Prohibition
This movement argued alcohol caused crime, family breakdown, and poverty and pushed for national banning.
What is the Temperance movement?
This federal approach to business in the 1920's favored low taxes and limited regulations.
What is laissez-faire/pro-business?
This 1929 event is often cited as cause of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This president was widely blamed for not doing enough to stop the early years of the Depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
This New Deal agency insured bank deposits to the public in order to restore public confidence in banks.
What is the FDIC? (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
This constitutional amendment established Prohibition.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This Cultural movement in NYC celebrated African American artistic achievement in the 1920's.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is why many banks during the early Depression that caused people to lose there savings.
What is Bank Failures? (Description also accepted)
This incident in 1932 where veterans who demanded bonuses were forcibly removed, harming the president’s public image.
What was the Bonus Army?
This New Deal program provided jobs for young men.
What is the CCC? (Civilian Conservation Corps)
This Amendment ended Prohibition in 1933.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This 1920s fashion and behavior icon symbolised greater social reform for women.
What are Flappers?
This is the additional economic cause that contributed to the depression.
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What is Overproduction/unequal income distribution?
This is the three word summary of FDR’s program goals for addressing the Depression.
What is Relief, Recovery, Reform? (the “Three R’s”)
This Supreme Court case struck down major parts of the NIRA. (National Industrial Recovery Act)
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
These illegal establishments where a popular place to drink during Prohibition.
What are Speakeasies? (secret/underground bars)
This was the inventor of the Model T, the car that revolutionsed transportation. (Also set many workplace standerds)
Who was Henry Ford?
These shantytowns, built by homeless families during the Great Depression, were named to mock the President in office from 1929 to 1933.
What are Hoovervilles?
This controversial 1937 proposal by FDR sought to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
This was FDR's proposal for adding additional Supreme Court Justices.
What was court-packing?
This is why Prohibition is compared to the Fugitive Slave Act.
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What is local enforcement of unpopular federal mandates/provoked resistance and evasion/increased social conflict?
This new mass media technology brought news and culture into American homes during the 1920s.
What is the Radio?
This term describes when too much production and too little consumer buying power helped cause the Depression.
What is Overproduction/underconsumption?
This criticism of Hoover points to his refusal to provide large-scale federal relief during the Depression.
What is lack of direct federal relief?
This is a lasting effect of the New Deal.
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what is stronger financial regulation (FDIC)/Social Security/Federal safety net, etc.?