Honors US History Chapter 23 Study Guide

Hoover's response to Democrats taking control of House

A political deadlock ensued, as factions in Congress battled over farm policy

Communist Party

A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I Lenin originally the russian Bolshevik

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Agency established in 1932 to provide emergency relief to large businesses, insurance companies, and banks.

Anti American literature

Anti-Americanism is a sentiment that espouses a dislike of or opposition to the American. Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European anti-Americanism from the early 1800s

Market trading 1928-1929

Comes to a halt because of the market crash which happened because of too harsh of penalties put on the Germans.

Frank Capra

Director that celebrated simple values and criticized the wealthy and politicians in films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Hardships of Asian Americans

Discriminated against at an all time high during this time period.

Farmers land during the great depression

During World War I, farmers worked hard to produce record crops and livestock. When prices fell they tried to produce even more to pay their debts, taxes and living expenses. In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.

Hoovers view of the economy and the start of his administration

Economy needed help and Hoover was prepared to do what it took to do to rebound the economy.

European demand for American goods

Europeans could no longer make their own goods.

Hoovers federal spending during the depression

Hoover received commitments from private industry to spend $1.8 billion for new construction and repairs to be started in 1930, to stimulate employment. The President ordered federal departments to speed up their construction projects and asked all governors to expand public works projects in their states.

Hoover and business leaders

Hoover wasn't in favor of a select few business members holding the majority of the wealth and thus basically running the country.

Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Idealistic American volunteers who served in the Spanish Civil War, defending Spanish republican forces from the fascist General Francisco Franco's nationalist coup. Some 3,000 Americans served alongside volunteers from other countries.

Election of 1932/FDR

Landslide victory for FDR (Democrat), 'New Deal' for American people, First 100 Days - more legislation passed at this time during Wilson's entire administration (76 laws passed and signed), 'fire side' chats, progressive ideals

Importance of American Literature in the 1930's

Literature in the 1930s provided an escape from the trials of everyday life for most people. Because of the Great Depression (an economic depression) and the resulting poverty and uncertainty it left in most American lives, many people looked to works of fiction to entertain them.

Interest rates 1931 federal reserve board

Measures put in place to stabilize the economy after the stock market crashed.

City with the highest unemployment rate.

New York

Fall of support for communist party

People finally saw that Communism wouldn't work with America's Capitalist stock market for it to thrive.

Radio during the depression

Radio was a primary vehicle for the exchange of information and news during the Depression. President Roosevelt used the radio for regular "fireside chats" with the American people, explaining the major events of the time and his response to them in a calm and reassuring voice.

President Elect FDR's response to Hoover

Rebound the economy and keep an eye on Germany.

Farmer's Holiday Association

The Farmers' Holiday Association was a movement of Midwestern United States farmers who, during the Great Depression, endorsed the withholding of farm products from the market, in essence creating a farmers' holiday from work. The Farmers' Holiday Association was organized in May 1932 by Milo Reno

Mexican Americans response to depression

The Great Depression of the 1930s hit Mexican immigrants especially hard. Along with the job crisis and food shortages that affected all U.S. workers, Mexicans and Mexican Americans had to face an additional threat: deportation. As unemployment swept the U.S., hostility to immigrant workers grew, and the government began a program of repatriating immigrants to Mexico. Immigrants were offered free train rides to Mexico, and some went voluntarily, but many were either tricked or coerced into repatriation, and some U.S. citizens were deported simply on suspicion of being Mexican.

US and debt owed to it after the crash of 29

The debt was owed to the US from Europe especially Germany.

Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929

This act established the Federal Farm Board, a lending bureau for hard-pressed farmers. The act also aimed to help farmers help themselves through new producers' cooperatives. As the depression worsened in 1930, the Board tried to bolster falling prices by buying up surpluses, but it was unable to cope with the flood of farm produce to market.

Dale Carnegie

United States educator famous for writing a book about how to win friends and influence people (1888-1955)

Will Hays

United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United states films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954)

Gender role shifts during the depression

Women gained more roles in the family but mostly in the workplace.

Erskine Caldwell

Wrote Tobacco Road (1932). author of rural southern life, mainly poverty stricken white farmers and the basic hungers of human life

Dust Bowl, 1935

a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon.

Concentration (location) of Asian Americans in United states

almost three quarters of all Asian Americans live in California, New York, Texas, New Jersey, Hawaii, Illinois, Washington, Florida, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.