Unit+5+Vocabulary


 * 1) Roaring Twenties--->**Economic prosperity- entertainment, happiness, and people being carefree**
 * 2) ====Prohibition / 18th Amendment--->**Banning of alcohol**====
 * 3) ====Herbert Hoover--->**president during 1929-1933, he was a republican, conservative, and believed in Laissez faire**====
 * 4) ====Black Tuesday--> **Stock market crash**====
 * 5) ====Great Depression--->**poverty, depression, unemployment, bankruptcy, farming failures, drought conditions, etc**====
 * 6) ====Smoot-Hawley Tariff-->**Laws passed on by congress to raise taxes on imports**====
 * 7) ====Reconstruction Finance Corporation--->**A gov't agency to give loans to struggling banks, businesses, etc**====
 * 8) ====Hoover Dam-->**was built and provided many jobs and electricity, also prevnt floods**====
 * 9) ====Hooverville--> **people who were unemployed lived in shacks**====
 * 10) ====Bonus Army---> **WWI veterans wanting their bonus' early**====
 * 11) ====Dust Bowl-->**event which were dust storms that hit the region**====
 * 12) ====Public works projects---> **jobs from the new deal that provided work for the people**====
 * 13) ====Franklin Delano Roosevelt---> **he was president, he defeated Hoover and was the the only president tp serve the longest in presidency**====
 * 14) ====Eleanor Roosevelt--> **FDR's wife, she was his eyes, ears , legs and would go out and travel to speak to the people**====
 * 15) ====New Deal--> **Programs set by FDR to help the GD**====
 * 16) ====Laissez Faire capitalism---> **The govt stay out of economy**====
 * 17) ====Communism---> **govt takes control**====
 * 18) ====Huey Long====
 * 19) ====Father Charles Coughlin====
 * 20) ====Fireside Chat--->**speaking through the radio to the public**====
 * 21) ====Bank Holiday-->**legal holiday which banks are closed**====
 * 22) ====Emergency Banking Act--->**gave government the opportunity to inspect health of all banks**====
 * 23) ====AAA-->**Protected farmers from price drops by giving them money to stop planting crops**====
 * 24) ====CCC-->**Jobs that were created for the average american, with little or no training**====
 * 25) ====NIRA-->**Government rules for working conditions,Government regulations for business productions**====
 * 26) ====TVA-->**Government built dams(Hoover dam) to prevent floods and to sell electricity**====
 * 27) ====FDIC--->**provide deposit insurance**====
 * 28) ====SEC--->**Regulated stock market**====
 * 29) ====WPA-->**Provided/Employed 8.5mil people works in Arts, Theater,Literary projects, and public construction projects**====
 * 30) ====REA-->**expansion of electricity, by 1940s 40% American farms electrified**====
 * 31) ====Social Security-->**unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled and dependent children**====
 * 32) ====Fair Labor Standards Act-->**minimum wage and banned child labor**====
 * 33) 21st Amendment--->**18th amendment repealed**
 * 34) ====Court-packing-->**Unsuccessful attempt to add six additional judges to the supreme court**====
 * 35) ====Black Cabinet--->**African Americans were hired as fill posts in the govt**====
 * 36) ====Frances Perkins---> **Secretary of Labor**====
 * 37) ====Dorothea Lange---> **photographer who captured pictures of people during the Dust bowl**====
 * 38) ====John Steinbeck--->**Author, novel:Grapes of wrath**====