US History Unit 5

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Its purpose was to restricted immigration coming to America

Kellogg Briand Pact

Was an agreement with America and 64 other nations to renounce war

open shop and yellow dog contracts

Aimed at assaulting labor unions by discouraging people to join those unions

Harlem Renaissance

A flowering of African-American creativity

Racketeering

Refers to a structured group engaged in criminal activity.

The FBI

Created by A. Mitchel Palmer in response to the anarchist and communist threat to America

The Scopes Trial

The court case outlawing the teaching of evolution in schools, but ended up doing more for evolution in the long run

Teapot Dom Wyoming

President Harding's administration was marred by corruption, through kickbacks by selling government oil reserves

Welfare Capitalism

Employed by Henry Ford, caused employees to rely more on the corporations they work for instead of unions

Sacco and Vanzetti

Convicted falsely of a double homicide due to their political beliefs

Ku Klux Klan

Protestant nativists that protected white culture from immigrants

1920's industrial boom

Air Mail and passenger service, roads and highways, as well as magazines and radio advertising

Bonus Army

Wanted their WWI Veterans money early, but Hoover kicked them off capital grounds

Voluntary private relief

Herbert Hoover believe was the best way to address the depression

Stock Market Crash

Caused by people were buying on margin (credit), overextended investors, and the overproduction of goods

Deficit spending

When the government spends more money than is being received in revenue

Parity

The practice when the government guarantees (through financial support) the price of agriculture to keep farmer's income going, which often results in burning the crops

Social Security

A mandatory federal retirement plan

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Created by President Hoover, which did not help the "forgotten man," was too little, too late, and was really a government "bailout"

Investigation of banks

Franklin Roosevelt's first action as president

Dust Bowl

The plight of American farmers during the depression was magnified by devastating droughts and storms throughout the 1930s

Huey Long

First president to bring us the closest to becoming a communist country

Okies

Those who fled to California to escape the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma

Wartime production

Ultimately would end the Great Depression

Alphabet Soup

FDR's programs to halt the Depression

Court Packing

FDR sought to add more justices when the Supreme Court struck down some of his New Deal reforms

CWA - Civil Works Administration

Hiring people to build roads, employing singers and artists, and staffing rural schools with teachers

CCC

Employed young people to aid with conservation

FDIC

Federally insured personal bank deposits up to $100,000

Hoovervilles

The name given to shantytowns to blame the president for the depressed economy

Fireside Chats

FDR's way to ease the fears of Americans by explaining his policies over the radio

sewing machine

revolutionized fashion by allowing for mass production and distribution of new clothing styles

Egyptian and Chinese

The two cultures that influenced the fabric and print of outfits in the 1920s

The Battle of the Century

The boxing match between Dempsey and Carpenteer

Marcus Garvey

Jamaican who organized the Black Star Line to carry blacks back to Africa but was convicted of mail fraud

Lou Gehrig

Famous yankees baseball player

Louis Armstrong

"Hot Five" jazz musician

Charlie Chaplin

Famous silent film actor

Al Capone

Notorious Chicago crime boss

Philip Randolph

Organized first African-American union