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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Repealed the 18th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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