A | B |
mass media of 1920s and 30s | radio, movies, newspapers/magazines |
Fireside Chats | how President F. Roosevelt spoke to Americans |
Newpapers/magazines | told people how to think and dress |
Scopes Trial | demonstrated conflict between religion and science |
Flappers | women who did not have traditional values |
Ku Klux Klan | hated immigrants and blacks |
speakeasies | illegal bars resulting from 18th amendment (prohibition) |
Stock market crash | 1929, due to too much credit and bad investments |
bank runs | when everyone tried to pull their money out of banks at same time |
Causes of Great Depressoin | stock market crash, failure of Fed. Reserve, High protective tariffs that stopped trade |
Impact of Depression | homelessnes, jobless, political unrest, farmers lose farms |
New Deal | F. Roosevelt's efforts to solve Great Depression |
Government | who people expected to solve their problems |
Franklin Roosevelt | said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" |
relief measure of New Deal | Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
recovery measure of New Deal | Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) |
Reform measure of New Deal | Federal Depisit Insurance Corporationn (FDIC) |
Social Security Act | provided safegards for workers |