Unit 2 Review

The ____________________ ________________ ______ helped farmers because it sought to end overproduction and raise crop prices.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

The War of the Worlds was so realistic that some people thought that ___________________ were invading the Earth.

Aliens

__________________ ________________ a wealthy banker who served in the Harding administration.

Andrew Melon

Support for the New Deal ______ ________________ declined because some members of Congress thought artists promote radical values.

Art Programs

The changing __________________ of the people living in the developing suburbs became more conservative and more politically active.

Attitude

Economist _______ ____________ _________ believed the Great Depression was caused by the lack of government intervention.

John Maynard Keynes

___________ ____________________ was the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

John Steinbeck

Most Americans who opposed the ____ ________ ________ embraced the notion that America was a "melting pot."

Ku Klux Klan

_____ ________ _______ targeted Catholics, Jews, and Blacks.

Ku Klux Klan

___________________ __________wrote of the pain and pride of being black.

Langston Hughes

The ________________ ___________________ _____________________ developed codes of fair competition and it worked for business and labor leaders to determine minimum wages and prices.

National Recovery Administration

The piece of the New Deal legislation that had a ________________ effect on the Native Americans was the Navajo Livestock Reduction program.

Negatively

The goals of the _________ ___________ was to provide relief, recovery, and reform.

New Deal

The ___________ ____________ ___________________ was a strong political force that gave Democrats a majority in both houses of Congress for many years.

New Deal Coalition

The U.S. curtailed investments in Europe, which caused the Great Depression to _______________________ overseas.

Spread

The sense of group identity created by the ______________ _________________ formed a basis for later progress for blacks in America.

Harlem Renaissance

___________________ ______________________ was a 1920s cultural outpouring associated with African Americans.

Harlem Renaissance

European countries reacted to the ______________-______________ ____________ by passing high protective tariffs.

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

A major result of _____________ __________ innovative manufacturing techniques is that car prices went down.

Henry Ford's

The president of the United States when the stock market crashed was _______________ ______________.

Herbert Hoover

____________ ____________ was the Senator from Louisiana who opposed the New Deal.

Huey Long

The _____________________ _____________________ _______________ of 1934 prohibited government from further dividing Native American land.

Indian Reorganization Act

FDR set aside ___________ million acers of land for national parks.

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It was the _________ that felt the first effects of the stock market crash because people began to lose confidence in the economy, and frightened depositors began to remove their money from banks.

Banks

______________ ______________ was the occasion of the stock market crash.

Black Tuesday

The _______________ ______________ were W.W.I veterans who marched on Washington D.C. to demand payment promised by Congress.

Bonus Army

_________ __________________ is a period which the value of stocks increased.

Bull Market

During the 1930s, the _______________________ ___ ___________________ ______________ stopped discouraging the practice of Indian religion.

Bureau of Indian Affairs

The _______________ ______________ is the periodic expansion and contraction of the economy.

Business Cycle

Frances Perkins was the first female ____________________ member.

Cabinet

President Hoover responded ________________ to the Great Depression because he thought that the business cycle would correct itself.

Cautiously

The right to ________________________ ______________________ was part of the Wagner Act.

Collective Bargaining

____________________ _____________________ allows union members to negotiate hours and wages.

Collective Bargaining*

_________________ instituted the R.F.C. to loan money to banks so that they could lend money to businesses to stimulate economic activity.

Congress

A chief complaint of ______________________________ against the New Deal was that it made the government to powerful.

Conservatives

The ________________ _________________ of the 1920s, affected the lives of women by making life easier for women in the urban areas.

Consumer Economy

_________________ __________________ is when FDR attempted to change the Supreme Court.

Court Packing

The Indian New Deal reversed the conditions of the ________________ __________ because John Collier helped get laws passed that restored tribal control over American Indian land.

Dawes Act

________________ ___________ an agreement intended to settle international debts from World War I.

Dawes Plan

The uneven distribution of wealth lead to the ______________________ because farmers had surpluses of crops, wealthy people grew wealthier, and acquiring credit was easy.

Depression

_____________ ____________ was the general who dispersed protestors in the capital by ordering federal troops to fire on them with tear gas.

Douglas MacArthur

The New Deal strengthen capitalism because the ____ ___ ___ ___ and the ___ ___ ___ restored trust in banks and the stock market.

F.D.I.C. / S.E.C.

____________________ contributed to the problem of the Dust Bowl by using intensive farming methods that removed protective grasses.

Farmers

The _____________________ ___________ ____________________ set a precedent for future funding of the arts and artists.

Federal Art Project

_________________ ________________ __________________ was a New Deal program that funded large murals.

Federal Art Project

The ________________ ______________ tight monetary policy affect the economy because it reduced the money supply, which limited the amount of money in circulation.

Federal Reserve's

Some Americans blamed the ______________ ________________ on capitalism.

Great Depression

Many Americans decided that the country needed new __________________ in 1932 because President Hoover's volunteerism and trickle-down economics policies had failed.

Leadership

______________ ___________________ is considered a jazz legend for his ability to play the trumpet and his subtle sense of improvisation.

Louis Armstrong

The movement of _______________ ______________ failed because there was no effective leadership after he was deported to Jamaica.

Marcus Garvey

_____________ _____________ _____________ was a member of the Black Cabinet.

Mary McLeod Bethune

________ _________________ is a manufacturing method in which each worker performs one step.

Mass Production

The Civilian Conservation Corps extended job opportunities to ______________________ ___________________ and other minority groups.

Mexican Americans

Henry Ford was able to reduce the sale price of the ____________ ___ by studying the techniques of Chicago meatpacking houses and used their same process.

Model T

The Supreme Court rule that the ___ ___ ___ ___ unconstitutional because the ___ ___ ___ ___ regulated interstate commerce.

N.I.R.A. / N.I.R.A.

In the 1920s, most of the _________________ ________________ hope to go about avoiding war was to avoid close interaction with other nations.

National Leaders

Dust Bowl refuges who moved westward to find work were called ____________.

Okies

Senator Huey Long, an opponent of the New Deal because he felt it did not do enough to help _________________ Americans and proposed a high tax program on the wealthy and large corporations and redistribute their income.

Poor

___________________ is risky stock purchases made by investors with the hope of high returns.

Speculation

_______________ __________________ is putting money in to the hands of consumers to stimulate the economy.

Pump Priming

The government efforts to encourage or pressure Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico was called ____________________.

Repatriation

The _____________________ gain power in Congress in 1938 because the economy took a downturn and wipe out much of FDR's progress.

Republicans

To help __________________________, Roosevelt introduce the Social Security Act.

Retirees

The _________________ _______________________________ ___________________ provided electricity to farmers.

Rural Electrification Act

At its heart, the ______________ _____________ was a clash between religion and science.

Scopes Trial

_____________ ____________ set the theories of Charles Darwin against fundamentalism

Scopes Trial*

Roosevelt created the ________________ ________________ _______________ to regulated the stock market.

Securities Exchange Commission

78._____________ ___________ a psychologist who stressed the importance of the unconscious mind.

Sigmund Freud

Harlem was ______________________ because it was a central place for African Americans to voice concerns about racial problems.

Significant

A ______- ______________ strike was use to protest against General Motors.

Sit-Down

A significant flaw in the ____________ ___________ _____ was it did not apply to domestics or farmworkers at first.

Social Security Act

In 1929, the ________________ ________________ crashed because investors lost confidence in the market and rushed to sell their shares.

Stock Market

____________ ___________ are agricultural workers who work on land owned by someone else.

Tenant Farmers

Critics of the ______________________ _________________ ____________________ thought it gave the government direct control of business.

Tennessee Valley Authority

______ ________ ____________ was the first film with synchronized sound.

The Jazz Singer

The theory that money invested in banks and businesses will work its way through the system to laborers is called __________-______ ___________.

Trickle-Down Economics

The policy of ________________________ called for public works programs.

Volunteerism

_________________________ failed because businesses and citizens acted in their individual best interests.

Volunteerism

A _________________ ______________ is formed when the government assumes responsibility for providing for citizens' needs.

Welfare State

_______________ ________________ ___________________ was the New Deal program use to build and improve highways.

Works Progress Administration