Social
The major effect of the Harlem Renaissance.
What is an increase in racial pride among African Americans?
Following WWI the US entered this political period where they focused on the problems at home.
What is isolationism?
The creation of this allowed Americans to purchase new goods that they previously could not afford.
What is credit?
A name for what happened on October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
FDR accomplished these things within his first few days in office.
What is solved the banking crisis by restoring people's faith in the bank system using the bank holiday and his fireside chats?
During the 1920's peoples values started to change causing tension between these two groups.
What is traditionalists and modernists? (Science vs. Religion)
What is it granted women the right to vote?
Following WWI the US switched from producing war goods to these type of goods.
(give 2 examples)
What are consumer goods?
(TV's, radios, automobiles, toasters, washing machines, etc. )
Hoover believed in this.
What is Volunteerism?
The three goals of the New Deal.
What is to relieve the jobless, restore the economy, and prevent future depressions through reform?
Caused an increase to organized crime.
What is the 18th amendment?
A period in time when African Americans moved to Northern cities for better economic opportunities.
What is the great migration?
The economic prosperity of the 1920's allowed people to begin investing in this.
What is the stock market?
FDR was elected after Hoover because he promised the people this in his inaugural speech.
What is he promised big direct government action with the New Deal?
Two things that the Social Security Act accomplished.
What is provide unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and security/insurance for those in need?
This group of women reflected the changes of the social role of women in the 1920s, as also demonstrated by the 19th amendment.
What are flappers?
Critics of the roaring twenties argued this.
A time period when vegetation was lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.
What is the dust bowl?
Hoovervilles are...
What are makeshift homes created by those who had lost their jobs and homes due to the depression which they blamed Hoover for not solving?
1. This group posed as a major challenge for the New Deal.
2. FDR did this to try to address this challenge.
1. What is the Supreme Court?
2. What is try to pack the court?
The Palmer Raids were spurred and encouraged by this time period in US history.
What is the Red Scare?
What is a bull market?
Officially got the US out of the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
The New Deal is controversial for these reasons.
(List 2 positive and 2 negative effects of the New deal.)
Positives: helped those in need (ex. the Social security act, gave many Americans jobs (ex. PWA), has a lasting impact today.
Negatives: expanded the role of the federal government, spent a lot of money, it did not help people of color, it did not end the depression.