| Term | Definition |
|---|
| DEPRESSION | A severe economic decline marked by high unemployment and business failures. |
| 1929 | year in which the stock market crashed. |
| TARIFF | Type of tax raised by President Hoover in an attempt to increase the amount of American made products bought. |
| RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM | Herbert Hoover's belief that people must be self-reliant and not depend upon the federal government for assistance. |
| GREAT DEPRESSION | Overproduction of consumer goods in the late 1920's helped lead to this. |
| ON MARGIN | This practice of buying stocks helped lead to the stock market crach. |
| FARMERS | Occupation that even during the 1920's did not share in the prosperity of the decade. |
| HOOVER BLANKETS | What many people called newspapers during the Great Depression because they blamed President Hoover for the poverty in America. |
| 1932 | Presidential election year in which Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover because the American people blamed Hoover for the Great Depression. |
| NEW DEAL | The name for all the government programs begun by FDR to fight the Great Depression and bring about reform to the American economy. |
| HUNDRED DAYS | The first three months of FDR's Presidencyduring which Congress passed many laws for fighting the Great Depression. |
| RELIEF, RECOVERY, and REFORM | The three goals of FDR's New Deal. |
| REDUCE PRODUCTION | The New Deal law called the Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to raise farm prices by getting farmers to do this. |
| TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY | New Deal law that used federal money to provide electric power to the people living in this particular region. |
| SOCIAL SECURITY ACT | New Deal law that provided retirement income to elderly people in America. |
| NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT or WAGNER ACT | New Deal law that granted unions the right to organize and bargain collectively. |
| CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS | New Deal law that helped solve the problem of unemployment by providing jobs to young men to plant trees, build bridges and parks, and set up flood control projects. |
| MINIMUM WAGE | The Fair Labor Standards Act established this for workers. |
| FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION | This New Deal law set this up to insure savings accounts in banks so that this would prevent "runs" on banks. |
| SECURITIES and EXCHANGE COMMISSION | New Deal law established this to regulate the stock market. |
| JOBS | FDR believed that this was the most important thing the federal government could provide for the American people during the Great Depression. |
| REPUBLICANS | Which political party would have been opposed to the New Deal policies of FDR. |
| BUSINESS LEADERS | Opposition to FDR's New Deal programs would have been from business or union leaders? |
| DEFICIT SPENDING | FDR paid for much of the New Deal by having the government borrow money - this is called |
| INCREASE | Did the New Deal policies of FDR lead to an increase or decrease in the power of the federal government. |
| JUDICIAL (SUPREME COURT) | Branch of the federal government that was opposed to the New Deal programs of FDR. |
| DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL | Because the Supreme Court believed that the federal government was overextending its power what did the Court do in relation to many New Deal laws. |
| SCHECTER POULTRY v. UNITED STATES | Name of the most significant case that declared a New Deal Law unconstitutional. |
| COURT PACKING PLAN | FDR's response to the Supreme Court declaring certain New Deal laws unconstitutional. |
| CHECKS and BALANCES | Critics of FDR's plan to add justices to the Supreme Court argued that FDR's attempt violated this key principle of American government. |
| DUST BOWL | Name given to the serious droughts that occurred in the Great Plains during the Great Depression. |
| FARMERS | In John Steinbeck's novel the Grapes of Wrath he portrayed the hardships of what group of Americans during the Great Depression. |
| MOTION PICTURES | Form of entertainment that became very popular during the Great Depression because it was inexpensive and allowed people to escape the realities of the Great Depression. |
| WORLD WAR TWO | What event brought the United States completely out of the Great Depression. |
| ROARING TWENTIES | Name for the 1920's because there was so much social change during this decade. |
| RED SCARE | This occurred in the early 1920's because a wave of strikes made many Americans believe that communism was a threat within America. |
| SACCO and VANZETTI | Trial during the 1920's of two Italian immigrants for robbery and murder that many Americans believed showed the anti-immigrant/nativist feelings of this period. |
| NATIVISM | Term for the dislike of foreigners that leads to a belief that immigration should be severely limited. |
| SOUTHERN and EASTERN | The National Origins or Quota Acts of the 1920's were meant to limit immigration from these two sections of Europe. |
| NEW IMMIGRANTS | Were the immigration acts of the 1920's meant to keep out the new or old immigrants. |
| REPUBLICAN | Political party that controlled the Presidency during the 1920's. |
| LAISSEZ-FAIRE | Belief of the Republican Presidents of the 1920's that the government should not interfere with business. |
| TEAPOT DOME | Political scandal during the Harding Presidency that involved top officials taking bribes for leasing government oil fields to private businessmen. |
| CALVIN COOLIDGE | Republican President of the 1920's who showed his pro business attitude with the phrase "the business of America is business." |
| ASSEMBLY LINE | Method used by many American businesses particularly Henry Ford to speed production and make products less expensive. |
| SPECULATION | Term which means the buying of an iten, like stock, with the intent to sell to make a profit. |
| PROHIBITION | Term for the period of American history from 1919 to 1933 when alcohol was banned with America. |
| 18th AMENDMENT | Constitutional amendment that began Prohibition. |
| 21st AMENDMENT | Constitutional amendment that ended Prohibition |
| SCOPES | Trial in 1925 of a biology teacher charged with teaching evolution against Tennessee law. This trial showed the conflict between traditional religious values and scientific ideas. |
| FLAPPERS | New style women of the 1920's - this showed conflict between traditional and more modern values. |
| LOST GENERATION | Name for the writers of the 1920's like Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald who criticized the decade and believed that Americans were too focused on material gain and were extremely narrow minded. |
| HARLEM RENAISSANCE | The national recognition in the 1920's of talented African-American artists, writers, and musicians. |
| LANGSTON HUGHES | Harlem Renaissance writer who wrote I Too, Am America. |
Combine with other sets
Share on Facebook
Share on MySpace