| A | B |
|---|
| Isolationism | Pulling away from worldly affair |
| Communism | Supports government control over property to create equality |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Immigrant anarchist accused of murder |
| Quota System | System that established maximum number of people who could enter U.S from each country |
| John L. Lewis | President of the united mine workers |
| Fordney-McCumber | High tax on imports adopted in 1992 |
| Ohio Gang | Harding’s friends and advisors |
| Teapot Dome ScandaL | Scandal surrounding Albert Harding |
| Urban Sprawl | he outward expansion of cities |
| Installment Plan | An easy way to borrow money to buy goods |
| Prohibition | The era that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| Speakeasy | Hidden saloons and nightclubs the illegally sold liquor |
| Bootlegger | Smugglers who brought alcohol in from Canada and the Carrabin |
| Fundamentalism | Religious movement based on the belief that everything written in the bible was literally true |
| Clarence Darrow | Famous trail lawyer |
| Scopes Trial | Trial of john scopes for teaching evolution |
| Flapper | Young women who embraced new fashions and values of 1920’s |
| Charles Lindbergh | First person to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| James Johnson | Poet and civil rights leader |
| Harlem Renaissance | African American artistic movement |
| Credit | Short term loans to buy goods with promises to pay later. |
| Speculaton | Investments in high risk stocks |
| Black Tuesday | Oct 29th |
| Great Depression | Period of bad economic times in the United States that lasted from 1929 to 1941. |
| Dust Bowl | Area of Great Plains made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms in the 1930’s. |
| Direct Relief | Money or food given directly from the government to the needy |
| Herbert Hoover | 31st president |
| Bonus Army | Unemployment World War I veterans who marched to Washington to demand their war bonuses |
| Federal Home Loan Bank Act | Law passed in 1931 to reduce mortgage rates to save farmers from foreclosure. |
| Reconstruction Finance Corp | Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 32nd President |
| New Deal | Franklin Roosevelt’s programs to end the depression |
| Deficit Spending | Spending more than the government receives in revenue |
| Wagner Act | Law to protect worker’s rights |
| Social Security Act | Program that provided aid to the people with disabilities and pensions for retired workers. |
| New Deal Coalition | Voters from different groups that supported the Democratic party because of the New Deal. |
| F.D.I.C. | Insurance for bank savings |
| S.E.C. | Agency to regulate stock markets |
| N.L.R.B. | Agency to regulate business practices |
| T.V.A. | Regional work project of lasting value |
