Alphabet Soup Agencies
This New Deal agency put young men to work on conservation projects like planting trees and building parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This white supremacist group saw a revival in the 1920s, expanding its hate beyond just African Americans to include immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This phrase refers to FDR’s intense legislative activity in the early months of his presidency.
What are the First Hundred Days?
This genre of music, rooted in African American culture, gained national popularity during the 1930s.
What is jazz?
This infamous pair of Italian immigrants were controversially executed in 1927, symbolizing xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
Created to build dams and provide electricity in the Tennessee Valley, this agency also helped prevent flooding.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
Passed in 1924, this act severely limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and essentially banned immigration from Asia.
What is the National Origins Act?
Through his radio addresses known as, FDR explained policies and reassured the public.
What are Fireside Chats?
Known as the “Sultan of Swat,” this baseball legend remained a symbol of hope and entertainment during the Depression.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This movement promoted selective breeding and the idea that some races and ethnic groups were superior to others.
What is eugenics?
This agency gave jobs to artists, writers, and theater performers as part of the Second New Deal.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This movement of African Americans from the rural South to urban centers in the North and West reshaped the country’s demographics and labor force.
What is the Great Migration?
This voting bloc shifted from voting Republican to Democrat during the New Deal.
Who are African-Americans?
This group of disillusioned writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, became known by this name for their critiques of American materialism.
What is the Lost Generation?
This event was carried out by the FBI and led to mass arrests of suspected communists.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This agency was responsible for insuring bank deposits to restore trust in the financial system.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
This 1934 law reversed previous assimilation policies and gave Native American tribes more control over their land and governance.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
This New Deal law created a retirement and unemployment insurance system still in place today.
What is the Social Security Act?
This 1925 trial put science and religion on center stage as a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This Constitutional Amendment, passed in 1919, led to a rise in organized crime and speakeasies.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Originally designed to regulate fair competition and set prices, this controversial agency was later ruled unconstitutional.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
Founded in 1913, this Jewish civil rights organization fought against anti-Semitism and promoted justice during the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)?
FDR threatened to do this amid pushback against the New Deal.
What is "court packing"?
This 1921 scandal involved the secret leasing of government oil reserves to private companies.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This attorney represented John Scopes in the famous 1925 trial and defended academic freedom.
Who is Clarence Darrow?