Standard 6 - Terms & Definitions

Question 1

Made the sale of alcohol illegal in the US - Began Prohibition

Answer 1

18th Amendment

Question 2

Gave women the right to vote

Answer 2

19th Amendment

Question 3

Made the sale of alcohol legal in the us - Repealed Prohibition

Answer 3

21st Amendment

Question 4

New Deal program that paid some farmers NOT to farm in order to drive down supply

Answer 4

AAA

Question 5

Henry Ford’s creation that greatly increased the speed of mass production

Answer 5

Assembly Line

Question 6

FDR’s plan to keep people from withdrawing all their funds from banks

Answer 6

Bank Holiday

Question 7

When large groups of people withdrew ALL of their savings from banks

Answer 7

Bank Runs

Question 8

Film that glorified the KKK and encouraged many in the 1920’s to join it

Answer 8

Birth of a Nation

Question 9

Group of black advisers to FDR on issues relating to black Americans

Answer 9

Black Cabinet

Question 10

October 29, 1929 - The day the stock market crashed

Answer 10

Black Tuesday

Question 11

Group of WWI veterans who marched to Washington DC to ask for their military bonuses at the beginning of the Great Depression

Answer 11

Bonus Army

Question 12

Too much borrowing on credit, gap between rich and poor, deregulation of businesses

Answer 12

Causes of the Depression

Question 13

Group who felt that the New Deal was bad because it plunged the US into huge debt

Answer 13

Conservatives

Question 14

FDR’s plan to add 6 judges to the Supreme Court who would support his policies

Answer 14

Court Packing

Question 15

Term for the environmental disaster in the Great Plains during the 1930’s when the topsoil blew away

Answer 15

Dust Bowl

Question 16

Government organization that insures bank accounts so that people will get money even if the bank closes

Answer 16

FDIC

Question 17

Agency in control of interest rates

Answer 17

Federal Reserve

Question 18

FDR’s speeches to the American public during the Great Depression to build confidence and tell them what they should do

Answer 18

Fireside Chats

Question 19

Young women in the 1920’s who ignored social norms regarding alcohol, dancing, and sex

Answer 19

Flappers

Question 20

Religious movement beginning in the 1920’s that taught a literal interpretation of the Bible & encouraged a conservative lifestyle

Answer 20

Fundamentalism

Question 21

Rebirth of black culture in the US - Many AA’s began writing poetry, music, etc. to share the black experience in America

Answer 21

Harlem Renaissance

Question 22

Republican president at the beginning of the Great Depression who only asked businesses to continue paying workers their full wages

Answer 22

Hoover

Question 23

Name given to makeshift living quarters set up outside of major cities during the Depression

Answer 23

Hoovervilles

Question 24

These were set up to prevent too many foreigners from coming to the US in the 20’s

Answer 24

Immigration Quotas

Question 25

This action by the Federal Reserve encourages people to borrow money and speeds up the economy

Answer 25

Lowering Interest Rates

Question 26

This action by the Federal Reserve discourages people from borrowing money and slows down the economy

Answer 26

Raising Interest Rates

Question 27

In the 1920’s, this organization stood for “100% Americanism” and fought against foreigners, Catholics, and Communists in addition to black Americans.

Answer 27

KKK - 20’s

Question 28

This group of people criticized the New Deal for not doing enough to help the elderly, children, and disabled people

Answer 28

Liberals

Question 29

Borrowing money from stock you own but have not yet sold - this practice led to the Stock Market Crash

Answer 29

Margin

Question 30

Eleanor Roosevelt helped this black singer give a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after another group cancelled a concert when they realized she was black

Answer 30

Marian Anderson

Question 31

FDR’s plan to relieve suffering, restore the economy, and reform business practices during the Great Depression

Answer 31

New Deal

Question 32

Farmers who moved to the west from the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl

Answer 32

Okies

Question 33

Period in the 1920’s when the Attorney General rounded up 4000 people he suspected of being Communists

Answer 33

Palmer Raids

Question 34

Period of time in the 1920’s & 30’s when the sale of alcohol was illegal in the US

Answer 34

Prohibition

Question 35

Period of time when Americans were afraid the country was being overrun with Communists

Answer 35

Red Scare

Question 36

During the 1920’s, this group passed laws to deregulate businesses and give them as much freedom as possible

Answer 36

Republicans

Question 37

Trial over the teaching of evolution in public schools in Tennessee

Answer 37

Scopes Trial

Question 38

FDR’s program to help the retired, disabled, and those who lost parents financially

Answer 38

Social Security

Question 39

The right to vote

Answer 39

Suffrage

Question 40

In the 1930’s, the US passed one of these to try to encourage Americans to buy goods from the US - Other countries passed these too & trade virtually stopped

Answer 40

Tariffs

Question 41

New Deal Program that hired workers to build dams and electric lines in the Southeast

Answer 41

TVA

Question 42

FDR worked to legalize this - It is the term used when a group of laborers appoints one person to negotiate with a representative from management

Answer 42

Collective Bargaining

Question 43

Fear of outsiders or foreigners

Answer 43

Xenophobia