Unit 6 test: 1920s and the Great Depression

Speakeasies were a place people could ____ during prohibition.

F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Organize crime during the 1930s got a boost in power from ___ alcohol.

Pro-business president, known now for corruption in his administration

Made welfare available.

Liberated women in the 20s that dared to smoke and/or drink in public

What were nativists?

Irwin Investor says: "Thank goodness for the ___; now I can invest with confidence!"

___ interpret the Bible literally, therefore do not accept evolution.

Unplanned ___ might mean cities spread out of control

Program to create as many jobs as possible, as quickly as possible

To assimilate foreigners, I make them ___ like the dominant culture.

Veterans who camped out in front of the White House until they got paid.

Louis Armstrong:

Langston Hughes:

______ believed that government should control the economy; was anti-capitalist

Pro-business vice president of Harding; took over after Harding died

Hoover thought business had the answer to the Great Depression; Roosevelt thought that __ did.

Greater productivity resulted when factories established ___ of workers.

When government tries to help out business or farmers by stabilizing prices, this is called:

This program was begun by Pres. Hoover, and it eventually bore his name.

Families gathered around the __ to hear news, entertainment, "fireside chats" of FDR

Hoover started the ___ to try and get the housing industry going again.

Passage of the 18th amendment was also called:

A friendly Congress passed FDR's New Deal programs, but then they were struck down by the ___.

Pres. Hoover encouraged people to show "rugged individualism," not ask for government ___.

Create electrical cooperatives among farmers

___ was a British economist who theorized you got out of a depression by spending a lot

_____ tariff passed to try and protect domestic businesses

Invest in ___ if you want to buy and sell companies' shares.

What was "The Grapes of Wrath" about?

Speculators bought _____, which means borrowing money to buy stocks

Promoted public art

Painting of Dust Bowl farmer and his daughter

Outlawed unfair labor practices like firing somebody for no good reason

Charles Lindbergh flew across the _____ in the "Spirit of St. Louis"

____ was the day the stock market crashed in 1929.

The ___ insured bank deposits up to $5000.

African American artistic community in 1920s

Shantytowns were sometimes referred to as "_____" in reference to his disappointing policies.

Workers for the CCC planted a lot of __.

The ___ protected workers' rights to unionize.

Sacco and Vanzetti?

Sale of federal land by interior secretary to business interests in exchange for bribe

Being able to buy all the consumer goods I've always wanted would improve my _____.

I might use credit to buy consumer goods if I don't have enough __ right now to buy them.

George Gershwin: