Terms
Period of fear and government crackdown on communism and radicalism following the Russian Revolution
What is the Red Scare?
32nd President; introduced the New Deal to provide economic relief and reform
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)?
The sudden collapse of these that triggered the Great Depression
What is Stock Prices?
1935 law providing pensions, unemployment insurance, and disability aid
What is the Social Security Act?
Buying goods with borrowed money, a widespread practice that contributed to economic collapse
What is Credit?
Cultural movement celebrating African American arts, literature, and music in the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
31st President during the onset of the Great Depression; criticized for inadequate response
What is Herbert Hoover?
Era during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol were illegal
What is Prohibition?
Authorized government inspection of banks and financial support to stabilize system
What is the Emergency Banking Act (1933)?
FDR’s radio addresses that reassured Americans and explained his New Deal programs
What is the Fireside Chats?
Young women in the 1920s who rejected traditional norms through fashion and behavior
What is Flappers?
Prominent Harlem Renaissance poet who gave voice to the African American experience.
Wrote the poem Let America Be America Again
What is Langston Hughes?
Implementation of various programs like WPA, TVA, and Social Security Act all under this wide ranging reform
What is the New Deal?
Regulated the stock market and protected investors from fraud.
What is the Securities Act (1933) & SEC (1934)?
Photographer who captured images of suffering during the Great Depression, such as “Migrant Mother.”
What is Dorothea Lange?
Major political scandal under Harding involving bribery and oil reserves
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Senator who criticized the New Deal; proposed “Share Our Wealth” program to redistribute income
What is Huey Long?
Protest by WWI veterans demanding early bonuses; ended violently under Hoover
What is the Bonus Army?
Created FDIC and separated commercial from investment banking
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
Aimed to raise farm prices by limiting agricultural production
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
WPA, a New Deal agency that provided jobs through public works and supported the arts
What is the Works Progress Administration?
Tennessee teacher prosecuted for teaching evolution in a famous Trial
What is John Scopes?
The environmental disaster which caused a mass exodus of farmers from the Great Plains to California
What is the Dust Bowl?
Created jobs and provided electricity by constructing dams in the South
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Group of writers disillusioned by materialism and the aftermath of WWI
What is the Lost Generation?