Postwar Tensions
This organization defended civil liberties during the Red Scare.
ACLU
What was the sudden collapse of stock prices in 1929?
Stock market crash
Communities of homeless people during the Depression.
Hoovervilles
Lines of people waiting for free food?
Breadlines
Program that provided jobs building parks and conservation projects.
Civilian Conservation Corps
A fear of communism and radical political ideas after WWI.
Red Scare
Producing more goods than consumers can buy.
Overproduction
The time period during which Roosevelt’s presidency was marked by many programs being passed.
First 100 days
Places where free meals were provided to the poor.
Soup Kitchen
Program that paid farmers to reduce production.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Government raids targeting suspected radicals and immigrants.
Palmer Raids
When people cannot afford to buy goods, slowing the economy.
Underconsumption
A group of WWI veterans who marched for early bonus payments.
Bonus Army
Massive dust storms that damaged farms in the Great Plains.
Black Blizzards
President who believed in limited government response to the Depression.
Hoover
This system limited the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S.
Quota System
What is it called when you Buy stocks with borrowed money?
Buying on the margin
Roosevelt’s overall plan to fight the Great Depression.
The New Deal
Migrants from Oklahoma who moved west during the Dust Bowl.
The Okies
President who expanded government through the New Deal.
FDR
This controversial trial involved two Italian immigrants accused of murder.
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
This tariff raised taxes on imports and worsened the global depression.
the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Hoover’s program that gave loans to banks and businesses.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
A famous novel depicting the struggles of migrant families.
Grapes of Wrath
This act strengthened labor unions and workers’ rights.
The Wagner Act