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Most Americans identified him with industrial growth, rising wages, and a cascade of affordable consumer goods. Elected in 1920.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
100
The period from 1920-1933 during which it was a federal crime to produce, sell, or transport alcohol.
What is prohibition?
100
Founded by William Simmons in 1915, this group had more than four million members by 1924.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
100
Provided that all non agricultural workers could join unions and prohibited employers from firing or otherwise coercing workers who chose to do so.
What is Wagner Act of 1935?
100
This event that caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the official beginning of World War II
What is Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939
200
Paired mass production with mass consumption by ensuring that industrial workers were optimally efficient and well paid.
What is fordism?
200
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Espoused racial separatism and the development of black business and institutions. Also published a popular news paper.
What is Marcus Garvey/ the Negro World?
200
The emotional effects of the economic crisis were felt most acutely by
What is men?
200
He interpreted his reelection as a mandate, which led him to attempt to 'pack' the Supreme Court.
Who is FDR?
200
A blueprint for the postwar global order.
What is The Atlantic Charter?
300
The world's first broadcasting system; sped the spread of consumer culture.
What is radio?
300
Young, white urban sophisticates, many of them the sons and daughters of upper-middle class professionals.
What is slummer?
300
Buoyed the prices of basic agricultural products such as wheat and corn and thus provided some immediate relief for beleaguered farmers.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act?
300
Poor rural whites from Oklahoma and other plains states.
What is Okies?
300
Gave the government wide latitude to supply defense material to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
400
Starred two white vaudeville actors who played the roles of uneducated African American migrants from the South.
What is Amos'N'Andy?
400
Stipulated that only 150,000 immigrants could enter teh country annually, and it fixed immigration numbers by country of origin in favor of British, Scandinavian and German nationals.
What is The National Origins Act of 1924?
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He created the Share-Our-Wealth Plan which called for high taxes for the wealthy, government guaranteed subsidies of $5,000 for families, and an annual minimum wage of $2,500.
Who is Huey P. Long?
400
Provided navigation, flood control, electricity, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.
What is The Tennessee Valley Authority?
400
The United States sold arms to European democracies provided they paid cash and collected the arms themselves.
What is the cash and carry agreement?
500
The federal government had illegally leased out governmental oil serves.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
500
This trial hardened the line between fundamentalists and liberals
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
500
Most vivid and publicized demonstrations of workers' surging strength. Workers expressed their dissatisfaction by striking against the companies.
What is San Francisco General Strike of 1934?
500
Theory that government should actively stimulate consumer demand by lowering interest rates and investing directly in the housing sector, agriculture, industry, interstate transportation, and science and technology.
What is Keynesian Economic Theory?
500
Deprived of food and water and driven at a relentless pace, ten thousand prisoners of war died on a grueling sixty-mile march to an abandoned U.S. base.
What is the Bataan Death March?