2019 1920s and 1930s

Scientific belief that selective genetics can improve the human race.

New Deal programs were to provide

Buying stocks with borrowed money

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sympathized with

Bombs sent through the mail and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to

Led some to mistrust the government

Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

experimented with bolder styles and manners

Hoovervilles, Bonus Army, Bank runs

New Deal programs

Role of government under the New Deal

Ended the Great Depression

Drought and over farming of the Great Plains caused the

19th Amendment

As a result of the New Deal govt. for the first time concerned itself with individuals'

Social Security, TVA, FDIC, FHA

People rely on themselves, not the government or society for their survival

Hoover's economic view

Fear of communism spreading into the U.S.

Primary source of news, entertainment and advertising

Buying on credit, mistakes by the Federal Reserve, trade restriction

Post-WWI disillusioned young artists who rejected materialism

Immigration laws of the 1920s

Provided income to elderly and disabled

Invented the flying boat

Farmers were hurt by

Overproduction and bank failures

1920s symbol of American courage and ingenuity

Year the Stock Market crashed

Smoot-Hawley

Greatly expanded the federal government

Impact of the "Roaring Twenties"

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were

Radios, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators

People thought FDR was becoming too powerful because of his

Now went to college & worked outside the house in larger numbers, voted

Rise and recognition of blacks to the arts

Pres. Harding's foreign policy after WWI

Wanted payment of money due them in 1945

Attorneys in the Scopes Monkey Trial

Hoover's initial solution to the Great Depression

The Scopes Trial was a conflict between