#018 Unit 6 vocabulary quiz

The federal government gave subsidies to farmers to increase agricultural prices and eliminate overproduction

• National labor relations board

• Intstallment plan

• Agrcultural adjustment Act

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio speeches used to help instill confidence in the American economy and government

• Fireside chats

• The Red Scare

• Spectuation

• First one hundred days

Henry Ford perfected it, it had the employees stay in one spot while it brought the parts to them

• Black Cabinet

• Assembly line

• The Lost Generation

• Social Security Act

A group of African American government employees who helped advise FDR

• Bootlegger

• The Lost Generation

• Assembly Line

• The Black Cabinet

In 1932, thousands of World War I veterans were unemployed and began demanding the government for their promised bonus payments for their service; marched on Washington, DC; President Hoover sent in federal troops to make them leave

• The Lost Generation

• The Bonus March

• Volstead Act

• 21st Amendment

Prices hit an all-time low on October 29, 1929, and the stock market experienced the greatest crash in American history

• Spectuation

• Fireside chats

• Black Tuesday

• Palmer Raids

Criminals who sold and distributed illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Flappers

• Evolution

• Bottlegger

Investors purchased stocks for only a portion of what they cost

• Buying on Margin

• The Charleston

• First 100 days

• Stock Market Crash

Employed young, single men to work in the national parks

• Works Progress Administration

• Civil Conservation Corp

• Buying on margin

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp

A series of storms that hit the Midwest during the Great Depression, causing enormous clouds of dust to be created by the high winds; displaced hundreds of thousands of farmers, forcing them to become homeless migrants

• The Dust Bowl

• The Red Scare

• Speculation

• Fireside chats