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12 Heritage Studies5
Roaring '20s and Depressing '30s
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| consumer culture | culture that is focused on the buying of goods and services |
| legislation | one or more laws created by a government; the act of creating or proposing laws |
| overproduction | producing of a surplus of goods that results in lowered prices |
| Roaring ’20s | It was a time of prosperity and fun in America. The 1920s were a time of material prosperity. But the decade was also a time when people rejected God's Word. |
| stock | shares in a business or corporation that can be bought or sold |
| unemployment | condition of wanting and needing a job but being unable to find one |
| welfare state | country in which the government takes responsibility for the financial support of its people |
| conservative | religious belief that has biblical or traditional views and values |
| fundamentalist | term for a person who stands for the basic teachings of the Bible |
| modernist | religious belief that supports liberal views of religion or wants to update Christianity for the modern world and that human reason and experience hold authority over the Bible |
| liberal | another term for modernist |
| new technology | transformed American entertainment during the 1920s |
| revival | needed because many Americans rejected God and the Bible in the 1920s |
| fundamentalist | term for a person who stands for the basic teachings of the Bible |
| agnostic | religious belief that is doubtful about the existence of God |
| National Recovery Administration (NRA) | program that required businesses to pay workers a minimum wage and forbade businesses from competing with each other |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | program that provided work for young men and later trained them for military service |
| Social Security | program that provides for retirees and the unemployed through workers’ taxes |
| New Deal | program that was proposed by Roosevelt to help the US economy recover from the Great Depression |
| Roosevelt | used a political machine to get votes |
| Scopes Trial | court case that tested Tennessee’s law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools |
| Clarence Darrow | represented the defense in the Scopes Trial |
| overproduction | made farming difficult for American farmers during the 1920s |
| William Jennings Bryan | three-time presidential candidate who argued for the prosecution in the Scopes Trial |
| Calvin Coolidge | became president after President Harding died |
| Warren G. Harding | won the presidential election of 1920 |
| Andrew Mellon | had a tax plan that he believed would allow the government to have more money in the end |
| Hoover | tried to improve the economy but made the Depression worse |
| Why was Roosevelt determined not to let the Supreme Court end the entire New Deal? | He thought the New Deal was not just a way to end the Depression. The Depression was the reason to get the New Deal in place. He thought the New Deal was necessary for the security and success of ordinary Americans. |
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