Ch. 20, 22, 23 SG Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| effect of the 18th amendment | prohibition of alcohol |
| Volstead Act | enforcing prohibition was the job of the treasury |
| KKK decline in late 1920s | result of scandals and power struggles involving its leaders |
| UNIA | promoted black pride and unity |
| Harlem Renaissance | flowering of African American art New York |
| Sultan of Swat | Babe Ruth |
| 21st Amendment | repealed 18th Amendment |
| John T. Scopes | taught evolution and was subsequently arrested and put on trial |
| hired public relations guy, $8 of every $10 would go to them | How did the KKK add membership in early 1920s? |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | created a fuhrer, executed, anarchist from Italy |
| shantytowns | Hoovervilles |
| Alfred E. Smith | first Roman Catholic to be elected to run for president in 1929 |
| stock market | system of buying and selling goods |
| relief | money given directly to the poor |
| foreclosed | banks taking possession of properties |
| installment plan | made small payments over periods of months |
| margin call | demanding an investor repay loan at once |
| Dust Bowl | from Dakotas to Texas, severely damaged from dust storm in 1930s |
| Herbert Hoover | President during the Great Depression in 1929 |
| Social Security Act | insurance bill that gave security to elderly and unemployed |
| New Freedom | blamed large trusts for Depression, but believed the government had to restore competition of the economy by breaking up big companies |
| Emergency Banking Relief Act | helped solve banking crisis by declaring gold standard would not be abandoned |
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration | payed farmers not to grow certain crops |
| Senator Huey Long | wanted the government to share the wealth of the rich |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | first movie |
| overproduction | key cause of the Great Depression |
| stock market crash | weakened the nation's banks because banks had invested their deposits in stock market |
| stock prices in the late 1920s | generally reflected stock's true value |
| WWI Veterans in DC in 1932 | Bonus March to try to get bonus that was due to them in 1945 |
| 1927 film | the release of the first motion picture with sound |
| Cotton club | Harlem night spot where many African American entertainers got their start |
| NAACP event in 1930 | one of the greatest political triumphs with a defeat of a racist judge nominated for supreme court |
| investors began to sell stock | Why did stock prices decline in 1929 |
| by lowering loan rates | How did the Federal reserve contribute to the Great Depression? |
| people lost life savings | What happened when a bank collapsed during the Great Depression? |
| Scopes | trial tested state law that banned the teaching of evolution |
| flappers | women dressed in these in the 1920s |
| Eugenics | pseudoscience that deals with improvement of hereditary traits |
| polio | disease that FDR had that made him crippled |
| speakeasies | secret bars |
| New Deal | FDR's policies for ending the Depression |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans who marched in DC in 1932 |
| mass media | radio, movies, and newspapers |
| Hoovervilles | shantytowns, shacks |
| bull market | long period of rising stock prices |
| 1929 | stock market crash occured |
| Harlem | center of African Am artistic thoughts in 1920s |
| Great Migration | African Americans moved from south to north |
| jazz | influenced by dixieland music and ragtime |
| Catholics in 1920s | Alfred E Smith was Catholic in 1928 election |
| Fair Labor | abolished child labor |
| Hundred Days | time FDR passed 15 bills in 1933 |
| gold standard | one ounce of gold could be exchanged for a certain amount of dollars |
| broker state | new deal established what some called |
| sit-down | workers refused to leave factory |
| fireside chats | FDR addressed people directly about ending the Great Depression |
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