US History 2 Lesson 3

The three 3s (the main focus areas of the New Deal)

1929-33 president (during the Great Depression)

(1914) agency for consumer protection and fighting anti-competitive business practices

1925 judicial case in Tennessee determining that teaching evolution in schools was illegal

Shantytown established by people who had lost their homes during the Hoover administration

Beginning in 1916, move of around 6 million African-Americans out of the South, heading North

1931 act under President Hoover providing emergency funds to banks

US president from 1933 to 1945 — the longest running president, serving four terms

30 radio broadcasts by FDR explaining his political agenda to average Americans

The period of economic depression beginning in 1929 and running through the late 1930s

29 October 1929, when the Stock Market crashed, leading to the Great Depression

Organization founded in 1920 that funded the defense of John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial

government agency created in 1933 under FDR providing jobs in constructing schools and roads

The NAACP, an organization founded in 1909 and promoting education for blacks, stands for what

1923-29 president (right before The Great Depression). known as an honest man.

20s women with short hair and dresses, who danced, smoked and were more sexually promiscuous

1935 act insuring retirees, giving unemployment comp, family aid, disabled aid

1921 act placing a limit on immigration

anti-black, Catholic, Jew, communist, union, and immigrant organization founded in 1915

Influenza virus that infected 25% of US population

policy by which the government borrows money in order to stimulate the economy

Two Italian immigrants found guilty of murder and robbery on circumstantial evidence (1921)

1921 international meeting by President Harding to reduce the number of warships in the world

1914 organization promoting economic independence by buying goods only from black businesses

policy of not having government interfere in business matters; Coolidge supported this policy

offshoot union of the AFL for industrial workers; opened its membership to African-Americans

Workers’ union founded in 1905 to which many Communist Party members belonged

A person who buys stocks and shares on the Stock Market to make money

More tranquil and comfortable area just outside a city in America

1933 act under FDR to promote industrial growth while protecting workers’ rights

1886 union that grew during the FDR administration and needed to split due to its size

US, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal signed what treaty

Early 1930s when drought led to severe dust storms devastating farms in the Great Plains

1931 act under President Hoover lowering interest rates on housing

Form of nationalism and anti-foreigner sentiment using the slogan “Keep America for Americans”

The Twenty-Second Amendment did what? (1947)

Period after WWI when the U.S. waged war on communists in America

Negro cultural explosion in NYC lasting from after WWI to around the mid-1930s

1937 agency that provided loans to small farmers and created camps for migrant farmworkers

government agency created in 1934 under FDR to regulate the Stock Market

1922 tariff enacted under President Harding; it raised tariffs to the highest level ever

1921 scandal involving the Secretary of the Interior over improper leasing of federal lands

description of FDR’s programs during the Great Depression, referring to their many initialisms

place on Wall Street where speculators trade stocks and shares in companies

paying for products in installments after receiving the goods

1919–1920 series of warrantless searches led by U.S. Attorney General to hunt down communists

Religious movement arising in rural areas that promoted a strict interpretation of the Bible

1887 agency by the Interstate Commerce Act to regulate transportation (railways) pricing

The Twenty-First Amendment did what? (1933)

FDR’s plan to end the Great Depression through a series of acts and programs

US president from 1921 to 1923; he is known for his “Return to Normalcy” speech

1935 agency providing jobs building roads and public buildings as well as funding for the arts

The policy of isolating one’s country from the affairs of other nations

Acts under Coolidge that significantly reduced business taxes

1933 act under FDR to regulate crop prices by preventing over-production

return to a state of peace, prosperity, and political stability like before Progressivism

(1934–1937): acts passed by Congress declaring the US neutral on international issues

Organized crime boss who made his fortune through selling liquor illegally

the agency created in 1933 providing jobs in parks and forests to preserve the environment