History Standard 4 Vocabulary (last 24) Flashcards
Harlem Renaissance
A period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture
Communism
Economic system in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
Red Scare
Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
Palmer Raids
The series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists
Nativism
Belief that native-born Americans are superior to newcomers
Quotas
A system of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year
Ku Klux Klan
Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups
Prohibition
The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol
21st Amendment
Repealed the 18th amendment, ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol
19th Amendment
Guarantees American women the right to vote
Speculation
Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits
Buying on margin
System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest
Overproduction
The supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demands
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Cash
Great Depression
Period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared
Hoovervilles
Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
The 32nd president of the United States who engineered the New Deal and led the country during World War II until his death in 1945
Fireside Chats
Informed radio broadcast in which FDR explained issues and New Deal programs to average Americans
Direct Relief
Practice of government giving money or aid to those hurt by the depression
Deficit Spending
Practice of a nation paying out more money than it is receiving in revenues
New Deal
Programs and legislation enacted by FDR during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform
Federal Reserve Act
1913 law that placed national banks under the control of a Federal Reserve Board, which runs regional banks that hold the reserve funds from commercial banks, sets interest rates, and supervises commercial banks
Public Works Administration (PWA) (WPA)
New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings
Social Security Act
1935 law that set up a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance, and created insurance for victims of work-related activities, also provided aid for poverty-stricken mothers and children, the blind, and the disabled
