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nm history ch 4&5 Flashcards

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1930 that attempted to stem the loss of American jobs by making foreign products more expensive; the law resulted in a trade war that proved harmful to the world economy

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff

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Albuquerque politician during the 1930s who was able to draw a lot of federal money to NM

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Governor Clyde Tingley

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area of the Southern plains hit by an environmental disaster during the 1930s

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Dust Bowl

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a sudden, economically disastrous, drop in prices

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deflation

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bootcamp-style program that hired young men to work for 6 month stints

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Civilian conservation corps

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change to the Constitution that gave women the vote

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19th amendment

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Democratic president who oversaw the passage and administration of the New Deal

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President Roosevelt

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Depression Era teacher who encouraged Indian students to create art in their own traditions

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Dorothy Dunn

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federal agent who attempted to give Native Americans in New Mexico more independence

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John Collier

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federal program that hired Americans to build large public works like dams, bridges, and roads

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Public Works Administration

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first acting governor in the United States who was a woman; only governor of NM for 16 days

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Governor Soledad chavez de chacon

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first female Hispanic governor of a state; currently New Mexico’s governor

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governor susana martinez

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government program to help students stay in school during the Depression

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national youth administration

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idea that White, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon culture should be the only culture tolerated or celebrated

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100% americanism

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influential and well-educated advocate for passage of the 19th Amendment in New Mexico

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nina otero-warren

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intimate Presidential radio broadcasts designed to lift Americans’ spirits during the Depression

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fireside chats

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law that allowed workers in the US to form unions so that they could negotiate for better wages

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national industrial recovery act

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made the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal

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18th amendment

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name for a large set of 1930s policies that greatly expanded the government’s role in the economy

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new deal

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name for people who produced illegal alcohol during Prohibition

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bootleggers

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New Deal program that employed painters and sculptors

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Federal Art Project

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nickname for migrants forced out of areas affected by the Dust Bowl

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Okies

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NM senator whose Washington connections served him well in attracting New Deal programs to NM

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senator chavez

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policies that segregated blacks and whites; promoted by white supremacists like the KKK

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Jim Crow Laws

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policy designed to limit environmental damage that ruined many Navajo livelihoods during the 1930s

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Taylor Grazing Act

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policy where students who spoke Spanish were kept separate and only taught in English

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“direct method”

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politician whose untimely death resulted in the rise of an influential Democratic opponent

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senator cutting

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president who was, fairly or unfairly, blamed for the advent of the Great Depression

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president hoover

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program during the Depression that gave playwrights, journalists, and historians jobs

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Federal Writer’s Project

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proposed law that would have given Pueblo lands to mostly white settlers living near or on them

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Bursum Bill

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sacred site for the Taos Indians that came under control of the U.S. Forest Service

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blue lake

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secluded canyon in the Gila Wilderness where illegal liquor was distilled during Prohibition

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Moonshine Canyon

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Secretary of the Interior under Hoover convicted of taking bribes and sent to jail

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Albert B Fall

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swift and sudden withdrawal of deposits sparked by fear and hysteria

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bank run

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symbol of organized crime during Prohibition

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al capone

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the government agency responsible for loaning currency to banks whose inaction caused the Great Depression

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Federal Reserve

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the organization, mostly composed of suffragettes, that is most responsible for arguing in favor of Prohibition

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Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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troubled New Mexico labor union that lost its struggle against management in McKinley county

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Gallup national miner’s union

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unsuccessful resettlement program for migrants from the Dust Bowl; just south of ABQ

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Bosque Farms

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what was the beginning cause for the great depression

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stock market crash

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when was the stock market crash and why was it not the main cause for the great depression

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it was in 1929 and because rich people invested in stock, only 3% of americans lost money

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what was the main cause of the great depression

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banks collapsing

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why exactly did the banks collapse

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people couldn’t pay back the loans they’d taken out for stocks => banks couldn’t pay back those who had put money in them => FED RESERVE did nothing (even though that was literally their only job but whatever) and people saw all these banks fail => bank runs but how the system works is that banks loan out money they hold for people so only certain amount of people get their money back before its all gone => and no putting money in banks caused the whole system to collapse => and by 1931 1/3 of banks had failed i.e. 1/3 of the money supply in america had dried up

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what was the year FDR was elected

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1932

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program that employed many members of the TSA during the depression

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federal art project

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racist organization that advocated for things like Jim Crow laws in new mexico

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the Ku Klux Klan

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name for the “oil leasing” scandal that rocked Warren G. Harding’s administration during the 1920s

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“Teapot Dome” scandal

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slang term for illegally produced or imported alcohol during Prohibition

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moonshine

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decade during which Prohibition ENDED (people really needed a drink by that time)

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1930s

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unemployment rate for SKILLED workers in NM during the Great Depression

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25%

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