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This term means a fear of immigrants and belief in the superiority of U.S. born Americans

Nativism

This new Deal reform agency protected against bank failures

FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

This federal program was designed to bring Mexicans to work farms in the Southwest

Bracero program

Part of Truman’s “Fair Deal” platform dealt with what minority issue

Segregation or discrimination

Name of LBJ’s program that created Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start and other welfare programs to help the poor

The Great Society

The crash of the stock market was caused by speculation and ____________.

Buying on Margin

Reason the Hawley-Smoot tariff is so historically important

Highest tariff rates in U.S. history – slowed trade nearly to a halt

FDR created many agencies to convert the economy to wartime. This process is called ______________.

Mobilization

This new technology helped create a national culture, especially through advertising.

Television

This government agency was created to help with pollution and waste issues.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)

Name one of the entertainment mediums that helped create a national culture

Radio or Movies

Geographic disaster that contributed to the misery of the Depression in the Great Plains

Dust Bowl

As in WW1, these provided a source of food for many households.

Victory Gardens

Because of the Space Race and Arms race, these two subjects got more emphasis in schools

Math and Science

The term rock-n- roll originated in this city

Cleveland, Ohio

Civil rights organization that used legal action to achieve its goals

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Unemployment for African Americans reached this % during the Depression

67%

What did the 2 “V”s in Double V Campaign stand for?

Victory against Nazis in Europe and victory against discrimination and racism at home

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC believed in this technique for achieving civil rights

Passive resistance, non- violent civil disobedience

Law that prohibited discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting and public accomodations

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Amendment that gave women the right to vote

19 th amendment

Why were married women fired during the depression?

To make more jobs for men

Industry where most women worked during WW2

Defense industries

Reason for feelings of discontent by women during the years after WW2

Forced out of jobs and encouraged to return to homemaking

Organization created by middle class white women to push for equal rights

NOW (National Organization for Women)