Grade 8 History Chapter 13 Test

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Recession

An economic slump that is milder than a depression

Stock

Share of ownership in a corporation

Installment Buying

Buying on credit, with regular payments to cover the full price plus interest

Interest

A fee charged for a loan, usually a percentage of the loan, to be paid monthly along with part of the original loan, until the loan is repaid

Prohibition

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the movement to ban alcohol production and sales in the United States, or, between 1920 and 1933, the constitutional ban on alcohol production and sales

Repeal

To cancel, remove from law

League of Women Voters

An organization established in 1920 to educate voters and promote rights for women

Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A)

A 1923 proposed constitutional amendment attended to prohibit all discrimination based on sex; the amendment was never ratified

The Jazz Singer

The first talking movie

Company Unions

Labor organizations that are limited to a single company that is controlled by management

Nativism

The belief that native-born citizens’ interests should be protected, usually involving hostility toward foreigners and immigration

Great Migration

The movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North during the early to mid-1900s

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929: the day the stock market crashed most deeply, signaling the start of the Great Depression

Great Depression

The most severe economic decline in United States history, beginning in 1929

Bankrupt

Unable to pay debts

Soup Kitchen

A place where food is provided to the needy at little or no charge

Hooverville

A group of shacks in which the homeless lived during the Great Depression

Bonus Army

A group of veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a World War I bonus

Polio

A highly infectious disease that leads to paralysis

Bank Holiday

One or more weekdays when banks are closed; during the Great Depression, a four-day period when the federal government ordered banks closed

Fireside Chat

A radio speech given by Franklin D. Roosevelt while in office

New Deal

The program of Franklin D. Roosevelt to end the Great Depression

Social Security Act

A 1935 law that set up a system of pensions for older people and the nation’s first system of unemployment insurance

National Debt

The total sum of money that a government owes to others

Dust Bowl

The region in the central and southern Great Plains that was hit by severe drought soil erosion, and dust storms in the 1930s

Migrant Worker

A person who moves from one region to another in search of work

Black Cabinet

A group of black leaders who unofficially advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning the situation of African Americans and civil rights

Civil Rights

The rights due to all citizens

Dracula, Frankenstein, and Invisible Man

Three Universal monster movies

Max Shreck

Count Gorlock in Nosferatu