| A | B |
|---|
| Return to Normalcy | Post WWI disillusionment, wanted to return to isolationism |
| Nativism | Prejudice towards immigrants, resurfaced during the 20's. Seen in the Sacco-Vanzetti case |
| "Melting Pot" | The diversity of America due to immigration |
| "Roaring Twenties" | A time of great social change in America |
| Harlem Renaissance | Flourishing of black art, music, etc during the 20's |
| Prohibition | 18th amendment. Banned the sale of alcohol. Unsuccessful, hard to regulate people's behavior/morals |
| Farmer's Depression | Throughout the 20's due to overproduction |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | 1920's over teaching evolution. A clash between old and new ideas/relgion over science |
| Underlying Causes of the Great Depression | Overproduction, buying on credit, speculation, laissez-faire economics |
| Hoover's response to Great Depression | Did too little to help people, believed in "rugged individualism" |
| Stock Market Crash | 1929, marked the beginning of the Great Depression |
| New Deal | Roosevelt's program to bring America out of depression. More gov't involvement in business/economy. Beginning of the "Welfare State" |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | To help farmers, began subsidizing farmers to decrease production |
| Supreme Court's reaction to the New Deal | Began declaring parts of the New Deal unconstitutional, NIRA, AAA. |
| Roosevelt's "Court Packing Scheme" | In response to New Deal parts being declared unconstitutional; seen as a serious threat to the judiciary and the Constitution. Failed |
| the Wagner Act | Recognizes rights of unions to collectively bargain |
| Presidential powers during the Depression | Greatly expanded |
| Critics of the New Deal | Businesses thought it had too many regulations, taxes, spent too much money |
| FDIC | Insures bank deposits, permanent New Deal reform |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | New Deal reform to regulate the stock market |
