the purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest Buying on Margin

Legislation that required men to register for military services Selective Service Act

A period of widespread fear of Communism; resulted in a decline in labor union membership Red Scare

forbids the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. 18 th Amendment

A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the organization League of Nations

The 28 th President of the United States; initially declared neutrality in WWI and later proposed his Fourteen Points and the creation of the League of Nations Woodrow Wilson

The 31 st President of the United States; used a laissez faire approach to the economy following the Stock Market crash of 1929; asked private institutions to support Americans; lost the election of 1932 to FDR Herbert Hoover

The 32nd President of the United States; his administration was marked by relief programs, measures to increase employment and assist industrial and agricultural recovery from the Depression, and World War II. FDR

a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German- Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the U.S. entered WWI. Zimmerman Telegram

Granted women the right to vote (women’s suffrage) 19 th Amendment

1920s musician who helped spread Jazz music from New Orleans to the North Louis Armstrong

a flowering of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of New York City. Harlem Renaissance

the 1919 peace treaty at the end of WWI which established new nations, borders, and war reparations Treaty of Versailles

Repealed the 18 th Amendment and made the manufacture and sale of alcohol legal in the U.S. 21 st Amendment

Hidden underground nightclubs where liquor was sold illegally during Prohibition Speakeasies

1920s gangster who made millions of dollars by selling illegally imported/manufactur ed alcohol; operated over 10,000 speakeasies Al Capone

This individual claimed that the New Deal policies were inadequate and proposed a social program called Share- Our-Wealth Huey Long

two Italian immigrant anarchists who evaded the draft during WWI, and were later arrested and accused of robbery and murder, and sentenced to death Sacco & Vanzetti

This baseball hero hit the most home runs in a season during the 1920s Babe Ruth

1920s Author who used a simplified style of writing; author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farwell to Arms Ernest Hemingway

1920s Author who coined the phrase “Roaring Twenties” F. Scott Fitzgerald

American labor union organizer; known socialist who was arrested for speaking out against WWI and the Selective Service Act Eugene v. Debs

An agency created in 1933 to insure individuals’ bank accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures.

Author of The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about the grim lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression John Steinbeck

An agency established as part of the 2nd New Deal, that provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields Works Progress Administration (WPA)

The programs and policies to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. New Deal

A federal corporation established in 1933 to construct dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley region to generate electricity as well as to prevent floods TVA

A piece of legislation to raise prices of farm products in the attempt to help farmers through the Great Depression; was later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court AAA

FDR’s wife and First Lady who served as an important advisor on domestic policy, specifically that which affected minorities (women, African Americans) Eleanor Roosevelt

An agency established as part of the New Deal, that put young unemployed men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping erosion- control and flood- control projects CCC