Who was the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic?
Who is Charles Lindberg?
All of FDR's programs to deal with the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal!
Overproduction and excessive use of buying on margin led to this event on Oct. 29, 1929
What is the day the stock market crashed or "Black Tuesday"
Paid farmers to burn their crops, provided crop subsides. MAIN GOAL: raise price of farm products and decrease overproduction
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
A rebellious woman who changed her style, dress, and behavior
What is a flapper?
The President at the start of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover.
This group of people criticized the New Deal the most/
Who are the conservatives.
A period of drought, dust storms, and high winds on the Great Plains
What is the Dust Bowl.
Public work relief program for single young men 18-24 to work to conserve natural resources and parks and provide employment
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
a period in the 1920's when African Americans created note-worthy works of art and literature
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The first female cabinet member under the FDR administration
Who is Frances Perkins?
the four day period that allowed the government to inspect banks to see if they were healthy enough to reopen.
What is the banking holiday.
Shantytowns in which large populations of people gathered together to live in homemade shacks were named after which president?
What is President Herbert Hoover?
Provided manufacturing services & jobs by renovating old DAMS, creating new DAMS, and providing flood relief and HYDROELECTRIC power
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
making installment payments to purchase something that is expensive and typically unaffordable.
What is buying on margin or credit?
Who was the celebrated author who wrote about the lives of poor, uneducated Southern blacks, and is best known for their book Their Eyes Were Watching God?
Who is Zora Neal Hurston?
These marked the first time that a president effectively used radio to have direct contact access to a national audience.
What are Fireside Chats?
WWI army veterans that went to Washington to get a promised bonus.
What is the Bonus Army.
Established fair practices for individual industries and promoted INDUSTRIAL GROWTH.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)?
Fear of minorities coming in and out of the country that resulted in a demand for limits of immigration
What is the First Red Scare?
Senator from LA, who complained that the New Deal did not adequately help the common people
What is Huey Long?
The most profound and long-lasting effect of the New Deal on American politics
What is increased power for the President and the federal government?
This reduced the flow of goods into the U.S. and prevented other countries from earning American currency to buy American exports.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
Allows workers to join unions, protected labor unions for workers. GUARANTEED government support for organized labor
What is the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)?
The statement made by president Coolidge expressing his support for Laissez-faire capitalism
What is "The business of America is Business"