Untitled Flashcards Set

Scottsboro Boys

Sensational court case that revealed continuing racism in the US.

Frank Capra

Film director in the 1930s whose work promoted traditional American values.

Hispanics

This group was often displaced in California as poor whites arrived.

One third

According to the text, the fraction of farmers who lost their land as a result of the depression.

Dale Carnegie

Author of 'How to Win Friends and Influence People', showing belief in hard work leading to success.

Stock Market Crash

Often mistakenly believed to be a cause, this October 1929 event was NOT a cause.

Auto

One of two industries that the 1920s prosperity was based around.

Tariffs

These taxes made international trade challenging.

Credit or loans

Much of European prosperity relied on easy access to this.

Lack of consumer demand

Low worker wages may have contributed to this cause.

Bonus Marchers/Bonus Army

They came to Washington DC looking for additional pay for World War I service; the Army sent them home.

Indian Reorganization Act

New Deal law that ended the US policy of forcing Indians to assimilate and allowed stronger tribal ties.

Owen Roberts

Court Justice whose switch away from opposition to the New Deal ended all talk of court packing.

Communist Party

Political group that supported many "popular front" organizations.

Emergency Banking Act

One law designed to regulate banking and the conduct of the Stock Market.

Teddy Roosevelt

First of the Progressive Presidents.

Muckrakers

Progressive journalists who reported on scandals.

Lodge

US senator who led the opposition to the Treaty of Versailles without changes.

Peace without victory

Wilson’s last attempt in the winter of 1916-1917 to negotiate a settlement to World War I.

UNIA

Marcus Garvey’s Black Pride organization.

Open door

US policy demanding access to China trade.

Interstate Commerce Act

First attempt by Congress to regulate the railroads.

Frederick Remington

Leading artist who romanticized the image of the West.

Herbert Spencer

He developed the ideas of Social Darwinism.

Atlanta Compromise

Booker T. Washington’s policy of accommodating the racist order in America.

AFL

Older, more conservative, and less confrontational labor union of the 1930s.

Social Security

Law which created unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and old age pensions.

Wagner Act

New Deal law giving unions the right to organize and bargain with companies.

John L. Lewis

He led the creation of Industrial unions in the 1930s like the UAW and UMW.

General Motors

The great sit down strike in Flint, MI against this company forced them to bargain with the UAW.

NRA/NIRA

Heart of the 1st New Deal, killed by complexity and the US Supreme Court.

TV A

Program to provide electric power to the upper South.

AAA

Program to pay farmers NOT to produce food.

RFC

Hoover’s failed attempt to use government power to end the depression.

FERA

Roosevelt and Hopkins' reluctant program to give funds to states for welfare.

John Steinbeck

His novel, The Grapes of Wrath, showed the harshness of farm life in the depression.

Huey Long

Wealth redistribution was the core of this LA senator’s message.

American Liberty League

Conservative group who criticized the expanding government role of the New Deal.

STFU

Socialist organization created to challenge the sharecropping system of the South.

John Dos Passos

His trilogy of books, titled USA, challenged American Materialism.

Emerson

Key poet of the Transcendentalist movement.

Impressment

British policy of forcefully recovering escaped sailors, helped cause the War of 1812.

Peggy Eaton Affair

Social scandal that divided Jackson and Calhoun in the late 1820s.

Lowell

He created the first cotton making factory in Massachusetts, in a town named for him.

Cult of domesticity

Term for the division of roles between men and women in antebellum America.

Great Awakening

Religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s.

The National Bank

This financial institution of the 1790s divided Jefferson and Hamilton.

Boston Tea Party

This event in 1773 led to the Coercive Acts the following spring.

Dominion of New England

Failed attempt by King James II in 1688 to put the colonies under strict royal control.

Huguenots

French Protestant Immigrants who came to the colonies after being kicked out of France.