Unit 8: Important Concepts

Question 1

Nativists

Answer 1

The political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation. Essentially fuck you non white people

Question 2

Trade Associations

Answer 2

Organised and funded by business, it participates in public relations activities such as advertising, education, political donations, lobbying and publishing. Main focus was company to company relations.

Question 3

The Three “R”s

Answer 3

FDR’s three objectives for which he called the Hundred Days relief, recovery, and reform

Question 4

New Deal

Answer 4

a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States by FDR between 1933 and 1938 to improve lack of jobs and poverty because of the Great Depression

Question 5

Totalitarianism

Answer 5

a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society. Some thought FDR’s New Deal Agencies were turning America into a totalitarianism society.

Question 6

Fundamentalism

Answer 6

The movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early part of the 20th century in reaction to modernism. Basically it was “shit, technology, but God”

Question 7

Buying on Margin

Answer 7

Allowed people to borrow most of the cost of the stock, making down payments as low as 10 percent. Help start Great Depression

Question 8

Farm Bloc

Answer 8

A group of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress from the farming states of the Middle West that pressures the federal government to adopt policies favorable to farmers. So farmers in congress

Question 9

Dust Bowl

Answer 9

A period of severe dust storms in America because of over farming. Fucking sucked for farmers

Question 10

Hundred Days

Answer 10

The first hundred days of FDR’s first term where he made a bunch of new programs to address the Great Depression

Question 11

Isolationism

Answer 11

It was America saying fuck you Europe, don’t want no part of your stupid war

Question 12

Florida Land Boom

Answer 12

Extreme example of real estate speculation during the 1920s; completely worthless properties were sold at high prices to eager and stupid consumers. End when Hurricane fucked everything over

Question 13

Stock Market

Answer 13

he market in which shares of publicly held companies are issued. Too many Americans investing in stock market in help sparked Depression

Question 14

Boondoggling

Answer 14

A worthless piece of shit project

Question 15

Court Packing Scheme

Answer 15

FDR’s scheme to try and remove all the old shits and fatass’s from Congress and replace them with more reasonable people

Question 16

Installment Buying

Answer 16

The buyer gains the use of the commodity immediately and then pays for it in periodic payments called installments. Americans also fucked over economy by using installment buy to buy shit that they couldn’t afford

Question 17

Second Front

Answer 17

It was the war front where American and allied troops attached the Germans in France and advance towards Berlin.