Terms Presidents1920s II GD

This system set up pensions for the elderly.

Social Security

This was the name of the farmers on the Great Plains.

Okies

This built 40 dams, planted new forests, and set up schools in a 7 state region.

Tennessee Valley Authority

This act let the government decide which banks could reopen and which must remain closed.

Emergency Banking Act

This act protected workers from unfair management practices allowing collective bargaining.

The Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)

This president promised a “return to normalcy.”

Harding

This president’s economic policy was coined “pump priming.”

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

This president’s economic policy was coined “trickle down” theory.

Hoover

This president’s administration was scarred by the Teapot Dome Scandal.

Harding

This was Harding’s successor who was considered to be even more pro business.

Coolidge

This “invention” (although actually invented much earlier) had the greatest impact on life in the 1920s.

The automobile

The writers of the 1920s like F. Scott Fitzgerald who questioned the materialism of the age were known as this

The Lost Generation

Women in 1920s who had more freedom and cut their hair into bobs were called this.

Flappers

Many people purchased goods they could not afford using this payment program.

Installment Plan

Many Americans speculated in this trying to make a quick profit.

Stock Market

This was the political attempt to regulate morality by the 18 th amendment.

Prohibition

This organization gained new found popularity in the 1920s due to many Americans’ reaction to rapid change and mass immigration.

The KKK

This trial, convicting 2 Italian anarchists, symbolized the denial of due process in the 1920s Nativist Americans.

Sacco and Vanzetti

This crime organization gained great power during Prohibition.

The Mafia

This trial was the result of the clash between the Christian fundamentalists and new scientific discoveries.

The Scopes Trial

This was the most immediate cause of the Great Depression.

The Stock Market Crash

This president believed in rugged individualism and hence provided no direct relief to the people.

Hoover

Although he had no specific plans for fighting the Great Depression, this man was elected president in 1932.

FDR

The New Deal attempted to deal with this fundamental problem of the farmers.

Overproduction

FDR attempted to “pack” this in order to prevent his New Deal reforms from being declared unconstitutional.

Supreme Court