| Term | Definition |
|---|
| buying on margin | pay 10% down on stock, price raises on stock, sell stock, make enough $ to pay back stock broker and make your own $ |
| Warren Harding | 29th President of the United States. Had 2 associates involved in the teapot dome scandal |
| Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died. Tried to clean up scandals. Business prospered and people's wealth increased |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | Treaty that outlawed war |
| recession | economic slump |
| installment buying | buying on credit |
| stocks | shares of ownership in a company |
| bull market | a period of increased stock trading and rising stock prices |
| communism | an economic system in which all wealth and property is owned by the community as a whole |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of the Interior (Albert Fall) leased government land in California and at Teapot Dome, Wyoming to 2 oil executives- Fall became the first Cabinet official to be sent to prison |
| disarmament | the reduction/elimination of armed forces and weapons of war |
| business leaders head of government and industry rises | What two things did Coolidge do to help the economy? |
| Ohio Gang | What was the name that Harding's cabinet was known as? |
| prohibition | What is the illegal transport, sale and manufacturing of alcohol? |
| 18th Amendment | This amendment led to the Mafia, gangsters (organized crime), bootleggers and speakeasy. |
| 21st Amendment | What amendment repealed the 18th Amendment? |
| 19th Amendment | What amendment was women's suffrage? |
| suburbs, gas stations, fast food, more restaurants, motels, roads (paved), jobs in many industries (steal, oil, rubber, glass), parking meters, tourism | List some of the impacts of automobiles. (click on count as correct because there are so many examples listed) |
| mass culture | ____ _____ was when the nation became one, national culture and national accent in movies, radio,,, |
| goldfish eating, flagpole sitting, dance marathons, crossword puzzles, Mah Jong | List some of the fads of the 20's. (click on count as correct because there are so many examples listed) |
| flappers | ______ are women who would wear "short" dresses (came to ankle), smoked, had bobbed hair, drank, were rebellious, and drove "fast" cars. |
| jazz | This type of music became very popular in the 20's. |
| Louis Armstrong | Who is the famous black man who played the trumpet in the 20's? |
| Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis | Who were the two authors who were expatriotes? |
| Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms | What is a book that was written by Ernest Hemingway? |
| Babbitt, Main Street | What is abook that was written by Sinclair Lewis? |
| Harlem Renaissance | The _____ _____ was the rebirth of African American culture. |
| Langston Hughes | This man was well known for making the Harlem Renaissance famous because of his poems. |
| Charles Lindbergh | _____ ____ flew over the Atlantic Ocean non-stop in a one man plane. |
| Babe Ruth | Give a hero of baseball in the 20's. |
| Bobby Jones | Give a hero of golf in the 20's. |
| Helen Willis | Give a hero of tennis in the 20's. (female) |
| Bill Tilden | Give a hero of tennis in the 20's. (male) |
| Jack Dempsey | Give a hero of boxing in the 20's. |
| bootleggers | _____ were people who smuggled beer into the US in their boots illegally. |
| speakeasies | _____ were illegal bars.- accepted women and men |
| repeal | _____ means cancellation. |
| suburb | _____ is a community located outside of a city. |
| fad | A _____ is an activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time. |
| flapper | A _____ is a young woman who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting. |
| jazz | _____ is the combined West African rhythms, American work songs and spirituals, and European harmonies. |
| expatriotes | ______ are people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land. |
| charlie chaplin | a short man who was a famous actor |
| red scare | people searched for enemy spies and sabotage, thousands of foreigners jailed or deported, anarchists are attacked by kkk |
| farmers | who was hurt the worst in the depression? |
| produced a lot of food during he war, had leftover crops, prices lowered but farmers kept growing | why were the farmers hurt the worst in the depression? (click on count as correct cuz there are a lot of definitions) |
| communists | who were labor unions associated with? |
| robbery and murder | what were sacco and vanzetti arrested for? |
| sacco and vanzetti | who was the "face" of the red scare? |
| arrested, convicted, and executed | what happened to sacco and vanzetti? |
| quota system | allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the US |
| hoover | who won the election of 1928? |
| clarence darrow | who defended scopes in the scopes trial? |
| teaching evolution in his high school biology class | what was scopes guilty of? |
| william jennings bryan | who was the prosecuter in the scopes trial? |
| was asked bible questions | how was brian made to look like a fool during the scopes trial? |
| convicted and evolution was not allowed in TN | what happened to scopes? |
| hoover | this republican was rural, protestant, native born, pro prohibition, had been in charge of the Food Administration during WWI |
| smith | this democrat was from the big city, roman catholic, son of immigrants, anti-prohibition |
| company unions | labor organizatoins that were actually controlled by management |
| sabotage | secret destruction of property or interference with work in factories |
| anarchist | people who oppose organized government |
| deported | expelled from the country |
| nativism | anitforiegn feelings |
| farmers, overproduction in factories, buying stock on margin, weakness in banking system and international money problems | list the 5 causes of the depression.(click on count as correct cuz there are so many) |
| 11 years | how long did the depression last? |
| private charity, bonus army | what did hoover do about the depression? |
| MacArthur and Eisenhower | what 2 men led the army against the bonus army? |
| capital | money from investors |
| bankrupt | unable to pay their debts |
| relief programs | programs to help the needy |
| soup kitchens | places where the hungry could get a free meal |
| public works | projects built by the government for public use |
| bonus | additional sum of money |
| 100 days | this is a time period called the ___ ___ because 15 major laws were passed. |
| bank holiday | the ___ ___ was when FDR closed ALL the banks for 8 days, and good banks reopened and bad banks did not. |
| fireside chats | the ___ ___ were when FDR gave speeches by the radio by a "fire", and told Americans his plan for America. (there really was no fire, just paper) |
| FDIC | the _ _ _ _ insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government |
| relief, recovery, reform | what are the 3 r's of the new deal? |
| CCC | give an example for relief. |
| AAA, TVA | give 2 examples of recovery. |
| FDIC | give an example of reform. |
| CCC | the _ _ _ hired unemployed single men between ages of 18-25, $1 a day, planted trees, built bridges, worked on flood control projects, and developed parks. |
| AAA | the _ _ _ was when the government paid farmers to not grow certain crops- smaller harvest=price raies and more $. |
| TVA | The _ _ _ transformed a flooded valley into a rich productive area providing cheap electricity. |
| surplus | occurs when farmers produce more than they can sell |
| speculation | risky buying and selling of stocks in the hope of making a quick profit |
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