VUS 10 key terms

Question 1

Illegal bars where people went to drink illegal alcohol during prohibition.

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speakeasies

Question 2

1935 act passed to help retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities and families with dependent children.

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Social Security Act

Question 3

Roosevelt’s plan to help the problems of the Great Depression including helping the poor & recovering the economy.

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The New Deal

Question 4

October 29, 1929; the worst day in stock market history where prices fell sharply.

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Black Tuesday

Question 5

Radio speeches given by Franklin D. Roosevelt to encourage citizens during the “Great Depression”

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Fireside Chats

Question 6

Free-thinking young women who embraced new fashions and attitudes in the 1920s.

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flappers

Question 7

Scientific theory that all life, including humans, evolved from simpler life forms.

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Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Question 8

White Supremacist domestic terrorist group that used violence to try to restore white supremacy

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Ku Klux Klan

Question 9

means of communication to reach a large audience (radio, newspapers & movies)

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mass media

Question 10

This amendment gave woment the right to vote in 1920

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19th

Question 11

President during the Great Depression and World War II (1933-1945); responsible for the “New Deal” and social programs.

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Franklin Roosevelt

Question 12

The banning of the manufacture, sale and possession of alcohol (1919-1933). 18th Amendment

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Prohibition

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