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Fisher US Review 6
US History Regents Review Packet 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prohibition | Period of time in alcohol was banned in the US |
| Temperance Movement | Attempt to end the manufacturing, distribution, sale, and consumption of alcohol |
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union | Organization formed to ban alcohol in the US |
| 18th Amendment | 1919 addition to the Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol |
| 21st Amendment | 1933 repeal of Prohibition |
| Roaring 20's | Period of time in the 1920's characterized by great changes in culture and society in the US |
| Return to Normalcy | President Warren Harding's campaign promise to restore the US to its way of life before WWI, including neutrality |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of the Interior under Warren Harding caught accepting bribes from oil companies to drill public land |
| Harlem Renaissance | Cultural, social, and artistic movement in New York City highlighting the talents of black authors, musicians, and artists |
| Langston Hughes | A leader of the Harlem Renaissance; famous poet, author, and playwright |
| Louis Armstrong | Famous musician during the Harlem Renaissance |
| Booker T Washington | Civil rights leader who supported progress for blacks towards economic equality through vocational education |
| W.E.B. Dubois | Civil rights leader who supported immediate social equality for blacks through higher education |
| Susan B Anthony | Leading advocate of women's suffrage movement to gain women the right to vote |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Civil rights activist who promoted suffrage for women |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| National Woman Suffrage Association | Organization formed by Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to promote suffrage for women |
| 19th Amendment | 1920 granted women the right to vote |
| The Great Depression | Worst economic collapse in US history, occurring during the 1930's |
| Speculation | Buying high risk stocks in the hope of getting rich quickly |
| Buying on the margin | Borrowing money from a stockbroker to buy stocks |
| Overproduction | Too many goods being produced, causing a drop in prices and the eventual failure of businesses leading to unemployment |
| Stock Market | The buying and selling of shares of corporations |
| Gross National Product | The dollar value of all final goods and services sold in the US in one year. A measure of economic health |
| Herbert Hoover | US President 1929-1933. Led the country at the start of the Great Depression, supported laissez-faire economics |
| Trickle Down Theory | Hoover's belief that the leaving businesses alone to recover rather than regulating them would improve the economy |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | US President 1933-1945. Led the country out of the Great Depression and into WWII |
| 22nd Amendment | 1947 limited President to two terms of office. Passed after FDR died during his 4th term in office |
| New Deal | Programs and agencies created by FDR to end the Great Depression |
| Three R's of the New Deal | Relief: stabilize economy. Recovery: improve economy. Reform: make economy more secure |
| Schechter Poultry Corp v US | Supreme Court case declaring FDR's National Recovery Administration to be unconstitutional |
| US v Butler | Supreme Court case declaring FDR's Agricultural Adjustment Act to be unconstitutional |
| Court Packing Plan | FDR's attempt to increase the number of Supreme Court justices to make the court more supportive of his New Deal |
| Good Neighbor Policy | FDR's plan to improve US relations with Latin America by promising more trade and less political intervention |
| Dust Bowl | Drought and overfarming in the Great Plains caused massive dust storms and played a role in causing the Great Depression |
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