Great Depression
The event that caused farming in the midwest to be nearly impossible in the 1930s
Dust Bowl
This holiday-the first thing Roosevelt did when he got in office
Banking Holiday
The federal work program that put 8 million people to work
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
"Rosie the Riveter" encouraged women to do this
Work
This was the policy of the United States regarding the spread of communism in the '50s
Containment
People who could not afford the full stock price did this
Buy on margin
These were the first direct addresses to a mass amount of people from the President
Fireside Chats
Social Security
FDR defended this act by saying "if your neighbors house is on fire you don't ask them to pay for the hose"
Lend Lease Act
Red Scaring senator from Wisconsin
Joseph McCarthy
This tariff spiked prices on nearly every natural resource
Smoot-Hawley tariff
The homeowners refinancing act (1933) created this federal agency to refinance endangered home loans
Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
This Senator started the share our wealth movement in 1934
Huey Long
Civil rights campaign born from WWII
Double V campaign
The process or racially discriminating home loans in certain areas
Red lining
Hoover pushed this 1932 act through congress in order to balance the federal budget
Revenue Act of 1932
The main goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
Raise prices of produce
"The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse" during the New Deal
4 conservative Supreme Court Justices
The Korematsu ruling introduces this doctrine into the American Legal system
National Security
The targeting of gay people by the HUAC is known as the
Lavender Scare
Herbert Hoover's belief that the government and businesses must work together to solve problems
Voluntarism
Housing projects built by this agency were segregated by race
Public Works Administration (PWA)
The court case in which SCOTUS ruled that Washington had the right to set a minimum wage law
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish (1937)
This labor leader who threatened a march on Washington was important in the enacting of executive order 8802
A. Phillip Randolph
The civic duty of consumption is driven by a fear of this
Recession/Depression/Communism