20s And 30s Review

Question 1

Scandals

Answer 1

Tea pot dome- Harding’s Secretary of the Interior – Albert Fall leased government land to oil companies for drilling. He pocketed the lease money

Question 2

Hoover response to stock market crash

Answer 2

Trickle down economics- tax breaks for the rich

Question 3

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 3

President during the Great Depression

Question 4

New deal and three R’s

Answer 4

Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression:

Relief, recovery, and reform

Question 5

New Deal laws

Answer 5

Social Security 
Wagner Act
Works progress administration 
Fair Labor Standards Act
Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Question 6

Critics of the new deal

Answer 6

Conservative republicans

Question 7

Court-packing scheme

Answer 7

Franklin Roosevelt’s politically motivated and ill-fated scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member over seventy who would not retire.

Question 8

Tariffs and attitudes of the 1920s

Answer 8

Raised tariffs on imported goods

Harding reflected a laissez Faire attitude

Question 9

Expatriate writers

Answer 9

The lost generation. A person residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 10

Hemmingway

Answer 10

Expatriate writer

Question 11

Langston Hughes

Answer 11

Harlem Renaissance poet

Question 12

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 12

Expatriate writer

Question 13

Fundamentalist and scopes monkey trial

Answer 13

Fundamentalist strictly believed the words from the bible and rejected all theories of Darwin evolution. Scopes was tried for teaching evolution in schools.

Question 14

KKK

Answer 14

Ku Klux Klan; oppose social change and black emancipation through violence and terrorism

Question 15

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 15

Cultural rebirth for African American community. Centered in Harlem. The “new negro”.

Question 16

Cause and effects of stock market crash

Answer 16

Causes: Buying on the margin. Installment plan. No regulations. No insurance on money deposited in banks.
Effects: bank failures. Decline in consumerism. People were unable to pay back their loans.

Question 17

Buying on the margin

Answer 17

Buying stock but only paying a percentage of the total and paying the rest with borrowed money from the bank.

Question 18

Installment plans

Answer 18

Paying a fixed price over a period of time.

Question 19

Advertising in the 20s

Answer 19

Advertising was big because companies had not mastered the art of mass production, all they needed was a way to get people to buy their goods.

Question 20

New deal policies that helped bankers businessmen and consumers.

Answer 20

Emergency Banking Act: declared bank holidays in an attempt to stem the bank runs
The FIDC: insurance on money deposited into banks

Question 21

Flapper

Answer 21

A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

Question 22

19th ammendment

Answer 22

Women suffrage

Question 23

Role of women in the prohibition

Answer 23

Against the consumption of alcohol. Supported the 18th amendment.

Question 24

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 24

Wife of FDR. most active First Lady

Question 25

Working conditions

Answer 25

Laborers were reduced to poor living conditions

Question 26

Power or weakness of labor unions

Answer 26

Many geeked the power of unions during the red scare. They felt that they were bringing in too much socialistic ideals.During the FDR presidency he promoted the ideas of collective bargaining.

Question 27

Immigration in this time period

Answer 27

Immigration was restricted. America was becoming a melting pot.

Question 28

Immigration restrictions

Answer 28

Immigration Act of 1924 set a quota for how many immigrants were allowed in the country

Question 29

Red scare

Answer 29

The hunt for communist in America

Question 30

Palmer Raids

Answer 30

Palmer was known for his ruthlessness in finding and capturing communists

Question 31

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 31

Anarchist who were charged with murder because the government feared they were communists, even though there was not sufficient evidence.

Question 32

Wagner Act

Answer 32

Protected the right of employees to organize into unions and to bargain collectively.

Question 33

CIO

Answer 33

Congress of industrial organization- laborers Union together.

Question 34

1920s problems of overproduction

Answer 34

Farmers had to much product, but not enough demand because the war had come to an end.

Question 35

Lack of support from federal government in the 20s

Answer 35

The government chose a laissez Faire stand point.

Question 36

Great Depression effects on farmers

Answer 36

Dust Bowl- all the top soil was plowed and the farmer were unable to produce food New deal laws: AAA- gave subsidies to farmers to farms on certain portions of land Soil conservation act: farmers were paid to cut production of soil depleting crops