New Deal
What inspired the New Deal?
Progressive ideas
What type of people supported the progressive movement?
Middle class, women, urban cities
Name 2 examples of new technology created in the 1920s.
Radio, motion pictures
What was a cause of the white v black conflict post ww1?
The great migration post ww1; blacks migrated to North and the north wasn’t used to having a lot of black so that lead to more attacks.
Who won?
America
Who created the New Deal?
FDR
The 17th amendment formed from progressive ideas. What is it?
Direct election of senators
How did automobiles change culture?
People didn’t have to live where they worked; expansion of housing
Around what year was the kkk revived?
1920s
What did the U.S. gain?
Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Phillipines
What did it increase government power to?
•to aid the poor
•social security
•AAA
What did the progressive movement propose?
To regulate the economy, environment, and expand democracy.
What are Nickelodeon’s?
Short films ;paid a nickel to see; no sound; cartoons
What is Red Summer?
Race riots in Chicago
What was an effect?
U.S. presence in the Caribbean & Latin America; Roosevelt corollary
How did the New Deal affect voting patterns?
African Americans switched from republican to Democratic Party
Who is Huey Long?
He believed the government should pay families by taxing the upper class.
What is the name of a poplar show played over the radio?
War of the worlds
What was the Scopes Trial?
States passed laws that human evolution could not be taught in schools
What is one of the causes?
Yellow journalism
What are the three R’s in the New Deal?
Relief, Recover, reform
What is another name for the progressive party?
Populist party
What was a popular sport described over the radio?
Baseball
What was The Sedition act of 1918?
Made it illegal to criticize war effort
What is the Delome Letter?
Letter to Congress ; McKinley saying U.S. needs to be involved in the war