APUSH Unit 12 Easy Test

Margin Buying (Buying on Margin)

Term used to describe individuals borrowing money to buy stocks.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Democratic president who advocated government intervention in the economy to help address the problems of the Great Depression.

John Maynard Keynes

Person who FDR’s interventionist theories drew from

Bolshevik Revolution

Russian communist revolution in 1917.

Run on Banks

Individuals rushing to banks to withdraw their money causing banks to default and crash.

Lewis Turman’s Stanford-Binet IQ Test

Name of Lewis Turman’s intelligence test that mislead many into believing western Europeans were intellectually superior to the rest of the world.

California

Most midwesterners migrated to this state.

Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian anarchists executed based on faulty evidence for the murder of a guard and paymaster.

Tennessee’s Butler Act

Tennessee act that forbade the teaching of evolution in state-funded schools.

Herbert Hoover

Pro-free market President during the beginning of the Great Depression.

KKK or Ku Klux Klan

Racist group that grew popular in the 1920s prosecuting Jews, Catholics, and Blacks.

Give to Charities

Hoover’s general approach to the Great Depression

Hoover Dam

One public works project by Hoover

Scopes Monkey Trial

Trial in 1925 in which John Scopes allegedly taught evolution in school.

Red Scare

Wave of communist paranoia that swept over the US in the 1910s and 20s.

1924 (1824 on word bank)

Year in which the immigration act past that banned immigration from Asia…..etc

Black Tuesday

Name for the day the stock market crashed October 29th, 1929.

Eugenics

Early 20th century movement advocating for the improvement of the human gene pool, reproduction, and even sterilization of people they classified as “defective” individuals.

Agriculture or Construction

The industry most immigrant/migrant workers found jobs in.

Latin American

Immigrant group that grew substantially after the limiting immigration act mentioned in #6.

Dust Bowl

Man-made environmental disaster in the 30s when the failure to use dry-farming methods mixed with drought conditions causing the Midwest to be covered in dirt.

-Agricultural Overproduction

-Manufacturing Overproduction

-Speculation Buying

Three main causes of the Great Depression.

Wagner Act

Act in 1935 that guaranteed the rights of labor to organize and collectively bargain.

Demand Side Economics

Economics that focused on increasing overall market demand by providing employment temporarily by government spending.

Deficit Spending

When the government spends money it doesn’t have by borrowing from private and foreign lenders, as well as the treasury.

The New Deal

New interventionist plan passed in two waves in the early to mid 1930s under a Democratic President and Congress.

Tennessee Valley Authority and Civilian Conservation Corps

Two publicly funded organizations that provided jobs to men and women as part of the new interventionist policy employed by the Democrats.

Federal Deposit Insurance Company or FDIC

Insurance plan that provided compensation for individuals who may lose money when banks fail.

Welfare Food Programs and the Social Security Program

Two federal programs designed to aid struggling individuals or as a pension/retirement plan.

World War II

Event that required a large scale production and brought the US out of the Great Depression.

Al Smith

One conservative opponent of the New Deal which criticized it as a socialist plot.

Upton Sinclair

One far-left opponent of the New Deal who felt it did not go far enough towards socialism.

Committee of Industrial Organization

This labor bargaining committee was formed within the AFL in 1935.

Congress of Industrial Organizations

New name for the labor bargaining committee.

Blacks and Working Class (Not sure on Working class, possibly union members?)

Two groups primarily drawn to the side of the Democrats following democratic calls for the reduction of inequality and protection of the underprivileged.