US History Unit 5 Flashcards
What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?
To round up suspected subversives
What happen to the U.S. economy after World War I?
High Inflation and Increasing Unemployment.
What was the purpose of the Emigration Act of 1921?
Cap the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal and what president is it associated with
it?
The Teapot Dome Scandal is associated with President Warren G. Harding’s Secretary of the Interior Fall who leased national oil reserves to companies that had paid him $360,000 in bribes.
What is isolationism?
No participation in relations with other countries.
What was the purpose of the Dawes Plan?
To settle war debts with other countries
The Washington Naval Conference failed to outlaw?
The construction of smaller ships and submarines
What cause the economic boom in the 1920s?
Innovations led to new industries.
What industry still did not prosper in the 1920s?
Farming
What invention cause rapid growth in the suburbs oppose to cities?
Automobiles
What grassroots organization was formed in the 1920s to inform citizens of public issues?
League of Woman Voters
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington played an influential role in what kind of music?
Jazz
Explain the Harlem Renaissances?
It was an outpouring of creativity among African American poets, writers, and artists.
Name three famous celebrity athletes in the 1920s?
Gertrude Ederle, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe.
What was the situation for American farmers in the 1920s?
Failing crop prices led to bankruptcy.
Why did some people support prohibition and why did some people oppose it?
Support: because they believed it led to crime, violence, and break up of families. Oppose: bootlegging led to organize crime
Explain the Scopes trial and what role did William Jennings Bryan play?
Scopes trial central focus was can the state ban the teaching of evolution in public schools. William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor for the state of Tennessee.
What happen October 29, 1929 and what is that day referred to?
Stock prices fell (Stock Market Crash) also known as Black Tuesday.
Why did people stop buying goods in the late 1920s?
People could not afford the products being produce.
Explain the bank crisis? (What did people start doing?)
Depositors withdrew their cash from banks
What is the Hawley –Smoot Tariff Act and how did it make the Great Depression worse?
Hawley-Smoot Act raised the taxes of imported goods due to this other countries boycott U.S. products.
What action did most conservatives think the federal government should take towards handling the Great Depression?
Let the economy stabilize itself without interfering.
What was the most vital problem during the Great Depression?
High unemployment
Who is Walter Waters and what was he trying to do?
Walter Waters led a protest to convince Congress to accelerate the payment bonuses to WWI veterans.
What was the name of FDR’s plan to help fix the problems during the Great Depression and what did he accomplish in the first hundred days?
The New Deal, in his first hundred days congress passed a record number of bills to promote economic recovery.
Define what is recession
Recession is a slowdown in economic activity (i.e. unemployment, people stop buying goods)
Define what is recovery.
Recovery is when the economy returns back to a high level of economic activity. (i.e. jobs, people purchasing goods)
What did the Reconstruction Finance Corporation set out to do?
Save failing banks and business by issuing government loans.
What were the two causes for poor crop production in the dust bowl region?
Drought and overused the land.
Why did “Okies” head to California?
Promise of steady farm work.
Do to not being employed some men disrupted their family unit by?
Men deserting their families became more common.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration did what to help who?
To help farmers by reducing production to raise crop prices
The Civilian Conservation Corp and Works Progress Administration provide relief how?
By providing create jobs for the needy.
What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?
To lessen poverty in retirement.
What were the aspects of the Indian New Deal?
It ended the policy that forced American Indians at assimilate.
What was the criticism of the New Deal?
It expanded the role federal government too much
Ultimately did the New Deal end the Great Depression?
Why or Why Not? No, the economy continue to struggle into the 1940s .
