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1920s II
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This system set up pensions for the elderly.
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Social Security
4
This was the name of the farmers on the Great
Plains.
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Okies
6
This built 40 dams, planted new forests, and set
up schools in a 7 state region.
7
Tennessee Valley Authority
8
This act let the government decide which banks
could reopen and which must remain closed.
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Emergency Banking Act
10
This act protected workers from unfair management
practices allowing collective bargaining.
11
The Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
12
This president promised a return to normalcy.
13
Harding
14
This presidents economic policy was coined pump
priming.
15
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
16
This presidents economic policy was coined
trickle down theory.
17
Hoover
18
This presidents administration was scarred by
the Teapot Dome Scandal.
19
Harding
20
This was Hardings successor who was considered
to be even more pro business.
21
Coolidge
22
This invention (although actually invented much
earlier) had the greatest impact on life in the
1920s.
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The automobile
24
The writers of the 1920s like F. Scott Fitzgerald
who questioned the materialism of the age were
known as this
25
The Lost Generation
26
Women in 1920s who had more freedom and cut their
hair into bobs were called this.
27
Flappers
28
Many people purchased goods they could not afford
using this payment program.
29
Installment Plan
30
Many Americans speculated in this trying to make
a quick profit.
31
Stock Market
32
This was the political attempt to regulate
morality by the 18th amendment.
33
Prohibition
34
This organization gained new found popularity in
the 1920s due to many Americans reaction to
rapid change and mass immigration.
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The KKK
36
This trial, convicting 2 Italian anarchists,
symbolized the denial of due process in the 1920s
Nativist Americans.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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This crime organization gained great power during
Prohibition.
39
The Mafia
40
This trial was the result of the clash between
the Christian fundamentalists and new scientific
discoveries.
41
The Scopes Trial
42
This was the most immediate cause of the Great
Depression.
43
The Stock Market Crash
44
This president believed in rugged individualism
and hence provided no direct relief to the people.
45
Hoover
46
Although he had no specific plans for fighting
the Great Depression, this man was elected
president in 1932.
47
FDR
48
The New Deal attempted to deal with this
fundamental problem of the farmers.
49
Overproduction
50
FDR attempted to pack this in order to prevent
his New Deal reforms from being declared
unconstitutional.
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Supreme Court