U.S. History - Unit 9 Quiz Review

The 19th Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

Eleanor Roosevelt

She held press conferences to
address social issues and the critics of
FDR.

The 18th Amendment

Prohibited “the manufacture, sale, or
transportation of intoxicating liquors.”

Hoovervilles

Homeless camps during Great
Depression named after President
Herbert Hoover, negative attack on
Hoover.

Underconsumption

The working class lost the ability to
purchase goods because their wages
stayed the same as prices rose.

Langston Hughes

Famous poet of the movement, poems
had the tempo of jazz or blues, wrote
about the working class African
Americans.

FDR

President during Great Depression
and World War II

Speculation

Buying risky stock

Nativism

People born in America were superior
to immigrants

The Harlem Renaissance

The first significant artistic movement
coming out of Black culture.

The New Deal

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA),
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
(AAA), and Civil Conservation Corps
(CCC), Social Security Act

Advertising

Nationwide campaigns on the radio, in
magazines, and at the movies.

Overproduction

The decrease in consumer spending
resulted in business overproducing
goods (surplus).

The Red Scare

Fear of the spread of communism

The Dust Bowl

A series of severe dust storms that
greatly damaged the Great Plains of
the United States.

19

The long-term effect of the _____th
Amendment was that women voted for
income equality or fought against
income equality.

18th

The _____ Amendment led to
organized crime and establishments
were created to move and sell alcohol
illegally.

Advertising

_____ made people decide to buy
automobiles.

Great Migration

The _____ _____ led to the
development of the Harlem
Renaissance.

Eleanor Roosevelt

_____ _____ held press conferences
to address social issues and critics of
FDR.

Dust Bowl

The over plowing of fertile soil in the
Mid-West led to the creation of the
_____ _____.

New Deal

Many citizens were critical of FDR’s
_____ _____ because it increased the
size of the Federal Government and
the national debt

Huey Long

_____ _____ was critical of FDR
because he believed rich Americans
should “Share their Wealth” with the
poor?

Great Depression

Overproduction, Underconsumption,
Stock Market Speculation and the
Stock Market Crash led to the _____
_____.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

One New Deal Plan, The _____ _____
_____ (AAA), helped farmers by
recovering crop prices and cutting farm
production.