Boom To Bust // WW|| Flashcards
Describe the red scare
Americans fear of a communist revolution taking place in America
Harding//Coolidge belief that was best for America
The business for America
Group that suffered the most under Harding//Coolidge administrations
Farmers
Election of 1920 significant to women
1st national election woman have full suffrage women vote
Impact of mass production
Electrical power
Assembly line
Forms of entertainment
Movies Sports heros Jazz Baseball Football Boxing
Flappers
Wore makeup and dresses, represented all the demands for social freedom wanted by women
5 social improvements from the 1920’s
Penicillin
Anesthesia and sedative
Tuberculosis, diphtheria and small pox are under control
The iron lung is created to help people breath
The radio
Conservative reaction to the 1920’s
They hated it because they said it was easy
Date that the stock market crashed
Oct 29 1929
5 reasons why the stock market crashed
Sharp imbalance between supply and demand.
Demand for durable goods was very low
Federal reserve did not increase the money supply
Weakness for agriculture
Workers wages did not keep up with growing prices
Dust bowl
Severe drought in large sections of the mid west which forced farmers to pick up and move west
Hoover administration do to help Americans
Nothing
4 ways the Great Depression impacted people’s lives
Business failed
Very high unemployment
People became homeless
Dust bowl//agriculture
Who won the election of 1933
Promise the American people
Fdr, new deal for the American people
Goals of the new deal
Relief and reform
Fdr did to help the banks
Created the fdic
Goal of the ccc, cwa, and wpa
Give people jobs
Tva
Transformed the entire Tennessee river valley from poor farm to a rich productive area and it was successful
Fdr do to help agriculture
Paid farmers to reduce their crops
Nra
National recovery administration
Created to enforce codes of the national recovery act
3 parts of the social security act
Elderly, unemployment and handicap
New deal end
1938
5 ways the new deal had an impact on America
Increased the size and shape of the federal government
Gave security against old age and unemployment
Fdr preserved the free enterprise system
Had a major effect on government, economy and American society
Fdr proved a democratic republic could survive a severe crisis without becoming a dictatorship
