-
A leader of the American Liberty League who was a former Democratic presidential candidate and highly opposed FDR's ideals.
-
movement created by women to support prohibition by including religious values to get people to quit drinking
-
meet at Niagara falls to create demands for the and to promote complete equality for Blacks in America
-
Bull moose party, created by Roosevelt, was separate from the 2 main parties and focused more on what the people wanted
-
American novelist who used blunt prose to attack profiteers and promoters in his book The Financer
-
the Theory of evolution from Charles Darwin began to grow in popularity and challenged religion, swaying Americans away from the church after WWI
-
congress enforcing prohibition but wasn't effect due to corruption and bribery
-
after WWI, 13 days of racial violence on South Side of Chicago leave tons of people dead, hurt and homeless
-
After WWI, fundamentalism was created that was a strict following of scripture, rivaled conservative Americans
-
Immigration during this time was mostly from eastern Europe and most Americans did not want them to come over because they were from communist nations bordering the soviet union
-
economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers
-
this term came to symbolize, to powerful businessmen
-
not active during this time but wages were at its highest ever due to the booming economy
-
the market was sky rocketing due to a manufacturing boom, resulted in the quality of life to rise for Americans, only to crash during the great depression
-
car manufacturing boomed due to technology advancements and the economic boom of the 1920s
-
places where people could drink alcohol, it was illegal
-
New societal shift in the 1920s, characterized by use of credit, installment plan purchasing, lucrative advertising
-
term used to describe that the men who survived WW1 were too old to learn new trades
-
black culture grew from the Harlem Renaissance when a music and art explosion occurred and focused on the Black community
-
one of the first African American Jazz performers, was an icon during the jazz age
-
the KKK sees more memberships during the 20s due to more activists for African American equality
-
prohibition gained support from conservatives because they thought young people wanted to stray away from tradition, while young people were actually against it
-
this act restricted immigration to the united states and only allowed certain number of people to come over
-
A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company
-
allowed news to be broadcasted over great distances instantly, also brought a new form of entertainment for Americans at home, made news papers less reliable
-
American author of The Great Gatsby, well known during the roaring 20s but hit the bottom during the Great Depression
-
American author and journalist, affected by WWI, he was famous for his novels that reflected the disillusionment of Americans with propaganda and patriotism
-
film that ushered in new era of sound and color movies; also exemplified popularity of jazz music
-
Stock Market crash that lead to the great depression, put nearly a quarter of Americans out of work
-
nicknamed black Tuesday as being the day the stock market crashed, beginning the start of the Great Depression
-
after years of huge economic boom, the stock market crash at the end of the decade and is known as the worst economic struggle in American history
-
first writer in the US to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature
-
during the 20s, 70 banks a year fell across the country despite the economic boom, in the first months of the crash, 744 banks fell, this lead to no money for farmers to grow food and no consumer consuption
-
Hoover supported and signed a 42% tax on foreign products
-
dust storms in the mid west that destroyed American agriculture lands due to over use of the land
-
due to the dust bowl, many farming families abandoned their farms in the mid west and moved east and west in order to find work
-
a policy by president Hoover to give collapsing rail road companies, banks and other essential companies $1.5 billion to avoid collapse
-
projects for workers to do to benefit society like building roads, sewers, and dams
-
required all corporations to provide information on stocks and made them liable to misrepresentation
-
backs that struggled were given federal assistance in order to reopen, usually 75% of the banks reopened after a few days
-
a corporation to hire local people and get them back to work by building hydro-electric dams and offered cheap employee housing
-
this act gave loans to farmers who were struggling and on the verge of bankruptcy
-
corporation that gave jobs to millions to build irrigation systems and to fight fires, while paying each employee $30 a month
-
Law that created the federal deposit insurance corporation which insured peoples banking deposits, something that wasn't a thing before
-
signed by president Roosevelt, his programs were short term and were meant to provide immediate recovery by employing mass amounts of people and establishing a minimum wage
-
the bank holiday was a close of all banks so the government could inspect them to see if they were on the verge of collapse, the sound banks stayed ip and the struggling ones got assistance
-
a program that gave the states money to build 225,000 miles work of road, money to build thousands of new schools and athletic events in order to keep the public working and benefiting society
-
The system of distributing federal funds to retired and disabled Americans in order for people to have some money
-
it replaced the AAA in which farmers were paid in order to cut production and to plant crops that weren't as soil depleting
-
this act established a federal minimum wage and a standard 40 hour work week for everyone, this began to pull workers out of poverty
