Red Scare and Racial Tensions
What was the large movement of African Americans from the South to the North called?
Great Migration
What scientific theory was John Scopes arrested for teaching in Tennessee?
evolution
What does it mean to put your money into something with the hopes of getting more money back later?
Investing
What agency was responsible for planting trees and improving national parks?
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
What President was known by his nickname "Silent Cal"?
Calvin Coolidge
What group of people did the Red Scare target?
Communists, anarchists
What did the Nineteenth Amendment do?
granted women the right to vote
In September 1929, many investors felt a need to ________ their stocks, making stock prices fall quickly.
Sell
What agency was responsible for raising food prices and controlling food production by paying farmers to destroy their crops?
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
What character trait was Calvin Coolidge best known for?
Honesty, investigating corruption
Who supported the "back-to-Africa" movement?
Marcus Garvey
What did the Eighteenth Amendment do?
Banned the making and selling of alcohol
To buy stocks "____________" meant that you borrowed money to pay for your stocks.
on margin
What agency was responsible for hiring unemployed writers, artists, and musicians?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
What was President Warren G. Harding best known for doing while in office?
Choosing unqualified political supporters to help him
Who were the two Italian immigrants (and anarchists) who were arrested for robbery and sentenced to death?
Sacco and Vanzetti
Who was the most famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
What were the villages that unemployed people built in the streets called during the Great Depression?
Hoovervilles
What agency was responsible for setting a minimum wage and banning child labor?
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
What disease did Franklin Roosevelt have that left him paralyzed in both legs for the rest of his life?
Polio
Tulsa, OK
Who was the most famous musician of the Harlem Renaissance?
Louis Armstrong
What were the strong storms called that destroyed much of the Great Plains during the Great Depression?
Dust Bowl
What agency was responsible for building dams along major rivers in the South, generating electricity for thousands of farms and homes?
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
What was President Hoover's FIRST response to the Great Depression?
He thought it was short and chose to do nothing.