Commie Scum & Immigration (Not enough questions for their own categories)
This is the name of the communist revolution in Russia in 1917.
What is, the Bolshevik Revolution
This is the early-20th century movement that advocated the improvement of human gene pool reproduction and even sterilization of ‘defective’ individuals.
What is, the eugenics movement
This is the name for the stock market crash on October 29,1929
Who was the Democratic president that advocated government intervention in the economy to help address the problems of the Great Depression?
Who is, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This is the name of the trial in 1925 in which John Scopes allegedly taught evolution in school.
What is, the Scopes Trial
This the name for the wave of communist paranoia that swept over the United States in the late 1910s and 1920s.
What is, the Red Scare
This is the racist group that grew the popularity in the 1920s and opposed any ‘un-American’ groups—most notably Jews, Catholics, and Blacks.
What is, the Ku Klux Klan
This is the pro-free market president in office during the Great Depression
Who is, Herbert Hoover
Whose interventionist theories did the Democratic president during the Great Depression draw from?
Who is, John Maynard Keynes?
This labor bargaining committee was formed within the AFL in 1935.
What is, the Committee of Industrial Organization?
These are the Italian anarchists that were executed based on faulty evidence for the murder of a guard and paymaster.
Who are (were?), Sacco and Vanzetti
This is the name of Lewis Terman’s intelligence test that, at the time, misled many and believing that Western Northern Europeans were intellectually superior to the rest of the world.
What is, the Stanford-Binet IQ test?
Speculation buying, overproduction in manufacturing, margin buying, overproduction in agriculture, and bank runs were all contributing factors to what event?
This conservative opponent of the New Deal criticized it as a socialist plot
Who is, Al Smith
This is the name of the act in 1935 that guaranteed the rights of labor to organize and collectively bargain.
What is, the Wagner Act?
To where did most Midwesterners migrate?
Where is, California (it's out West. Over yonder.)
This individual improved the German economy while increasing war spending while the U.S. was struggling financially in the 1930s.
Who is, Adolf Hitler
This is the term used to describe individuals rushing to banks to withdraw money and causing banks to default.
What is, bank run OR run-on banks
This was one far-left opponent of the New Deal which felt it did not go far enough toward socialism.
Who is, Upton Sinclair?
What is the term used to describe when the government spends money doesn’t have by borrowing from private and foreign lenders, as well as the treasury?
What is, deficit spending?
Which immigrant group grew substantially after the Immigration Act of 1824, which limited immigration?
Who are, Latin Americans
What were two groups that people in the 1920s commonly felt should be sterilized?
What are, criminals and the mentally disabled
What was Herbert Hoover's general approach to solving the Great Depression?
What is, charity (or having citizens take care of citizens)
This is the name of the insurance plan that provided compensation for individuals who may have lost money when a bank fails.
What is, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
What was the term used to describe the type of economics that focuses on increasing overall market demand by providing employment temporarily through government spending?
What is, demand-side economics?