Flashcards: us History unit 7
All 39 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Warren G Harding | president |
| Mass Production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
| Assembly Line | Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks |
| Henry Ford | car maker, Model T car |
| Wright Brother | Wilbur and Orville, built first airplane, $1,000 in 1903 |
| Technology | labor and time saving; assembly line reduce prices electric appliances (save time) airlines (speeds up travel) radio (unites country) |
| Uneven Prosperity | there are people that are extremely rich or extremely poor |
| Nativism | belief that one native land needs to be protected against immigrants |
| speakeasy | secret bars |
| scopes trial | denied the story of the bible, taught the theory of evolution, found guilty $100 fine |
| Ernest Hemingway | antiheroes |
| F. Scott- Fitzgerald | a writer, Great Gatsby |
| Jazz Singer | influenced Dixieland blues, religious, soul, love, poverty, oppression |
| Harlem Renaissance | Flowering African American Arts |
| Marcus Garvey | black, jamaican, negro- nationalism, mail fraud, deported |
| Negro- Nationalism | gain political power and economic power buy education |
| Stock Market | positions of a business are sold for a profit |
| Bank Run | many people withdrawing their money from the bank at once because of fear of the banks collapsing |
| Alfred E Smith | democrat, catholic beliefs caused campaign issues |
| Black Tuesday | 10/29/29; $10-15 billion lost in stock market |
| Dust Bowl | drought form Dakota to Texas, dust buried crops, livestock, killed people; farmers to poor to plant + drought= dust bowl |
| John Steinbeck | Grapes of Wrath, poverty,misfortune |
| Fireside "chats" | (radio broadcasts) made by Roosevelt to the American people to explain his interests |
| New Deal | (Roosevelt) policies for ending the Depression |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | president, 2 terms, new deal, at the end of being president he was not popular like when he entered office |
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; -provides government insurance for bank deposits up for certain amounts -ended up increasing the public confidence in the banks |
| SEC | securities and exchange commission; -required companies who sold stocks and bonds to tell the truth -prevented fraud |
| HOLC | Homeowners Loan Coorporation; -help homeowners pay their mortgage - |
| FCA | Farm Credit Administration; -help farmers refinance their mortgage -lower interest rates, saved people homes |
| AAA | Agriculture Adjustment Administration; -farmers had to much surplus -no more surplus, food prices up, income also up |
| NRA | National Recovery Administration; -urged customers to only buy from people who had the "blue eagle" -small companies combined to get more benefits |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps; -offered unemployed jobs -men got work (outdoors) |
| FERA | Federal Emergency Relief Administration; -funded relief projects for state and local (short term) |
| PWA | Public works Administration; -unemployed were construction industry -broke the racial barriers |
| CWA | Civil Works Administration; -hired workers directly -spent to much money |
| SSA | Social Security Act; -provided security for the old and unemployed -government responsible for ones who cant work |
| NLRB | Nation Labor Union; -factory election in secret, decided if they wanted a union -stopped unfair practicies |
| TVA | tva |
| FHA | fha |