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American poet in England; described postwar world as a barren wasteland drained of hope and faith. Wrote The Wasteland
Who is T. S. Elliot?
Philosophy based on the belief that Africans share common bonds and are a unified people. Adopted this to break from colonial rule
What is Pan Africanism?
FDR's Wife and New Deal supporter. Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws. She also worked for birth control and better conditions for working women
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This program controlled production, set prices, wages, and working conditions.
What is National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?
A series of dust storms in the Central U.S caused by many years of bad farming techniques. It caused many farmers to move west as well as remove the top soil.
What is the Dust Bowl?
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
A strong first lady who supported civil rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Relief, Reform, Recovery: FDR's New Deal response to the Great Depression
What are the 3 Rs?
Federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. the New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops.
What is Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
United States government agency created as part of the National Housing Act of 1934. Insured loans made by banks and other private lenders for home building and home buying.
What is the Federal Housing Administration?
One of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novel Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is John Steinbeck?
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
President Franklin Roosevelt's precursor of the modern welfare state (1933-1939); programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insureance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; increased power of the state and the state's intervention in U.S. social and economic life.
What is the New Deal?
This allowed the banks to reopen and it gave the president the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange. It also took the U.S off the gold standard and introduced FDIC.
What is Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act?
Withdrawal of American troops from foreign nations (especially Latin America) to improve international relations and unite western hemisphere.
What is the Good Neighbor Policy?
United Mine Workers of America leader who organized the coal miners strike.
Who is John L. Lewis?
Many poor urban blacks turned to him. He was head of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and he urged black economic cooperation and founded a chain of UNIA grocery stores and other business
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This man was a strong, and possibly the most threatening, opposition to FDR's New Deal
Who is Huey Long?
A governmental legislation created to give money to those in need. It created a federal insurance program based on taxes from employees and employers throughout people's careers.
What is Social Security Act?
Government scandal involving a former U.S. Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921; symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Lost the election to the Woodrow Wilson. Shifted from not supporting New Deal to supporting New Deal
Who is Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes?
"Indian New Deal" 1934 tried to restore the tribal basis of indian life, Government legislation that allowed the Indians a form of self-government and thus willingly shrank the authority of the U.S. government. It provided the Indians direct ownership of their land, credit, a constitution, and a charter.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression
What is the Brain Trust?
This was a government legislation that dealt with workers and unions. Forbade "yellow dog contracts" & ensured the freedom to from unions.
What is the Norris-La Guardia Act?
The name commonly given to refugees from the Great Plains seeking to escape the dust bowl
What are Oakies?