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Great Depression :(
History- Great Depression
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Franklin Roosevelt | The President during the Great Depression. Helped end the Great Depression using the New Deal. He was handicapped |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | The first lady during the great depression. Was a very smart woman and everyone loved her. |
| John Seinbeck | an American writer |
| Frances Perkins | First woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet |
| Amelia Earhart | Pioneer and author, flew across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Dorothea Lange | American documentary photographer and photojournalist. |
| default | to fail to meet and obligstion |
| migrant workers | A person who moves from place to place to get work harvesting fruit or vegetables |
| fireside chat | speeched president roosevelt made to the public during the great Depression |
| Black Thursday | The stock market crash |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | Provided jobs for young men to plant trees and build bridges |
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration | paid farmers not to grow certain crops |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government |
| Social Security Act | Set up a system of pension for the elderly, unemployed, and people with disabilities |
| Public Works Administration | Built Ports, schools, and aircraft carriers |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Built dams to provide cheap electric power to seven Southern states; set up schools and health centers |
| Federal Emergency Releif Administration | Gave releif to unemployed and the needy |
| Hooverville | Poor towns and places where they blamed Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression |
| Marcus Garvey | black publisher and journalist |
| Louis Armstrong | Famous jazz trumpet player |
| Duke Ellington | American composer, pianist and big band leader- black |
| Langston Hughes | African American poet, novelist and short story writer |
| Claude Mckay | Jamaican writer and poet |
| Bessie Smith | famous African American blues singer |
| James Weldon Johnson | American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer,and other random stuff |
| Countee Cullen | African American romantic poet |
| the Harlem Rennesainsse | a movement which flowered of Africam Americans |
| capitalism | an economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
| Bolsheviks/ Communists/ "Reds" | people who think that the recources should be shared between the people |
| recession | a slowing down in the economy |
| Speakeasies | an establishment which illegally sold alcoholic beverages during the period of United States history known as Prohibition |
| flappers | young rebellious girls of the 1920s |
| gross national product | the total value of all goods and services produced by a nations residents during a year, reguardless of where production takes place |
| expatriate | a person who gives up his/ her country to live in another country |
| boot legging | usually refers to making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor or copyrighted material; |
| isolationism | a national policy pf avoiding involvment in world affairs |
| red scare | The red scare was a policy meant to scare people away from communists and away from being communists |
| Five power treaty | US,GREAT BRITAIN, JAPAN, FRANCE, AND ITALY agreed to maintain the balance in their battleship fleets to reduce the possibility for future wars |
| Kellogg Briand Pact | was a multinational treaty that prohibited the use of war as "an instrument of national policy." |
| Eightteenth Amendment | The amendment itself did not ban the actual consumption of alcohol, but made obtaining it legally difficult. |
| Nineteenth Amendment | prohibits each state and the federal government from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. |
| Emergency Quota Act | an immigration quota that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910, |
| Scopes Trial | In Tennessee, a law made it illegal to teach the evolution theory but instead to teach the story in the Bible and the trial was against that |
| Sacco and Vansetti Act | Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the men were executed on August many people beleived the trial was not fair |
| Boston Police Strike | the Boston police rank and file went out on strike on September 9, 1919 in order to achieve recognition for their union and improvements in wages and working conditions. |
| Calvin Coolage | Was the govorner of Massachusets, against the police strike, Police strike was against him |
| Babe Ruth | African American, the best baseball player of all time |
| The Jazz Singer | First, It was a Broadway Play and then it was made into a film in the 1927, The film talked, which freaked people out. |
| The Teapot Dome | The men that President Harding put in charge of the oil reserves took bribes and messed up all the oil reserves. President Harding got in trouble |
| results of the car boom | industries got more money, more jobs were available and everyone had a car. |
| Charles Lindbergh and the spirit of St. Louis | the Boston police rank and file went out on strike on September 9, 1919 in order to achieve recognition for their union and improvements in wages and working conditions. |
| Will rodgers | was a Cherokee cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor. |
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