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