The political cartoon technique involving simple objects that stand for larger concepts or ideas.
What is symbolism?
100
This influential women of the 1920s created the first birth control clinic in the U.S.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
100
This cause of the Great Depression was the result of buying on margin and risky investment.
What is the stock market crash?
100
These were towns of "houses" built during the Great Depression after people lost their homes.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
A New Deal program still in existence, this provides aid to retired Americans who are 65 years or older.
What is Social Security?
200
The political cartoon technique where artists label objects or people to make it clear what they stand for.
What is labeling?
200
This trend changed 1920s life by increasing the amount of advertisements and offering credit to the poor.
What is consumerism?
200
This cause of the Great Depression was the result of more products being produced than consumers could buy.
What is overproduction?
200
This federal government agency created by Hoover gave money to banks, railroads, businesses, and later, states.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
200
This is the collective name of the group that voted for Democrats starting in 1936.
What is the New Deal Coalition?
300
Political cartoonists use these to identify people in the cartoons or to help clarify the point of the cartoon.
What are captions or dialogue?
300
This group of 1920s Americans had deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values.
Who were traditionalists?
300
This cause of the Great Depression was the result of bad loans and depositor's withdrawing all their money at the same time.
What is bank failure?
300
During this time, FDR and Congress passed a record number of laws. Now all presidents must try to live up to his standards.
What is the First Hundred Days?
300
This piece of New Deal legislation gave workers the right to organize a union. It also helped unions gain equal footing with employers.
What is the Wagner Act?
400
The political cartoon technique where artists overdo physical characteristics to make a point.
What is exaggeration?
400
This was the name given to young females who broke with the past by cutting their hair, wearing short dresses, and going to night clubs.
Who are flappers?
400
This is the term used for a steady rise in stock prices over a long period of time.
What is a bull market?
400
This political ideology thought that government should not try to fix the Great Depression. Left alone, they believed, it would stabilize by itself.
What is conservativism?
400
One of the two groups of Americans that probably got the best deal from the New Deal.
Who are workers or Indian Americans?
500
This is the difference between the ways things are and the way things should be. Cartoonists often use it to express their opinion on an issue.
What is irony?
500
Describe (in detail) what happened during the Scopes Trial.
What is both sides were fighting over the right to teach evolution in schools? What is Darrow forced Bryan to admit the Bible should not be literally interpreted? What is Scopes still lost the trial?
500
This law taxed imports to protect American businesses from foreign competition. It backfired and sent the entire world into a depression.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
500
Although this political ideology did not want to switch from capitalism to communism, they did believe the government should help solve the Great Depression.
What is liberalism?
500
This New Deal agency attempted to solve overproduction by paying farmers to reduce crop production and destroy livestock.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?