1920s Society
Mass Culture (1920's)
Common culture that arose in the 1920s centered around Radio and Cinema?
Booker T. Washington
Who is the Black leader who advocated self improvement and accommodation of segregation?
KKK
What is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group?
Cause of the Great Depression
New Deal
What are a series of reforms enacted by the FDR with the goal of ending the Great Depression.
The Lost Generation
American writers who became disillusioned with American society?
W.E.B. DuBois
Who is the Black leader who founded the NAACP and opposed Booker T. Washington?
Nativism
What is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
Dust Bowl
What is the nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust storms?
Social Security Act
What is the system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children and pensions for retirees?
The Harlem Renaissance
What is a period of African-American achievements in art and music and literature>]?
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
What is the Restoration tribal ownership of lands, recognition tribal constitutions and government?
Growth of the 2nd KKK
What is the playing into fears of immigrants?
Other Causes for the Great Depression
What is factory overproduction, wealth inequality, bank failures, overuse of credit, stock speculation.
FDIC
What is the government agency that insures customers' deposits if a bank fails?
Prohibition
What is the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited?
The Progressive Amendments
What are the 16, 17, 18, and 19 amendments?
Northern KKK Targets
What are Catholics, Jews, and Orthodox?
Deflationary Spiral
What is a downward price reaction to an economic crisis leading to lower production, lower wages, decreased demand, and still lower prices?
Securities and Exchange Commission
What is the agency that monitors the stock market and enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds?
Flapper
What is young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
Marcus Garvey
What is an African American leader who advocated a return to Africa movement.
The National Origins Act
What is the severe restriction of immigration?
Hooverville
What are Shantytowns composed of the poor and jobless?
Civilian Conservation Corps
What is the New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects?