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Enacted to carry out the intent of the 18th amendment
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Prohibition of consuming alcohol beverages, production, sale, and transport of alcohol deemed illegal
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Made the advocacy of violence for change illegal
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Historical and critical view of certain passages of the bible and believed they could accept Darwin's theory of evolution without completely abandoning their faith
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Condemned modernism and taught that every word of the bible must be accepted as literally true
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This term symbolized, to powerful business men, the immediate abandonment or foreign and domestic policies by president Wilson, return to high protective tariffs and reduced taxes
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Economic theory that holds that money lent to banks and businesses will trickle down to consumers
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Theory that it is economically attractive to encourage the attainment of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts
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Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during an armed robbery
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Refers to the first generation of artists, writers, and intellectuals that came of age during the first world war
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Intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem,New York, known as the "New Negro Movement'
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Spawned by post war reaction, xenophobic, anti foreign, anti-catholic, anti-jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-communist, anti-internationalist, anti-revolutionist, anti-bootlegger
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Government scandal involving a former U.S Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company
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29th president of the United States
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Men that were friends of Harding whom he appointed to office who used their power to gain money for themselves
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Established number of immigrants at 3% of people of same nationality living in the U.S in 1910
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Rose rates on imported goods in hopes that domestic manufacturing would prosper
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A leader of the American Liberty League who was a former Democratic presidential candidate who highly opposed FDR's deals
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President Hoover stated that anyone could become successful if they worked hard enough
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12.9 million shares were traded as investors rushed to salvage their losses
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Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the Great Depression
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A situation which the value of stocks rises quickly
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Set tax increases ranging from 31% to 49% on foreign imports
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Severe drought hit the Great Plain, killing all crops of the region
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Suspension on the payment of international debts
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Group of world war one veterans marched to demand early release of bonuses promised by congress
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Writer who portrayed the grim life of Chicago's Irish immigrants in his Studs Lonigan trilogy
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Authorized the government to examine the finances of banks closed during the bank holiday and reopen judged to be sound
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Guaranteed individual bank deposits up to 5,000$
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Providing refinancing of small homes to prevent foreclosures
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Provided low-interest farm loans and mortgages to prevent foreclosures on the property of indebted farmers
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Offered outright grants of federal money to states and local governments that were operating soup kitchens and other forms of relief for the jobless and the homeless
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Allotted money to state and local governments for building roads, bridges, and other public works
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Employed young men on projects on federal lands and paid their families small monthly sums
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Hired thousands of people in one of the poorest regions in the nation, Tennessee Valley, to build dams, operate electric power plants, control flooding and erosion, and manufacture fertilizer
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Hired laborers for temporary construction projects sponsored by the federal government
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Regulates the stock market and placed strict limits on speculative practices that led to the Wall Street crash
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Gave both construction industries and homeowners a boost by insuring bank loans for building new houses and repairing old ones
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Provided loans to sharecroppers, tenants, and small farmers. Also established federal camps where migrant workers could find decent housing
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Provided loans for electrical cooperatives to supply power in rural areas
