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US History Unit 8
Between Wars: The 1920's and 1930's
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| isolationism | staying out of foreign affairs |
| Emergency Quota System | limit the number of undesirable immigrants |
| Red Scare | Sacco and Vanzetti-immigrants tried and executed because of fear of immigrant anarchists |
| The Volstead Act and 18th Amendment | prohibition-banned the making, selling or transportation of alcohol in the US |
| Flappers | (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. |
| The Harlem Renaissance | African American culture in NYC, literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture-rebirth of Harlem |
| Langston Hughes | poet during the Harlem Renaissance |
| Louis Armstrong | jazz trumpet playerduring the Harlem Renaissance |
| Causes of the Great Depression | -trouble industry(steel, RR, coal, farmer etc) -weak economy -bank structures-bad bank policy -credit consumers-buy less on credit -overproduction-workers not needed -distribution of wealth-rich get richer -lack of government policy |
| Stock Market Crash | Why-speculation(buying risky stocks), buying on margin(small down payments, pay the rest later) Black Tuesday-bottom falls out -People run to banks to withdraw their $ |
| Hoovervilles | -a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s. -difficult life for many-25% unemployed |
| Hoover's Policy | Hands Off -believed it was the private sectors job to end the depression -limited role of the government-asked business and labor to get along, no strikes or layoffs -construction of the Hoover Dam -Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| lassiez-faire | a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering. |
| Roosevelt's Policy | Hands On -believed the government should do more |
| New Deal | programs designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression -100 days, 15 pieces of new legislation |
| Fireside chats | one of a series of radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the nation, beginning in 1933. |
| Second New Deal | to make adjustments and improvements to the 1st New Deal |
| Works Progress Administration(WPA) | create as many jobs as possible(build airports, fix roads) |
| National Youth Administration(NYA) | education for youths |
| Social Security Act | $ for old age people (65) |
| Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA) | bring power to the area, protect against floods |
| Court Packing | in order to ensure that his programs are not overturned, under judicial review; FDR seeks to add justices to the Supreme court, from 9 to 15 justices |
| Impact of the New Deal | Similar to the Progressive Movement-government takes a more active role in social welfare of American People -programs still around today:Social Security, F.D.I.C., Securities and Exchange on Wall Street |
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Mrs.Ingerick
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