Hodgepodge: Lessons 26-29
Conducted on homes and offices of those suspected of being radicals and subversives, without warrants or court orders during the 1920s.
What are the Palmer Raids?
October 29, 1929
What is Black Tuesday?
Shanty-towns that homeless Americans in many cities built out of cardboard and tar paper.
What are Hoovervilles?
What is an Okie?
Introduced measures to reduce crop supply, stabilize prices, and support farm incomes.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
The 18th Amendment prohibiting the production, distribution, and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Volstead Act (Prohibition)?
When there are not enough consumers purchasing products being produced.
What is overproduction?
A protest begun by 250 World War I veterans in May of 1932 in Washington, DC.
What is the Bonus Army?
Established across the United States to feed the hungry.
What are soup kitchens?
Paid private contractors to build large-scale projects proposed by the states.
What is the Public Works Administration (WPA)?
This encompassed the outpouring of creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in Harlem, NY during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A rapid sell-off of stock shares in October 1929 as Market values fell quickly.
What is the stock market crash?
Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to address the problems of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
Dust storms with winds whipping across the plains forming ominous black clouds of dried-out topsoil.
What is a black blizzard?
Allowed federal regulation of stock trading in public corporations.
What is the Securities and Exchange Act (SEA)?
Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leased the oil reserves in Elk Hills, CA to two companies that paid him $360,000 in bribes.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Paying as little as 10% of a stocks value with the promise of paying the balance due upon sale of the stock.
What is buying on margin?
Programs that provide aid to those in need, effectively redistributing money from the wealthy to the poor in society.
What is social welfare?
What is the Great Flood of 1936?
Reaffirmed the right of collective bargaining, with rules enforced by the National Labor Relations Board.
What is the Wagner Act or National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)?
Specialized in the defense of unpopular individuals and groups using lawyers to fight for the rights of immigrants and those opposed to government policies that discriminated.
What is the American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU)?
Law intended to protect American businesses from foreign competition, but instead triggered a trade war that hurt overproducing American farms and industries.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
Government-funded construction projects that provide for local needs.
What are public works?
A fictional novel by author John Steinbeck that described the plight of Dust Bowl migrants to California.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
Created a national system of pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to mothers with children.
What is the Social Security Act (SSA)?