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smuggled illegal alcohol from Canada
bootleggers
set up League of Women Voters
Carrie Chapman Catt
people in US couldn't buy or sell alcohol
Prohibition
to reduce a nation's weapons of war
disarmament
small fashions that dies out quickly
fads
buying with one down payment and many monthly payments
installment buying
best baseball player of his time
Babe Ruthe
wrote
Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
organized the "Back to Africa" movement
Marcus Garby
defeated Al Smith in election of 1928
Herbert Hoover
what Warren Harding called the return to life before World War 1
normalcy
experience of blacks in US during
Harlem Renaissance
believed success in American business meant success for Americans
Calvin Coolidge
first movie w/ soundtrack
Jazz Singer
showed nations wanted to avoid another war
Bryant-Kelloggs Pact
ban on manufacture and sale of alcohol + women's suffrage was all achieved by
amendments
women won the right to do what in 1920
vote
stock prices rise during this kind of a market
Bull Market
increased by the increase of the automobile industry
gas stations, tourist cabins, restaurants
quota system and fear of communists
red scare
why did farmers have economic troubles in 1920
over-production
farmers became what after leaving their farms
migrant workers
made by Roosevelt & Hoover to provide jobs
Public Works Programs
advised FDR on economic issues
Brain Trust
held by workers for more pay
sit-down strikes
homeless people named their shack villages
Hoovervilles
criticized the New Deal & called for tax on rich
Huey Long
Uncle Tom's Children
by
Richard Right
blamed by many for Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
toured country as eyes & ears of FDR
Eleanor Roosevelt
first woman Cabinet member
Francis Perkins
before Great Depression, this group faced economic hard times
farmers
provided boos to organized labor
Wagner Act
talks between unions & managers was an example of
collective bargaining
many opposed this because it interfered with economy
the New Deal
what did the Civilian Conservations Corps (CCC) & WPA do
gave jobs to unemployed
made of World War 1 veterans
Bonus Army
one of the most immediate effect of the Great Depression besides stock market crash
banks fail
how did stock market crash hurt Americans
stocks become worthless
caused the Dust Bowl
drought, overgrazing, over-plowing
result of this ended policy of destroying Indian religions
Indian New Deal
how Americans found escape during hard times
going to the movies
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Ch. 28-29 Review for Test
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Ch. 28-29 Review for Test
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