Political Changes Economic Changes Social Changes Great Depression New Deal
100
What is the New Deal?
Helped millions of Americans but failed to end Great Depression
100
What is credit?
Buy now, pay later
100
What is Prohibition? (18th Amendment)
Bans sale of alcohol but increases crime and corruption instead
100
What are Hoovervilles?
Makeshift communities where urban unemployed lived, name criticizes president
100
What is social security?
Law providing payments to people who can't work, still important today.
200
What is the 19th Amendment?
Grants women right to vote
200
What is consumerism?
Growing trend during Roaring 20s, related to buying goods
200
What is the Red Scare?
Fear of immigrants after World War I
200
What is rugged individualism?
People should get out of poverty themselves and not rely on government
200
What is court packing?
FDR tries to protect New Deal by adding allies to Supreme Court
300
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
President who ends laissez-faire approach to government
300
What is the Great Depression?
Caused by credit, overproduction, and speculation.
300
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Source of increased racial pride, hope, and resistance
300
What is Black Tuesday?
Day the stock market totally collapsed due to speculation
300
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Federal government employs people to build large-scale infrastructure.
400
What are the Palmer Raids?
Government unfairly arrests immigrants to calm public hysteria.
400
What are cars?
Mass produced during the Roaring 20s, led to development of suburbs
400
What are flappers?
Type of female clothing and term to describe independent women
400
What is the Dust Bowl?
Big problem for farmers during the 1930s
400
What is a bank holiday?
Occurs immediately after FDR inauguration to save banks
500
What is Jim Crow?
Name for racial segregation in South, causes Great Migration
500
What is the Recession of 1918-1920?
Caused by end of World War I
500
Who is William Jennings Bryant?
Prosecutor who was very traditional and tried to put a teacher in jail for teaching evolution
500
What is buying stocks on margin?
Type of financial speculation, partially caused Great Depression
500
What are the First Hundred Days?
FDR's aggressive start to the New Deal






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