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ch. 12 & 13 Vocab.
Mrs. Hunt U.S. History Ch. 12 & 13 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.) Speculation | practice of making high-rise investments in hopes of earning large profits |
| 2.) Black Tuesday | Oct. 29, 1929 stock prices fell sharply in the Great Crash |
| 3.) Business Cycle | periodic growth and contraction of the economy |
| 4.) Great Depression | 1929-1941 in which the economy faltered and unemployment grew |
| 5.) Hawley-Smoot Tariff | protective import tax in 1930 |
| 6.) Bread Line | people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies |
| 7.) Hooverville | term used to describe shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression |
| 8.) Tenant Farmer | farmers who worked for bigger land owners rather than for themselves |
| 9.) Dust Bowl | term used for the central and southern Great Plains in 1930's when the region suffered from drought and dust storms |
| 10.) Okies | term used to describe Dust Bowl refugees |
| 11.) Repatriation | process of Mexican Americans were forced to return to Mexico |
| 12.) Localism | policy used by President Hoover in the Depression where local and state governments act as primary economic relief agents |
| 13.) Reconstruction Finance Corporation | agency to provide emergency government credits to banks |
| 14.) Trickle Down Economics | theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will "trickle" down to consumers |
| 15.) Hoover Dam | dam on the Colorado River |
| 16.) Bonus Army | WWI veterans who marched on D.C in 1932 to demand a payment bonus promised to them by Congress |
| 17.) New Deal | programs enacted by F.D.R during the Depression to promote economic recovery |
| 18.) Fireside Chat | informal radio broadcasts in which F.D.R explained issues and the New Deal programs |
| 19.) FDIC | government agency that insures bank deposits |
| 20.) TVA | government agency that built dams in the TN River to control flooding and generate power |
| 21.) CCC | New Deal program that provided young men with relief jobs on conservation projects |
| 22.) NRA | New Deal agency that promoted recovery in the economy by regulating wages, prices, and production |
| 23.) PWA | New Deal agency that provided jobs constructing buildings |
| 24.) Second New Deal | activity begun by F.D.R in 1935 to solve problems created by the Great Depression |
| 25.) WPA | New Deal agency that provided work relief through public projects |
| 26.) Pump Priming | theory that favored work projects because they put money into the consumer's hands who bought more goods |
| 27.) Social Security Act | 1935; law that set up insurance and aid for people |
| 28.) Wagner Act | New Deal law that abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the right of employees to organize labor unions |
| 29.) Collective Bargaining | employers negotiate with labor unions about working conditions, wages, and hours |
| 30.) Fair Labor Standards Act | 1938 law that set a minimum wage, a maximum workweek of 44 hours, and outlawed child labor |
| 31.) CIO | labor organization in the 1930's that represented unskilled industrial workers |
| 32.) Sit Down Strikes | protest in which workers stopped working and occupied the workplace until their demands are met |
| 33.) Court Parking | F.D.R plan to add up six new justices to the Supreme Court after the Court ruled that some of the New Deal was unconstitutional |
| 34.) Black Cabinet | African American leaders who served as advisers to F.D.R |
| 35.) Indian New Deal | 1930's legislation that gave Indians greater control over their affairs and provided funding for schools and hospitals |
| 36.) New Deal Coalition | political force formed by groups who united to support F.D.R and his New Deal legislation |
| 37.) Welfare State | government that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of the poor |
| 38.) Wizard of Oz | A book by the American author L. Frank Baum. A little girl named Dorothy, is carried by a tornado from Kansas to the land of Oz |
| 39.) War of the Worlds | October 30, 1938; an episode of a radio drama that performed as a Halloween series |
| 40.) Federal Art Project | division of the Works Progress Administration that hired unemployed artists to create artworks for public buildings |
| 41.) Mural | a large picture painted directly on a wall or ceiling |
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