The US in the Great War
The selective service act was designed to do what?
draft of young men into military service.
This 1925 Tennessee trial pitted modern science against fundamentalist religion over the teaching of evolution.
Scopes Trial
Daily Double- October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed, is known by this name.
Black Tuesday
FDR’s informal radio addresses used to reassure and inform the American public.
Fireside Chats
President whose term was marred by the Teapot Dome scandal.
Warren G. Harding
This 1918 law made it illegal to criticize the government, flag, or military during wartime.
The Sedition act of 1918
the Volstead Act was the tool used to enforce which law?
Prohibition of Alcohol
This ecological disaster of the 1930s devastated the Great Plains with severe drought and dust storms.
Dust bowl
The nickname for the numerous new government programs created under FDR (e.g., WPA, CCC).
Alphabet Agencies
Secretary of the Interior convicted of accepting bribes in the Teapot Dome scandal.
Albert Fall
This Supreme Court case (1919) upheld the Espionage Act, establishing the “clear and present danger” test.
Schenck v. United States
The practice of buying stocks with borrowed money, hoping prices would rise.
Buying "on margin"
Hoover’s belief that people should succeed through their own efforts, not government aid was called what-
Rugged Individualism/ Laissez Faire
FDR’s controversial 1937 plan to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
"court packing"
What Al Capone eventually went to prison for
Tax Evasion
Wilson’s postwar vision for peace, outlined in this set of 14 points, proposed this new international organization.
League of Nations
What was the hope for, and the unintended consequence of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff
americans would buy american made things. Caused a trade war and global trade to decrease by a LOT (40 percent)
Describe the bonus army, who they were, what happened
marched in washington DC for bonuses, met with tanks, soldiers, gas.
Louisiana Senator who proposed a “Share Our Wealth” program to tax the rich and guarantee income.
Huey Long
The Spirit of St. Louis was an airplane that flew non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean to land in Paris. Who was it's pilot?
Charles Lindberg
This secret German proposal to Mexico, promising lost territory, helped push the U.S. into WWI.
Zimmerman Telegram
This 1928 international agreement sought to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Economist who argued for government spending to stimulate demand during economic downturns.
John Maynard Keynes
FDR’s first major action as president—a 4-day shutdown of banks to restore public confidence.
his Bank Holiday/ Emergency Banking Relief Act
All of the following were popular dances of the 1920’s except for what?
The Electric Slide