1. Review
SUSSH 18-16

2. Q: What new form of entertainment was available to have in the home in the 1920s?
A: the radio

3. Q: After World War I, Americans became paranoid about the spread of communism. What was this paranoia called?
A: The Red Scare

4. Q: What technique allowed Henry Ford to mass produce the automobile?
A: the assembly line

5. Q: What type of music became very popular in the 1920s in both African American communities and white communities?
A: Jazz

6. Q: What was the name of the raids against communist immigrants in the 1920s?
A: Palmer Raids

7. Q: What artistic and literary movement took place in the African American community in the 1920s?
A: the Harlem Renaissance

8. Q: Who was the most famous jazz musician of the 1920s?
A: Louis Armstrong

9. Q: What term means buying stock for only a portion of what it costs and taking out a loan to pay the rest?
A: buying stock on the margin

10. Q: In general, did farmers experience prosperity in the 1920s?
A: No

11. Q: What is it called when people were reluctant to buy products but producers kept producing them?
A: Overproduction/Underconsumption

12. Q: Who was a famous poet from the Harlem Renaissance?
A: Langston Hughes

13. Q: What was the combination of droughts and windstorms that hit the Midwest in the 1930s called?
A: Dustbowl

14. Q: What was one human cause of the Dustbowl?
A: poor farming practices

15. Q: What is the date October 29, 1929 commonly referred to as?
A: Black Tuesday

16. Q: Who was the president when the stock market crashed?
A: Herbert Hoover

17. Q: Did Hoover provide direct relief to the people during the Great Depression?
A: No

18. Q: When unemployed people lost their homes, they lived in little shacks in makeshift villages. What were these called?
A: Hoovervilles

19. Q: What was the name of FDR’s wave of programs that were intended to fight the Depression?
A: the New Deal

20. Q: What two groups did Eleanor Roosevelt try to help through social reform?
A: Women and Minorities

21. Q: What New Deal program built hydroelectric dams and provided electricity to a poor region?
A: the Tennessee Valley Authority

22. Q: What New Deal program provided benefits for the elderly, those with disabilities, and children?
A: the Social Security Act

23. Q: Who was one of FDR’s biggest critics that wanted to implement a “Share-Our-Wealth” program instead of the New Deal?
A: Huey Long

24. Q: What New Deal program created a board to monitor management practices and protect workers’ rights to join unions?
A: the Wagner Act

25. Q: What did FDR do to attempt to gain power over the judicial branch?
A: the court-packing scheme
-He wanted to change the number of justices on the Supreme Court from 9 to 15 and appoint judges who would pass his New Deal programs

26. Q: How did the Wagner Act affect unions?
A: Union strength increased: more workers joined unions because of the protection of the Wagner Act

27. Q: What act prohibited the sale of arms to countries at war or countries involved in a civil war?
A: the Neutrality Act

28. Q: What New Deal program provided jobs to young single men working in national parks?
A: Civilian Conservation Corps