Unit 4 Voc. 1920s, Great Depression and New Deal (AH2)

Program to provide social ins. to retirees, unemployed, disabled, & families w/dependents

Only person elected to 4 terms as U.S. Pres. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

Growth of cities caused by industrialization.

Constructed dams & power plants in the TN Valley region generate electricity & prevent floods.

Regulates the stock market & enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks & bonds.

Explosion of African-American culture in the 1920s.

Was a part of FDR’s New Deal legislation that insured bank deposits up to $2500.

1925 TN court case : Fundamentalist religious beliefs vs Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

Assembly line production applied to automobiles. Model T affordable car for the working class.

Materialism was overshadowing personal fulfillment. Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald

Food administration leader for American WWI effort, would later become President

Refers to the day that the Wall Street Stock Market crashed on October 29, 1929.

Trial & exe. of Italian immigrants over the issue of anarchism; more than on evidence.

Post WWI – late 1920’s – failed attempt to outlaw war

Involved the oil industry’s bribery of Albert Fall, in order to drill for oil in public lands

1929-1941: economic downturn, uneven distribution of income, & massive unemployment,

Idea that people should be able to succeed thru their own efforts. Pres. Hoover’s philosophy.