| A | B |
|---|
| hobos | homeless people who wandered the country during the Great Depression |
| relief | money provided directly to people in need |
| court-packing plan | Roosevelt's attempt to appoint more Supreme Court justices |
| Public Works Administration | Awarded contracts to construction companies to build highways, dams, and schools |
| bootlegging | made illegal liquor readily available in America |
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration | paid farmers to take land out of production in order to raise prices |
| deficit spending | paying with borrowed money |
| John Maynard Keynes | British economist who argued that government should spend heavily during a recession |
| Supply-side economists | Supported promoting economic growth through lower taxes |
| speculators | investors trying to make a quick profit on the stock market |
| eugenics | the study of methods of improving the quality of the human race |
| Scopes trial | questioned the legality of teaching evolution in public schools |
| new morality | change in lifestyle during the 1920's |
| reparations | payments required as a punishment for starting a war |
| bull market | rising stock prices over a long period |
| open shop | business where employees are not required to join a union |
| creationism | Gos made the world according to Biblical teaching |
| provincialism | narrow focus of local interest |
| speakeasies | secret bars |
| Harlem Renaissance | focus of African American culture during the 1920s |
| Emergency Quota Act | limited the admission of immigrants to the U.S. based on their ethnic identity and national origin |
| fireside chats | FDR's radio addresses to the nation during the Great Depression |
| bank holidays | used by state governors to allow banks to avoid bank runs |
| shantytowns | communities of makeshift shacks on public lands |
| installment plan | buying now and making payments each month |
| margin | buying stocks on borrowed money |
| Dust Bowl | drought-related conditions in the Great Plains |
| Black Tuesday | stock market crash of 1929 |
| Bonus Army | World War 1 veterans who marched on Washington D.C. |
| soup kitchens | private charities set up to give poor people a meal |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | international agreement that attempted to outlaw war |
| Washington Naval Conference | attempt to control major weapons |
| mass production | large-scale product manufacturing usually by machinery |
| Teapot Dome | Scandal involving Harding administration Secretary of the Interior |
| Ohio Gang | friends of president Harding |
| anarchists | opposed to all forms of government |
| flapper | the "new woman" of the 1920s |
| jazz | improvisational music of the 1920s |
| Great Migration | movement of African Americans from the South to Northern cities |
| isolationism | a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs |
