WWI veterans who demanded their money early from the government

the giving of money or food by the government directly to needy people

A time of utter economic disaster; started in the United States in 1929, with high unemployment.

federal government deportation of Mexicans back to Mexico

A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and use of bad farming practices the early 1930s

New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power by providing jobs

1935: An act that provided minimal sustenance to the elderly to save them from poverty.

radio addresses in which Roosevelt spoke directly to the public to reassure them

acronym at banks which indicates money is insured at banks by the federal government

Nickname for the New Deal programs that were often referred to by their initials that provided Jobs to Americans

what was the term for FDR's programs to help get the country out of the Great Depression

Hoover vs. FDR; two competing ideologies - laissez faire vs. government intervention

Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.

theory that money poured into the top of the economy pyramid will trickle down to the base

the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all

October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed. Lead to the Panic of 1929

Presidential wife who became an effective lobbyist for the poor during the New Deal

group of shacks in which homeless lived during the Great Depression

novelist who wrote about the hardships of the Great Depression

hired to photograph ordinary Americans experiencing the depression

African-American Jazz musician

Top gangster of the 1920s, eventually convicted of income-tax evasion

in World War I, the first U.S. military force to be deployed to France

Germany sank this American boat, America goes to war

The migration of African Americans from the South to Northern cities for jobs

President of the United States during World War I and created the League of Nations

An act that required all men between 21-30 to register for the military draft

Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.

militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire

France, Britain and Russia

when Britain blockaded Germany's ports so nothing could get in or out

Treaty to end WWI and the punishment of Germany was the main cause of WWII.

An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.

Gave women the right to vote

Roaring 20s: Prohibition, KKK, cars, movies, flappers, Jazz, Harlem, Scopes trial

African-American artistic movement centered in Harlem, New York

argued that all important knowledge could be found in the Bible

A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

buying material goods

An arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country

1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution and supported by Clarence Darrow

the idea that society should be based on public ownership and communal control of property

A period of general fear of communists

people who oppose all forms of organized government

the controversial science of improving population by controlled breeding

Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era

illegal bars where alcohol was served during Prohibition

New conservative Republican, wanted to return to normalcy

Relating to the U.S. Or it's people, language, or culture