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26 Cards in this Set
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
An agreement between two nations proposing peaceful solutions to conflicts, signed after World War 1 |
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Flappers |
A young women who challenged traditional ideas of womanhood in the 20s |
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Red Scare |
A widespread fear of communism and communist |
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21 amendment |
An amendment that ended prohibition |
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Fundamentalism |
A religious beliefs characterized by a literal interpretation of the of the bible
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Teapot Dome scandal |
A scandal under the Harding administration in which government officials were accused of taking bribes |
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Talkie |
A film that includes sound |
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Jazz Age |
A name for the decade of the 1920 |
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Harlem Renaissance |
A period of artistic achievement during the 1920s |
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Mass Culture |
Leisure cultural activities shared by many people |
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Buying on the Margin |
The process of purchasing stock with credit, hoping to sell at a high enough price to pay the loan and make a profit |
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Black Tuesday |
October 29, 1929, one of the largest |
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Great Depression |
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
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Bonus Army |
And assemblage of 43,000 people who gathered in Washington DC to demand cash payment redemption
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Fireside Chat |
A series of radio broadcast made by President Franklin Roosevelt
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Dust bowlm |
A period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture
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Business cycle
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A cycle or series of cycles of economic expansion and contraction
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New deal
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A series of programs in acted in the United States between 1933 and 1938
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Socials security act
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Created a system transfer payments in with younger working people support or older retired people
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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A federal agency that controls the electricity irrigation in flood control from the dams and reservoirs line with Missy river
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Emergency banking relief act
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A bill passed in reaction to the financially adverse conditions of the great depression
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Works progress administration |
Employed thousands of unemployed workers to do public work
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Securities exchange commission
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Regulate the securities markets and protect investors
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Warren Harding |
1921-1923••Republican••"Return to Normalcy" |
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Calvin Coolidge |
1923-1929••Republican••"Keep Cool with Coolidge" |
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Herbert Hoover |
1929-1933••Republican••"A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage" |
