Morality
Believed the fundamental truths of the Bible but thought the Fundamentalist and the modernists should work harder at getting along.
Indifferentists
Roosevelt felt this was necessary for the security and success of the ordinary Americans, whether or not there was a depression.
The New Deal
Roosevelt's first action to help Americans through the crisis was to _______________.
Close the banks for three days
What President believed the government should spend less money?
Coolidge