Unit 9 Vocab Quiz

Question 1

Securities and Exchange Commission

Answer 1

an agency created in 1934, which monitors the stock market and enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds

Question 2

Social Security Act

Answer 2

a law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children

Question 3

Packing the Courts

Answer 3

a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation

Question 3

Works Progress Administration

Answer 3

an agency created in 1935, employing millions
of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads

Question 4

First Hundred Days

Answer 4

when Congress followed Roosevelt’s lead by passing an incredible fifteen separate bills which, together, formed the basis of the New Deal

Question 5

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Answer 5

an agency created in 1933 to insure individuals’ bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures

Question 6

Speakeasy

Answer 6

a place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed during Prohibition

Question 7

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 7

secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall’s secret leasing of oil-rich public land to private companies in return for money and land

Question 8

Buying on Margin

Answer 8

the purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest

Question 9

Rugged Individualism

Answer 9

the idea that each individual should be able to help themselves out, and that the government does not need to involve itself in people’s economic lives nor in national economics in general

Question 10

National Industrial Recovery Act

Answer 10

a law enacted in 1933, to establish codes of fair practices for industries and to promote industrial growth

Question 11

Quota System

Answer 11

a system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year

Question 12

Fireside Chats

Answer 12

a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944

Question 13

Installment Plan

Answer 13

an agreement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase

Question 14

Dust Bowl

Answer 14

the region including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms of the 1930s

Question 15

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Answer 15

a law enacted in 1938, that restricted agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock

Question 16

Speculation

Answer 16

an involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit

Question 17

Socialism

Answer 17

an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy

Question 18

Prohibition

Answer 18

the period from 1920-1933 during which the 18th Amendment forbidding the manufacturing and sale of alcohol was in force in the United States

Question 19

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 19

a flowering of African-American artistic creativity of the 1920’s

Question 20

Bootlegger

Answer 20

a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition

Question 21

Flapper

Answer 21

one of the free thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s

Question 22

Hoovervilles

Answer 22

shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression

Question 23

New Deal

Answer 23

president Franklin Roosevelt’s program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform

Question 24

Bonus Army

Answer 24

a group of World War I veterans and their families who marched on Washington D.C., in 1932 to demand the immediate payment of a bonus they had been promised for military service

Question 25

Ohio Gang

Answer 25

a group of close friends and political supporters whom President Warren G. Harding appointed to his cabinet

Question 26

Red Scare

Answer 26

a period of general fear of communism following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

Question 27

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 27

a secret organization that used terror tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy and a nativist attitude in America

Question 28

Tennessee Valley Authority

Answer 28

a federal corporation established in 1933 to construct dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley region to generate electricity as well as to prevent floods

Question 29

Scopes Trial

Answer 29

a sensational 1925 court case in which biology teacher John Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution