History Standard 4 Vocabulary (last 24)

Question 1

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 1

A period during the 1920s in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture

Question 2

Communism

Answer 2

Economic system in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

Question 3

Red Scare

Answer 3

Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life

Question 4

Palmer Raids

Answer 4

The series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists

Question 5

Nativism

Answer 5

Belief that native-born Americans are superior to newcomers

Question 6

Quotas

Answer 6

A system of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year

Question 7

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 7

Organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups

Question 8

Prohibition

Answer 8

The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol

Question 9

21st Amendment

Answer 9

Repealed the 18th amendment, ending the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol

Question 10

19th Amendment

Answer 10

Guarantees American women the right to vote

Question 11

Speculation

Answer 11

Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of obtaining large profits

Question 12

Buying on margin

Answer 12

System of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest

Question 13

Overproduction

Answer 13

The supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demands

Question 14

Black Tuesday

Answer 14

October 29, 1929, when stock prices fell sharply in the Great Cash

Question 15

Great Depression

Answer 15

Period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared

Question 16

Hoovervilles

Answer 16

Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression

Question 17

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Fireside Chats

Answer 18

Informed radio broadcast in which FDR explained issues and New Deal programs to average Americans

Question 19

Direct Relief

Answer 19

Practice of government giving money or aid to those hurt by the depression

Question 20

Deficit Spending

Answer 20

Practice of a nation paying out more money than it is receiving in revenues

Question 21

New Deal

Answer 21

Programs and legislation enacted by FDR during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform

Question 22

Federal Reserve Act

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Public Works Administration (PWA) (WPA)

Answer 23

New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings

Question 24

Social Security Act

Answer 24

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