4/28 Vocabulary Quiz

Match the following

• the difference in income between wealthy and other groups in society

• Stock Market Crash

• paying off a credit loan in a certain amount per month, plus interest

• Command Economy

• October 29, 1929

• Installment Plans

• economic system where the government makes almost all the economic decisions

• Income Disparity

• Invented by Henry Ford, led to more efficient production

• Assembly Line

Match the following

• migration of African Americans from the South to the North

• Court Packing (1937)

• celebration of African American culture through arts, literature, music

• Great Migration

• FDR's plan to add Supreme Court justices to ensure his New Deal policies will get upheld

• Keynesian Economics

• Government will become involved with the economy when necessary

• Relief, Recovery, and Reform (Three R's)

• The goals of FDR's New Deal

• Harlem Renaissance

Match the following

• loans to farmers and payments not to produce crops or livestock

• National Industrial Recovery Act

• jobs repairing roads and bridges, building schools and parks, and for artists

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• forestry and conservation jobs for young single men

• Works Progress Administration

• insured savings so people would not lose their money if banks closed

• Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)

• gave the President the power to regulate prices and wages

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Match the following

• price of goods and services increase

• New Deal

• FDR legislation that helped provide jobs and help banks during Great Depression

• Wagner Act

• Right of employees in private sector to organize in labor unions

• Inflation

• Provided electricity to rural areas

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Hands off government

• Laissez-Faire

Match the following

• Conserving resources such as food, gasoline, and steel

• Rationing

• Devastating drought that wiped out the Great Plains farmland

• Negro Leagues

• Began in the 1920s as a result of the fear in Communism

• 1st Red Scare

• Baseball league for African Americans

• Pearl Harbor

• Japanese attack on December 7, 1941

• Dust Bowl

Match the following

• desegregated the military

• Panama Canal

• Integrated government facilities

• War Bonds

• citizens helping finance the war

• EO 9981

• Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps

• EO 9066

• provided a shorter distance for American trade and military in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

• EO 8802