Social Studies Chapter 8

19th Amendment

Womens right to vote.

21st Amendment

Brought an end to the Prohibition era.

Teapot Dome Scandal

Oil leases granted by government official without competitive bidding.

Ku Klux Klan

Anti catholic, jew, and black, organization.

Dust Bowl

Improper farming techniques led to valueable topsoil being blown away. Followed by years of drought and wind storms.

American Civil Liberties Union

Organization that defends and protects the individual rights of people.

Calvin Coolidge

Nations’s quietest president who brought trust back to the president’s office.

Herbert Hoover

President when stock market crashed.

Henry Ford

Inventor of assembly line which made cars more affordable.

Chicago Race Riot

Week long riot where dozens died and hundreds were injured. One of the worst racial injustices of the time period.

Capitalism

Economic system where businesses, goods, and services are controlled by private owners or corporations rather than the government.

Al Capone

Notorius crime boss, who made 60 milllion in a year from bootlegging liquor.

U.S. Mail

FIrst commercial use of an airplpane was carrying U.S. mail.

Red Scare

Widespread fear in 1919 1920 that the US government would be overthrown by communists.

Amelia Earhart

Aviation pioneer who set many flying records.

Kellogg Briand Pact

An attempt to outlaw war and prevent the U.S. from joining another war.

Smoot Hawley Tariff Act

* Signaled our contries return to isolationism and raised tariffs on imported goods.

Flappers

Young women who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, and listened to jazz. Showing their disapproval of normal women behavior.

Emergency Relief Banking Act

Closed banks and decided on their finacial health.

Glass Steagall Act

Provided deposit issuance to depositors 

Four Horsemen

Names given to conservative members of U.S. supreme court.

Hoovervilles

Derogatory name given to towns in bad condition.

Works Progress Administration

Provided jobs for people on relief during the Depression.

Fireside Chats

Speeches Roosevelt gave to public displaying optimism over domestic and global difficulties.

Frances Perkins

FDR’s Secretary of Labor.

The major causes of the Great Depressions

Stock market crashed, banks failed, people spent less, businesses failed, unemployment rose.

The major fact that led to the massive migration of African Americans

There were more jobs in urban cities than in rural areas in the south. KKK was another reason.

Supreme Court’s views on FDR’s New Deal

They neglected many of them.

FDR’s promise the three R’s

Relief, recovery, and reform.

Why did the population support Roosevelt

He installed hope in public and lessened fear.