Roaring 20s
This is a system that uses conveyor belts to move parts to different groups of workers.
What is the assembly line?
October 29, 1929 was nicknamed...
What is Black Tuesday?
These were the 3 goals of the New Deal programs.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
These were women who challenged society's ideas about womanhood.
Who are flappers?
This law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals.
What was the Dawes Act?
This was the flourishing of African American literature and art in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This group demanded that Hoover authorize early payment of a promised military bonus to veterans.
What is the Bonus Army?
President FDR held these to speak directly to Americans about the New Deal programs and the economic outlook.
What are Fireside Chats?
These were people who sold alcohol illegally during Prohibition.
Who were bootleggers?
This was the group of people that settled in the New England colonies.
Who were the Puritans?
This was the fear of Communist infiltration.
What is the Red Scare?
Many people left the great plains during the Dust Bowl/drought and went to California, they were called...
What were Oakies?
This was the practice of closing banks before bank runs could put them out of business.
What are bank holidays?
This was the generation that was too young to serve in WWI but too old to serve in WWII.
What was the Lost Generation?
This slogan became the colonists' rallying point during the American Revolution.
What was "no taxation without representation?"
This trial represented conflict between fundamentalist beliefs and scientific ideas about evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
Borrowing money to purchase stock on the paper value of the stock is called...
What is buying on margin?
This was the independent agency set up by Congress to regulate the stock market?
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
This New Deal program hired people to build dams and generators that provided electricity to people in rural areas.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This was the first proposed legislation to prohibit the expansion of slavery in the Western territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This was the first move shown in the White House and served to illustrate the rebirth of the KKK.
What is The Birth of a Nation?
Daily Double: These two events officially ended the Great Depression.
What was the New Deal and WWII?
This was a program that paid farmers not to grow certain crops to help reduce the supply/demand issues.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
This was passed in 1933, officially ending prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
These said that the Constitution does not follow the flag and that people in U.S. territories were not guaranteed citizenship.
What were the insular cases?