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The Depression.
Current U.S. History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| normalcy | an adjustment of industry & Agricultural debt |
| Red Scare | where federal officers and local authorities simultaneously raided Communist headquarters in 33 cities, about 500 people were deported |
| isolationism | a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups. the political affairs of other countries |
| Washington Navel Conference results | 5; US 5; Soviet Union 3; Japan 1.7; France 1.7; Italy |
| Kellogg-Briand pact | Kellogg was from America and Briand was from France they made War Illegal with the Paris Peace Pact |
| Ford McCumber tariff | raised tariff rates from an average of 27 percent to an average of 38.5 percent |
| Dawes Plan | established that the total German debt remained the same, but payments were temporarily lowered to help Germany through economic hard times |
| Warren G. Harding | President from 1921-1923. Died in office. "looked like a President". Called that Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments in an attempt to encourage disarmament to ease tensions in the Far East. |
| Teapot Dome scandal | a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve, that was secretly leased to a private oil company |
| Calvin Coolidge | led the nation through most of the "Roaring Twenties" |
| Herbert Hoover | President from 1929-1933, he was an excellent example of the American self-made man. was blamed for the depression. |
| Charles Darwin: Origin of Species | An essay on the question of how species develop; published in London in 1859. |
| Marxism | The political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, later developed as the basis for communism. |
| Albert Einstein - theory of relativity | The quality or state of being relative. |
| Sigmund Freud (id, ego, superego) | the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends the ego is the organized, realistic part the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role. |
| flappers | A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior. |
| George Herman "Babe" Ruth | the first great home-run hitter |
| Jazz Singer | was the first "talkie" in 1927, starring Al Jolson |
| Charles Lindbergh, Jr. - The Spirit of St. Louis | made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Sacco-Vanzetti Case | was a result of the red scare, came to national prominence |
| National Origins Act | a law that severely restricted immigration |
| Harlem Renaissance | A literary movement in the 1920s that centered on Harlem. |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society organized in the South after the Civil War |
| NAACP - W. E. B. DuBois | founded in 1909, encouraged blacks to actively oppose discrimination. |
| Scopes Trial (Clarence Darrow/ William Jennings Bryan) | a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school |
| installment plans | where instead of paying the full price of an item at the time of purchase, they made a small down payment and then paid monthly installments over a set period of time |
| bull market | a market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying |
| on the margin | by paying as little as 10% of the stock in cash and securing a loan to cover the balance, people could hold stock on margin |
| stock market crash | "Black Tuesday" October 29, 1929 |
| Herbert Hoover | 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt |
| work relief | relief of the unemployed through wages paid for jobs provided by the government on public works |
| Hawley-Smoot tariff | turned out to be the highest in the nation's peacetime history |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans who wanted their bonus early.It happened in July 1932 and it was a forced evacuation. |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression |
| New Deal | Roosevelt's organized programs he made in his first 100 days in office |
| bank holiday | where the governor closes all banks within the state to give banks time to calm the fears of depositors and assure them that their money was safe |
| Social Security Act | established a government fund for unemployment and old-age insurance |
| court-packing plan | where people over 70 get extra justice |
| fireside chat | every week the President would give a address though the radio and would talk about what happened that week |
| CCC | put thousands of men to work on construction and improvement of highways, bridges, parks school, hospitals and other public building |
| TVA | erected dams and hydroelectric along the Tennessee river and its tributaries |
| FDIC | a body that underwrites most private bank deposits. |
| AAA - Agriculture | the government paid farmers not to plant crops or graze livestock on pasture land |
| National Recovery Administration | was established in 1933 to control wages and prices and to limit competition among businesses while encouraging labor organization |
| John L. Lewis/ CIO | was head of the United Min Workers and organized the Committee for Industrial Organizations within the ranks of the A. F. of L. |
| Dust Bowl | was the place that the drought hit the worst, Oklahoma |
| Louisville Flood | 3/4 of Louisville was flooded there was 90 deaths $50 million in damage |
| Shirley Temple | was the most famous actress in the 1930s |
| Lindbergh baby | was a baby that was kidnapped and killed. It was a nationwide story |
| Amelia Earhart | first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Hindenburg disaster | The Hindenburg disaster took place in 1937, as the German passenger airship Hindenburg caught fire and blew up |
| Jesse Owens | United States athlete and Black American whose success in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin outraged Hitler |
| Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Buck | were regional writers in the 1930s |
| T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost | were poets in the 1930s |
| socialism | the influence of modernism that led to the union of the false ecumenism |
| Social Gospel | is the movement which applied Christian ethics to social problems |
| Economic determinism | is where everything points back to the economy |
| pragmatism | the philosophy that an idea or action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural considerations |
| Progressive education | emphasized adjustment to environment and the control of the individual for the sake of society |
| John Dewey | United States who advocated progressive education |
| Secular humanism | Humanism, with regard in particular to the belief that humanity is capable of morality and self-fulfillment without belief in God. |
| Good Neighbor Policy | pledged that we would maintain pleasant relations and generally mind our own business |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | was a good will ambassador |
| J. Edgar Hoover | was head of the FBI and the General Intelligence Division within the Department of Justice |
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