Chapter 13 Vocabulary Flashcards
An organization that worked to stop the sale of alcoholic beverages
Womens’ Christian Temperance Union
A tax on resources taken from the land such as oil and gas
Severance Tax
A secret, racist organization that used violence and intimidation against those, especially immigrants and minorities, whose behavior or actions it did not like
Ku Klux Clan
A state commission whose job it was to regulate transportation and communication companies
Public Service Commission
A break in the levee
Crevasse
The process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official while that official is still in office
Impeachment
To remove or suppress
Censor
Huey Long’s economic program that would have eliminated poverty by giving every family a minimum income
Share Our Wealth Program
The name oven to the program’s enacted by Congress during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first two terms to deal with the problems and hardships caused by the Great Depression
New Deal Program
The depression that began in 1929 with the stock market crash and lasted into the 1940s
Great Depression
A new deal program that provided work for single young men between the ages of 18 and 25; the young men did soil conservation work and some road construction
Civilian Conservation Corps
A new deal program that provided work for men with families; the men built schools, courthouses, parks, and other public buildings; the WPA also hired artists to paint murals on public buildings and writers to compile county information
Works Progress Administration
Built dams on the Tennessee River to control flooding and generate electricity
Tennessee Valley Authority
Insured individual savings accounts so that people did not lose their money if banks failed or closed their doors
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Insure home loans for low-income families
Federal Housing Administration
