| A | B |
|---|
| 19th amendment | gave women suffrage |
| "Flappers" | young women of the 20s who smoke, drank, wore short skirts, and cut their hair short |
| Warren G. Harding | first president of the 20s who promised a return to "normalcy"; was remembered for many scandals |
| Washington Conference | this attempted to prevent an arms race in 1921 by limiting the size of navies |
| 18th amendment | Prohibition |
| Wets | nickname for those who wanted to keep alcohol legal |
| Drys | those who supported prohibition |
| Al Capone | famous Chicago gangster during prohibition |
| 21st amendment | this was passed to end prohibition |
| Volstead Act | this was passed to enforce prohibition |
| speakeasies | illegal bars during prohibition |
| Palmer Raids | a Red Scare during the early 1920s that led to the arrests of many immigrants |
| National Origins Act | a law passed in the 1920s to place quotas on how many immigrants could enter the U.S. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | two Italian immigrants accused of robbery and murder; many believed they were found guilty only because a Red Scare was going on |
| Ku Klux Klan | this had a big revival in the 1920s and its influence spread to the North and the West |
| Henry Ford | mass produced the automobile and made it affordable for most Americans |
| Charles Lindbergh | In 1927 he was the first to fly a solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (NY to Paris) |
| Flagpole sitting, marathon dances, goldfish swallowing | crazy fads of the 1920s |
| movies and radio | beginning in the 1920s, these began to have a big impact on our culture (fashion, hair styles,music, etc.) |
| Jazz | popular music of the 1920s |
| Al Smith | ran for President in 1928, but lost largely because he was Catholic |
| Scopes Trial | involved a Tennessee teacher tried for teaching evolution |
| suburbs | these grew thanks to the greater use of the automobile |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis | famous writers of the 1920s |
| Harlem Rennaissance | period in the 20s that saw a growth of African American culture and pride |
| Marcus Garvey | supported a "Back to Africa" movement for African Americans in the 20s |
| laissez faire | under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, the government took this attitude about regulating business |
| Black Tuesday | the day the stock market crashed; Oct. 29, 1929 |
| Herbert Hoover | he did not believe that the government should give handouts of relief to people when the depression struck |
| immigrants | mostly these people were arrested by the Palmer Raids |
| Red Scare | a fear of communism |
| Chicago | city that had a bad race riot in 1919 |
| laissez faire, overproduction, too much credit buying | causes of the Great Depression |
| Dust Bowl | an area of severe drought in the Midwest during the 1930s |
| Okies | people who fled the Dust Bowl and went west |
| Bonus Army | WWI veterans who marched on Washington in 1932 to demand an early payment of some money for their war service |
| New Deal | name for FDR's program to fight the Depression |
| Hundred Days | first few months of FDR's first term when many laws were passed to deal with the Depression |
| high unemployment and low prices (deflation) | characteristics of a depression |
| Keynesian Economics | the idea of using taxation and government spending to control the economy |
| Fireside Chats | the name for FDR's radio talks to the people |
| Bank Holiday | when FDR closed all the banks to stop bank runs and to restore confidence in the banks |
| National Recovery Act (NRA) | created to help business recover; set up codes of fair business for each industry |
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | the federal government build dams to produce hydroelectric power |
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration | this was created in the New Deal to pay farmers not to plant |
| overproduction | this was the chief problem faced by farmers |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | passed a minimum wage law and set maximum work hours; it also restricted child labor |
| Social Security Act | passed in 1935, this gave a pension to retired workers |
| Huey Long | critic of FDR who came up with the Share Our Wealth plan |
| Dr. Francis Townsend | He wanted to give anyone 60 and over $200 a month and they had to spend it all |
| Schechter v. the U.S. | this declared the NRA and much of the First New Deal unconstitutional |
| Public Works Administration | This New Deal agency tried to make jobs for people |
| Wagner Act | Also known as the National Labor Relations Act; it gave more power to unions |
| collective bargaining | this is when unions sit down with employers to work out a labor contract; the Wagner Act gave this right to unions |
| Supreme Court | FDR tried to change this to protect his Second New Deal |
| Marion Anderson | famous Black singer who was denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall because of her race |
| "pump priming" | the idea of using government spending to get the economy moving again |
| Separation of Powers | FDR's court packing plan was seen as a threat to this |
| Three R's | relief, recovery, reform |
| Charles Coughlin | the "Radio Priest"; a critic of FDR |
| Mixed economy | the idea that our economy is part capitalism and part socialism |
| Roosevelt coalition | FDR joined together Southerners, union workers, women, and African Americans into the Democratic Party |
| deficit spending | spending more that you are bringing in; it was an important concept in Keynesian economics |
| FDIC | this insures your money in a bank account |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | gave jobs to men aged 18-25 fighting forest fires, beautifying parks, and planting trees |
| interstate commerce | the federal government can only regulate this |
