US HISTORY: 1920 Flashcards
The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) was designed to
Strengthen consumer confidence in the banking systems
President Hoover believed relief programs would
Destroy individual initiative
The fourteen points proposed by president Wilson can be described as a statement of principles that
Would govern the postwar world and create world peace
The US became a consumer culture in the 1920s because of blank and blank encouraged blank.
Advertising
Installment payments
Buying
People believed in never ending blank and this promoted heavy increases in blank
Prosperity
Stock speculation
In the 1920s people believed in
Borrowing and spending
The 1925 scopes trial involved a conflict between blank. His conviction supported
Science and religion
Traditional fundamentalist values
Reasons for the Great Depression:
High blank
Farmers blank and faced blank that caused prices to fall banking policies were blank and led to the
Protective tariffs
Overproduced
Competition
Unsound
Over expansion of credit
Franklin Delano Roosevelt supported direct blank. His blank programs demonstrated a belief that the blank government must condemn itself with the blank
Relief to the unemployed
New deal
Federal
People’s economic well being
FDRs moody pressing problem when he became president was
Unemployment
The new deal program designed to correct abuses in the blank was called the
Stock market
Securities and exchange commission
FDRs new deal plans sought to solve the problems caused by the blank
Great Depression
The federal government attempted to improve blank economy by blank of agricultural goods.
Farm
Reducing the production
The new deal program about agricultural goods was called the
Agricultural adjustment act
The federal government even supported programs to blank
Support the arts
A lasting effect of the new deal is that many government programs
Continue today
The FDIC was created to
Strengthen consumer confidence in banks
FDRs critics felt that his attempts to blank was a clear conflict of blank. It started before the court was in blank to several blank
Pack the Supreme Court
Checks and Balances
Opposition
New deal laws
The red scare of national origins act were created because of
Distrust of foreigners
The major goals of both blank and blank back to Africa movement was blank
Harlem renaissance and Marcus Garveys
increase racial pride among african Americans
The Republican Party in the 1929s followed a foreign policy based on blank
Noninvolvement
When the Great Depression began the most common blank was that the
Economic belief
Economy would recover on its own
Schneck vs the us decision and the red scare demonstrate that blank are sometimes compromised by the public’s blank of
Civil rights
Fear
Radical political groups
The city that had the most lawlessness during the 1920s was
Chicago
The Kellogg briand pact hoped to
Outlaw war as a solution to international rivalry
The individual most closely associated with the growth of blank sales was
Automobile
Henry ford
New deal
FDRs program of relief recovery and reform
Hundred days
In FDRs first weeks in office he developed many laws to help the country
Wagner act
Laws passed to legalize collective bargaining
Buying on margin
Investors purchase stock for only a fraction of the cost
Hoovervilles
Shelters of homeless people made from scraps of material
Bonus army
20,000 jobless WWI vets campout at Washington DC demanding pensions
Harlem renaissance
Rebirth of music writing and art in African American cuktures
Red scare
Fear of communism in the USA
Scopes trial
Teacher brought on trial for teaching the theory of evolution
Assembly line
Manufacturing an item in which each worker has a specific task
