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The Teapot Dome
When oil field on public land were loaned to private oil companies for a kickback, this scandal erupted. Led by Albert Fall
19th Amendment
Women’s Right to Vote
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Our country had lots of tension with this country. U.S had strict immigrant restrictions with them.
Japan
The Red Scare
A time period when Americans greatly
Palmer Raids-
When Mitchel Palmer and Edgar Hoover start the FBI to round up the reds - communists
Immigration
Moving from one place to another
Calvin Coolidge
Became president when Harding dies. Vice President for Warren Harding.
Quota
A maximum number or quantity that is permitted or needed.
Warren Harding
A very corrupt president whose administration was racked with scandalism.
Quota Act
Limited the # of immigrants from each country to 3%
Communism
A form of government that promoted everything owned by the people.
KKK
Originally started by Nathan Bedford Forrest after the civil war. White supremacist group that hated blacks, Jews, Catholics, and Homosexuals.
Wrote the great gatsby, this side of paradise, the beautiful and damned, and tender is the night, was a jazz age authors.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
First women to fly across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
President who unsuccessfully tried to fix the Great Depression through volunteer effort.
Herbert Hoover
Someone who has made alcohol illegally and smuggles it for a profit.
Bootlegger.
The Great Bambino or Sultan of Swat. Famous baseball player from 1914-1935.
Babe Ruth
Made drinking and selling alcohol was illegal
Prohibition - 18th Amendment
Great Jazz Musicians-
Louis Armstrong, Count Bessie, Due Ellington.
A place where alcohol was sold and consumed illegally.
Speakeasies
A worker who replaces a striking worker.
A scab
First person to fly transatlantic alone.
Charles Lindbergh
To stop working as a collective form of protest against and employer.
Strike
Popular music that derived from black people in New Orleans in the late 1800’s.
Jazz
Difference of Jazz and Blues
Blues is scripted and tells a story and jazz is improv
A list of people or groups who are under suspicion or excluded from something.
Blacklisted
A young scandalous women in the 20’s
Flapper
Charles Lindbergh’s Plane
The spirit of st.Louis
Wrote books and is considered one of America’s greatest authors, suffered from depression
Ernest hemingway
A contract that does not allow an employee to be a member of a labor union.
Yellow dog contract
A government program that provides economic security.
Social Security
A time period marked by drought, wind, caused destruction of the American Prairie grasses also called black blizzards
Dust Bowl
A series of 30 evening radio speeches given by president FDR.
Fireside Chats
Most devastating stock market crash in history stopped by FDR
The great depression.
An elected office-holder left seemingly powerless after a successor has been elected but hasn’t taken office yet.
Lame Duck
Basic rights that all citizens of a society are supposed to have.
Civil Rights
A place that serves free food to people
Soup Kitchens
Repeals the 18th amendment.
The 21st amendment
The domestic policy of FDR
The New Deal
The most unhealthy economic time period in American History
Great Depression
A line of people waiting for handouts of free food
Breadlines
Limits the presidency to two terms
22nd Amendment
Scopes Trial
John Scopes was accused of teaching Evolution
Prosecutor - William Jennings Bryan
Defense Lawyer - Clarence Darrow
Fundamentalism
Taking the bible word for word and not teaching evolution.
1920 election
Warren G. Harding vs. James Cox
Harding wins
Harding dies and Coolidge becomes president
Election of 1924
Calvin Coolidge wins again.
1928 Election
Herbert Hoover vs Al Smith
Hoover wins
1932 Election
FDR vs. Herbert Hoover
FDR wins starting hits first term
1936 Election
FDR wins (2nd term)
Election of 1940
FDR wins (3rd Term)
Election of 1944
FDR wins (4th and last term)
Black Cabinet
Mary Bethune - friend of Elanaur Roosevelt and National Youth Administation, Lyndon B. Johnson - secretary of department of housing and urban development
Langston Hughes
Wrote NAACP anthem
Dorothea Lange
Great Depression Photographer
Reasons of Stock Market Crash
- Unbalanced Economy
- Buying on Margin
- Banks Failed
- Tariffs
- Poverty
FDR 3 r’s and examples
- Relief (immediate) - Bank Holiday & Emergency Banking Act
- Recovery (temporary) - agricultural adjustment act & National Industrial Recovery Act
- Reform (permanent) - securities and exchange commission & Social Securities Administration
Dates of stock market crash
Black Thursday - October 24th, 1929
Terrible Tuesday - October 29th 1929
FDR stacked cabinet -
FDR packs the Supreme Court that will be in favor of his bill to be passed which is the new deal program