New Deal
Federal Governments main issue when the Depression started
High unemployment rates
Who ran on the campaign of "returning to normalcy" for America?
Warren G. Harding
Dust Bowl affected which area of the US the most?
Great Plains
Flappers were...
Young women, with a short “bob” hairstyle, cigarette dangling from her painted lips, dancing to a live jazz band
Monkey Scopes Trial was about....
A teacher, Scopes, was fired for teaching Evolution
Congress feared Roosevelt was heading towards what? and what did they do about it?
Dictatorship, 22nd amendment - term limits
Dust Bowl was caused by what?
Drought, poor farming techniques
Bank failures caused people to lose what?
Their life savings
18th Amendment was...
Prohibition- no consumption, selling, or making alcohol
19th Amendment
Women's Suffrage
TVA, name and meaning
Tennessee Valley Administration, create jobs and improve standards of living to stop flooding
Red Scare was what? and led to what?
Fear of the spread of communism, socialism, and anarchy
Immigration restrictions
Bread lines and soup kitchens were used by who during the Great Depression?
Majority of Americans
Installment Plans
Monthly payments, buying on credit
Organized crime, mobs, gangsters rose during the 20's because of what?
Prohibition and rise of selling illegal alcohol
FHA name and description
Federal Housing Administration, mortgage loans from the back
What are immigration Quotas?
Limiting the % of people, per country/region, allowed into the US each year
Smoot- Hawley Tariff
Protective tariff to promote American Business, decreased international trade
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Established Jazz, rebirth of prominent black artists, singers, musicians, and culture. Centered in Harlem NY
With people not buying products, manufacturing companies had to do what?
Lay off employees
Reconstruction Finance Corporation and New Deal policies are similar how?
protected the economy through government involvement in the private sector
What was the Mexican Repatriation Act?
Government sent Mexicans, sometimes citizens, back to Mexico to make jobs for White Americans
Bank failures, decline in trade, and what other main event led to the Great Depression?
Over speculation in Stock Market
Results of the assembly line...
Mass production, consumerism, affordable cars, commuters, rural life did not exclude people from city life
Name for makeshift cities built by those who lost their home, and explain the name
Hoovervilles, they blamed president Hoover