Unit 7 test
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- This was defended at the Scopes Trial.
- Fundamentalism
- Illegal transfer of public lands and illegal drilling by oil companies
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Campaigned on the idea of restoring "normalcy"
- Warren G. Harding
- One of the effects of this was a rise in organized crime
- Prohibition
- This is the name for the era after the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect.
- Prohibition
- This was an underground "saloon" or nightclub where liquor was sold illegaly.
- speakeasy
- This Protestant movement was based on the literal, word for word interpretation of the Bible.
- Fundamentalism
- The government failed to budget enough men and money to enforce this
- Prohibition
- Political and social system adopted in Russia after its revolution.
- Communism
- Accused of a robbery and murder, they were executed in the late 1920's
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Idea that America should mind its own business and not be drawn into foreign affairs.
- Isolationism
- Leader of the United Mine Workers during their sucessful strike
- John L. Lewis
- Secret organization that wanted"America for Americans", meaning white, Protestant Americans.
- Ku Klux Klan
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Vice President who moved to the
White House after Harding's death. - Calvin Coolidge
- Attorney General who authorized raids on suspected anarchists and communists
-
A. Mitchell Palmer
(Palmer raids) - Johnt T. Scopes challenged a tennessee Law that forbade the teaching of
- creationism
- Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)?
- Aviator
- This term is the name of the most widely used measure of the stock market's health
- Dow Jones Industrial Average
- This term specifically refers to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929
- Black Tuesday
- This Republican won the presidential election of 1928
- Herbert Hoover
- This term refers to making extremely risky business transactions or purchases on the chance of making quick profit
- Speculation
- This reduced the flow of goods into the U.S.and prevented other countries from buyin U.S. exports.
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
- This is the period from 1929 and 1940 in which the unemployement rose and economy declined.
- Great Depression
- Consumer buys now and pays later, usually on and installement plan with interest.
- Credit
- This term refers to paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
- Buying on margin
- A government system for giving payments of food to the poor.
- Direct Relief
- The candidate that ran for president in 1932.
- Herbert Hoover and Franklin d. Roosevelt.
- Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington
- World War I veterans and their families
- This created an agency to set fair prices on products and establish labor standards.
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- This helped create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams.
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- It paid farmers to lower production in order to raise crop prices and farm income.
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- It Authorized the Treasure Department to inspect banks and close those that were unsound.It restored confidence in the system.
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- It put 3 million young men to work building roads, parks and flood control projects.
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- Corporations had to provide complete information on all stock offerings.
- Federal Securities Act.
- Agency to set fair prices on products and establish labor standards.
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- Provides old-age insurance program.
- Social Security Act
- It provides programs that aid needy families with children and the needy disabled.
- Social Security Act
- In 1934 it was created to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds.
- Securities and Exchange Commission.
- This corporation protects peopl's samvings agaist loss in the event of a bank failure.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Created under the Wagner Act, it continues to act as a mediator in disputes between unions and employers.
- National Labor Relations Board
- The first major action President Roosevelt took?
- Closed all of the nation's banks and ordered inspections
- A New Deal Legislation was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
- National Indurstrial Recovery Act
- Who was the first women to serve in the cabinet?
- Francis Perkins`
- Was most directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting peopl back to work.
- Works Progress Administration
- What part did Eleanor Roosevelt have in the Roosevelt administration?
- An important advisor on domestic policy
- She was very concerned for African Americans Civil Rights.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- In 1932 he promised to help the forgotten man.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Royal Oak priest with a national radio audience.
- Fr. Charles Coughlin
- She had a difficult childhood and wanted to do good for others.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- What was the first three months of FDR's Presidency called.
- Hundred Days
- He governed a southern state and helped the poor and gained followers with his Share Our Wealth program.
- Huey Long
- He approved food relief in Europe after WWI but felt food relief In American would weaken individualism.
- Herbert Hoover
- A law restricting the number of immigrants who could come to the U.S.
- Emergency Quota Act of 1921
- Persons who wanted to overthrow governments.
- Anarchists
- Federal agents couldn't close down his activities until they got him for not paying his income tax.
- Al Capone
- Musician/singer who became very famous through the Harlem Renaissance.
- Louis Armstrong
- Illegal round-ups of persons who were suspected of being a threat to the country
- Palmer Raids
- Public servants stopped work because wages had not kept up with the increase of prices during the war.
- Boston Police Strike
- Communist takeover of Russia started this fear in many countries
- Red Scare.
- First cabinet member to be convicted of a felony.
- Albert Fall