1920s
The 1920s saw a surge in the popularity of this invention, revolutionizing transportation (Topic 7 Section 1 - pg. 221)
What is the Automobile?
These young women of the 1920s were known for their unconventional behavior and fashion (Topic 7 Section 1 - pg. 224)
Who are Flappers?
The event of October 29, 1929, is often referred to by this term, marking the beginning of the Great Depression (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 241)
What is The Stock Market Crash?
The term referring to President Roosevelt declared a brief suspension of all banking activities to stabilize the financial system in 1933 (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 247)
What is the “Bank Holiday" or Emergency Banking Act?
The term referring to FDR's attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court justices to secure favorable rulings for New Deal programs (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 253)
What is Court Packing?
During the 1920s, there was a significant decline in this, reflecting a weakening of organized labor (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 240)
What is Union membership?
This U.S. immigration law aimed to restrict immigration based on national origin; what is its name (Topic 7 Section 1 - pg. 230)
What is National Origins Act of 1924?
The severe environmental disaster in the 1930s, characterized by dust storms and agricultural damage (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 245)
What is The Dust Bowl?
This New Deal legislation aimed to boost agricultural prices by providing subsidies to farmers (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 250)
What is AAA or the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Enacted in 1935, this landmark legislation established a system of social insurance (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 251)
What is the Social Security Act?
Prominent African American labor leader that organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Topic 7 Section 2 - pg. 236)
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This group reemerged in the 1920s with a broader message and in new states with new hateful motives (Topic 7 Section 1 - pg. 228)
Who is The KKK?
The biggest economic effect of the Great Depression in 1932 (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 244)
What is unemployment?
The voting bloc that helped Franklin Delano Roosevelt win the presidency for a second term in 1936 (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 252)
What is the New Deal Coalition?
These people and groups were mostly affected by FDR and his New Deal (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 252)
Who are Native Americans, Latin Americans, Women and African Americans?
This trend was marked by the widespread availability of goods and services (Topic 7 Section 1 - pg. 220)
What is Mass Consumption?
This event represented the debate over science vs religion and modernity vs conformity (Topic 7 Section 1 - pg. 227 - 228)
What is The Scopes Trial?
This organization was part of President Herbert Hoover's response to Great Depression involving loans to banks (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 247)
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
Created in 1933, this New Deal agency focused on large-scale public works projects (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 249)
What is the PWA or Public Works Administration?
Three evaluations of the success of the New Deal (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 255)
What is helping people cope with the Great Depression, restoring some confidence in government, Preserving a free-enterprise system, etc.
The president who was known for economic prosperity and his attitude toward business (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 239 - 240)
Who is Calvin Coolidge and a relaxed attitude?
These two terms represented new artistic/writing movements within the 1920s (Topic 7 Section 1 - pg. 223 & Topic 7 Section 2 - pg. 232)
What are The Harlem Renaissance and The Lost Generation?
The name of a group of World War I veterans marched on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus promised to them in 1932 (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 247)
What is the Bonus Army?
This amendment, ratified in 1951, set a two-term limit for presidents (Topic 7 Section 3 - pg. 254)
What is the 22nd Amendment?
What is Schechter v. U.S. in 1935?