Chapter 25 - The Great Depression

Question 1

Dust Bowl

Answer 1

A large drought in the midwest from Texas to the Dakotas

Question 2

Black Shirts

Answer 2

A group in Atlanta that fought for the dismissal of all Blacks from their jobs until whites had jobs

Question 3

International Labor Defense

Answer 3

aided black teen defendants in Scottsboro case, associated with communist party

Question 4

Walter White

Answer 4

Secretary of the NAACP, implored blacks not to work as strikebreakers.

Question 5

Robert and Helen Merrell Lynd

Answer 5

Wrote the book “Middletown” was the study of American Sociology

Question 6

The Great Crash

Answer 6

Also known as Black Tuesday, the stock market crashed. October 29, 1929

Question 7

Black Tuesday

Answer 7

the day the stock market crashed and most stocks became worthless Oct, 29, 1929

Question 8

Reparations

Answer 8

war payments that are mandatory to be paid

Question 9

Total Money Supply

Answer 9

total amount of monetary assets available in an economy at a specific time

Question 10

Deflation

Answer 10

The reduction of the general level of prices in an economy

Question 11

Bread Lines

Answer 11

lines of unemployed people waiting to receive free food

Question 12

Economic Royalists

Answer 12

Blamed for the depression, people prominent in Finance and industry who in general opposed FDR’s tendency to centralize the government

Question 13

Dale Carnegie

Answer 13

American Writer and developer of famous educational course in self-improvement, governmentship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills. Wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People

Question 14

Tobacco Road

Answer 14

novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia Sharecroppers. It became a popular Broadway Play

Question 15

Native Son

Answer 15

a novel by Richard Wright about a young man living in extreme poverty in south side of chicago in the 30’s

Question 16

The Popular Front

Answer 16

A broad condition of different political graphings, most important being communists

Question 17

Anutfacists

Answer 17

the opposition to facists ideologies, groups, and individuals

Question 18

American Communists Party

Answer 18

organized unemployed, staged hunger marches in DC

Question 19

Socialists Party

Answer 19

led by Norman Thomas, cited the economic crisis as evidence of the failure of capitalism

Question 20

The Grapes of Wrath

Answer 20

The most succesful chronicler of social condition during the Great Depression, written by John Stanbeck

Question 21

Herbert Hoover

Answer 21

President during the great depression, thought that it would fix itself

Question 22

Agricultural Marketing Act

Answer 22

established the first major government program to help farmers maintain price

Question 23

Hawley Smoot Act

Answer 23

raised tariff on over 20000 imported goods

Question 24

Hooverville

Answer 24

villages set up by people who had lost their homes. Was called this to mock Hoover

Question 25

Reconstruction Finance Cooperation

Answer 25

they were to give out 2 billion dollars in loans to insurance and railroad companies

Question 26

Farmers Holiday Association

Answer 26

midewest farmers who endorsed thewithholding farm products from the market, organized by Milo Reno

Question 27

Bonus Expeditionary Force

Answer 27

Group of WW1 Veterans who wanted the bonus that congress had promised them 20 years early

Question 28

General Douglas MaxArthur

Answer 28

General Chief of Staff of the US army during the 30’s and played a prominent role in the Pacific threat in WWII

Question 29

FDR

Answer 29

32 president elected, instituted the New Deal to counter the great depression

Question 30

Brain Trust

Answer 30

the professors who advised FDR

Question 31

Henry Luce

Answer 31

American Magazine who was called the most influential private citizen in the Americas of his day. Was in Life and Fortune Magazine