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