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| republican president 1920. Not capable nor bright. contrasted favorably with wilson |
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| vice president took over hardings place 1923 |
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| only president from Iowa, also professional mining engineer and author |
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| Secretary of Treasury with ongoing efforts to reverse the progressive tax policies of the wilson years |
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| The bribery scandal of the white house administration and the president |
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| league which advocated for women's rights among the right for women to serve on juries and equal pay laws in 1920s |
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| of the 1920s. mass movement of African Americans |
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| founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League |
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| well known writer, best known for his poetry |
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| flowering of african american culture and intellectual life and litterature |
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| term applied to the 1920's for the popular music of the day. many changes in mass culture |
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| frivolous young women with short hair and skimpy skirts who danced, smoked, drank in oblivious self-absorption |
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| National Origins Act of 1924 |
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| law sharply restricting immigration on the basis of immigrants' national origins and discriminating against southern and eastern europeans and asians |
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| organization exploited racial, ethnic and relegious predjudices |
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| 1920s defining the liquor forbidden under the 18th amendment and giving enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Beureau |
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| Bio teacher arrested. famous trial, antievolution law of Tennessee |
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| Washington Naval Conference |
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| disarmament conference. treaty virtually froze current balance of naval power |
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| international treaty that denounced agression and outlawed war- lacked provisision for enforcement |
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| catholic New York governor |
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| the name given economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s |
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| shantytowns, in which unemployed and homeless people lived |
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| nation's worst economic crisis |
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| trade barrier that was constructed by us in 1930 |
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| name given to stock market collapse in 1929 |
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| name usually applied to when reflecting on the economic bla bla in US |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) |
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| lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies, and railroads so that their recovery could trickle down to ordinary Americans |
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| unemployed veterans of WW1 gathering in Washington |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| president who enacted the New Deal program as a Democrat, promising change in the depression |
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| the first 3 months of FDR's presidency |
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| stabilized the private banking system |
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| speeches broadcast nationally over the radio |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| government agency that guarantees bank deposits, thereby protecting depositors and banks |
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| Securuties and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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| federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |
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| an organization created to provide relief for the unemployed, furnished funds to state and local agencies |
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| head of the FERA, one of the New Deal's most importaint members. |
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| Public Works Administration (PWA) |
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| provided work relief on useful projects to stimulate the economy through public expenditures |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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| employed 2.5 million young men to work on reforestation and flood-control projects, build roads etc. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) |
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| created to combat the depression in agriculture caused by crop surpluses and low prices |
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| National Recovery Administration |
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| sought to halt the slide in prices, wages, and employment by suspending antitrust laws and authorizing industrial and trade associations to draft codes.. |
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| Wagner National Labor Relations Act |
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| guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and prohibited employers from adopting unfair labor practices |
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| provided unemployment compensation, old-age pensions and aid for dependent mothers |
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| great plains Texas to Dekotas. sand storms |
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| families who abandoned farms in droves due to dust storms |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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| set up work relief programs to assist the unemployed and boot the economy. GAVE JOBS TO 9 MILLION PEOPLE |
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| Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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| an alliance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930s organizational drive among the mass-production industries |
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| agressive tactic in which workers sat inside plant, blocking production and use |
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| chicago, police killed 10 strikers |
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| leader of women rights. first lady of the house |
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| Indian Reorganization Act |
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| guarenteed religious freedom, reestablished tribal-government |
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| helped make disissions about racial issues under roosevelt |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| federal regional planning agency established to promote conversation, produce electric power and encourage |
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| commissioner of Indian Affairs 1933. reformer and social worker |
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| agriculture, north dakota |
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| everyone over 60 gets a government handout |
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| governor and senator from louisiana. quality services if vote for me |
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| British economist made roosevelt increase spending |
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| government subsricing to philosophy of dictatorship |
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| entrepreneur who symbolized modern America to the world with automobile factory |
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| moving workbench to combine into a finished product |
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| label for industry that is controlled by a few large companies |
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| arrangement in which a companyis not limited to union |
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| employment agreement in which an employee is not allowed to join a union |
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| paternalistic system of labor relations emphasizing management respoinsibility for employee will being |
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