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UNIT 7 BINGO
the purchasing of stocks by paying
only a small percentage of the
price and borrowing the rest
Buying on Margin
Legislation that required men to
register for military services
Selective Service Act
A period of widespread fear of Communism;
resulted in a decline in labor
union membership
Red Scare
forbids the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
beverages .
18th Amendment
A world organization established in 1920
to promote international
cooperation and peace. It was first
proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow
Wilson, although the United States never
joined the organization
League of Nations
The 28th President of the United
States; initially declared neutrality in WWI and later
proposed his Fourteen Points
and the creation of the League of
Nations
Woodrow Wilson
The 31st President of the United States; used a laissez faire
approach to the economy following the Stock Market
crash of 1929; asked private institutions to support Americans; lost the election of
1932 to FDR
Herbert Hoover
The 32nd President of the United States;
his administration was marked by relief programs, measures
to increase employment and
assist industrial and agricultural recovery from the Depression,
and World War II.
FDR
a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to
the German ambassador in
Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican
alliance and promising to help
Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the U.S.
entered WWI.
Zimmerman Telegram
Granted women the right to vote
(women’s suffrage)
19th Amendment
1920s musician who helped
spread Jazz music from New Orleans
to the North
Louis Armstrong
a flowering of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s,
centered in the Harlem
community of New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
the 1919 peace treaty at the end of WWI
which established new
nations, borders, and
war reparations
Treaty of Versailles
Repealed the 18th
Amendment and made the manufacture and sale of
alcohol legal in the U.S.
21st Amendment
Hidden underground
nightclubs where liquor was sold illegally during
Prohibition
Speakeasies
1920s gangster who made
millions of dollars by selling illegally imported/manufac
tured alcohol; operated over
10,000 speakeasies
Al Capone
This individual claimed that the New Deal policies were inadequate and proposed a social program
called Share-Our-Wealth
Huey Long
two Italian immigrant
anarchists who evaded the draft during WWI, and
were later arrested and accused of
robbery and murder, and sentenced to
death
Sacco & Vanzetti
This baseball hero hit the
most home runs in a season during the
1920s
Babe Ruth
1920s Author who used a
simplified style of writing;
author of The Sun Also Rises
and A Farwell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
1920s Author who coined the phrase “Roaring
Twenties”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American labor union organizer; known socialist
who was arrested for speaking out against WWI and
the Selective Service Act
Eugene v. Debs
An agency created in 1933
to insure individuals’
bank accounts, protecting
people against losses due to bank failures.
Author of The Grapes of Wrath , a novel about the
grim lives of Oklahomans
fleeing the Dust Bowl during the
Depression
John Steinbeck
An agency established as part of the 2nd New Deal, that provided the
unemployed with jobs in
construction, garment making,
teaching, the arts, and other fields
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
The programs and policies to
promote economic recovery and social reform
introduced during the 1930s by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
New Deal
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
TVA
A piece of legislation to raise
prices of farm products in the attempt to help farmers through
the Great Depression; was
later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
AAA
FDR’s wife and First Lady who served as an
important advisor on domestic policy,
specifically that which affected
minorities (women, African Americans)
Eleanor Roosevelt
An agency established as part of the New Deal, that put young
unemployed men to work building
roads, developing parks, planting
trees, and helping erosion-control and
flood-control projects
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