Module 8 - Roaring 20's
These were underground illegal bars where people would drink during Prohibition.
What were speakeasies or blind pigs?
This was the day the bottom fell out of the market.
What is Black Tuesday?
This was the name for when FDR would speak to the American people over the radio.
What were FDR's fireside chats?
This New Deal program grants old age insurance, unemployment compensation, aid to families, etc.
What is the Social Security Administration (SSA)?
This was the reason more Americans went to the movies during the Great Depression.
What was to escape from their everyday lives?
People would "buy now, pay later" by buying goods over an extended period, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase, called this.
What is an installment plan?
This is what happened to the price of crops in the 1920's.
What is prices declined?
This paid farmers to leave their fields unseeded and to destroy crops/livestock.
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This New Deal Program created the most jobs, including jobs for artists & musicians.
What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This was a bill that proposed that WWI veterans receive their bonuses early.
What was the Patman Bill?
This was the name given to the young, liberated woman of the Roaring 20's.
What is flapper?
This is the event where federal troops attacked WWI veterans, a PR nightmare for President Hoover.
This New Deal agency regulates the stock market.
What is the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)?
This ended the Great Depression.
What is ramping up World War II production?
This New Deal Program put thousands of young men to work planting trees, working in the national parks, etc.
What was the CCC?
This organization was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1909 to protest racial violence and fight for equal rights for African Americans.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
This raised tariffs to the highest they had ever been. This backfired.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
These two New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional.
What were the NIRA and AAA?
The role of this New Deal agency is to resolve conflicts between workers and employers.
What is the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)?
He was the first pilot to successfully fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
A Jamaican-born immigrant who founded the "Back to Africa" movement, believing that the only African Americans could be truly free was to move back to Africa.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
These were at least of the causes of the great depression.
What are buying on margin, a crisis in the farm sector, speculation, credit, uneven distribution of income...?
This is one reason why the New Deal historically significant.
What were: expands the role of the federal government, improves morale, etc...?
This Hoover plan authorized as emergency funds to banks, railroads, insurance companies, etc. that would “trickle down” to the poor. It was too little, too late.
What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
This was the famous Tennessee trial that was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society.
What was the Scopes "Monkey" trial?