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Gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
This event took place in 1929 and is considered the start of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday? or Stock Market Crash
A New Deal program that was an act that gave financial aid to those who were elderly and out of work, disabled, or children who were dependent.
What was the SSA (Social Security Act)?
Who used the assembly line to create the first mass-produced automobile (the Model T)?
Who is Henry Ford?
Which term was used for the region of the American mid-west that suffered a devastating drought full of huge dirt storms during the 1930's?
What is the Dust Bowl?
Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Black Americans move north to urban cities for political, social, and economic reasons.
What is the Great Migration?
Farmers produced more crops than people were able to buy.
What is Overproduction?
A New Deal program that was an organization meant to create immediate jobs for unemployment relief.
What is the WPA (Works Progress Administration)?
The belief that individuals who are native born are superior to immigrants.
What is Nativism?
Temporary houses and camps of homeless people sprung up outside cities. They were made out of scrap materials such as paper, aluminum, cardboard, and tin.
What are Hoovervilles? or What are Shantytowns?
Paranoia over the threat of Communism in the U.S.; led to the abuse of citizens’ 1st Amendment rights by the government
What is the red scare?
This occurs when people are not purchasing as many products as the economy is producing.
What is underconsumption?
The first lady who stood up for civil rights and women's rights and was one of the most influential first ladies.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This amendment sought to reduce crime resulting from the consumption of alcohol, but in fact, it led to the rise of organized crime in the United States.
What is the 18th amendment?
In what decade did the Great Depression mostly occur?
What are the 1930s?
He left a powerful legacy of black pride (“Black is beautiful”), economic independence, Pan-Africanism, and Black Nationalism
Who is Marcus Garvey?
The practice of engaging in risky financial transactions in an attempt to make a quick and large profit from the stock market
What is stock market speculation?
He believed that the president's New Deal programs did not go far enough to help the most vulnerable portions of American society.
Who is Senator Huey Long?
These two industries helped to create a common culture in the country.
What are motion pictures and radio?
This president thought that the economy would "fix itself" (laissez-faire) and that no government help is needed.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Society’s focus on buying more and more goods and services at affordable prices, and in greater amounts
What is consumerism? (Consumer culture)
When many people went to the bank to pull out all of their money. The stock market was connected with banks running out of money because banks lent money to stockbrokers.
What are bank runs? "Running on banks"
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to reorganize the Supreme Court by increasing the size of the Supreme Court so that he could appoint justices who would supply rulings favorable to him
What is court-packing?
How did World War I affect support for the women’s voting movement?
Women's support and contributions during the war meant they deserved the right to vote
List 2 to 3 factors that led to the Dust Bowl
What are extended droughts, very high temperatures, poor agricultural practices (Overplowing and the removal of prairie grasses), and wind erosion?