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History Ch. 24 & 25

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show Political activist    
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Louis Armstrong   show  
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Duke Ellington   show  
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show Author    
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Claude Mckay   Author   show
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show Musician    
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James Weldon Johnson   show  
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Countee Cullen   show  
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The Harlem Renaissance   show  
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Capitalism   show  
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Bolsheviks/ Communists/ "Reds"   Took control of Russia in WW1   show
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Recession   show  
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Speakeasies   illegal bars   show
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show care-free young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts    
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Gross National Product   show  
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Expatriate   people that choose to live in another country   show
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show making and selling illegal alcohol    
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Isolationism   isolated from world affairs   show
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"Red Scare"   show  
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Five-Power Treaty   limited the size of the navies of The US, Italy, France, Japan and Britain   show
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Kellogg-Briand Pact   show  
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Eighteenth Amendment   Established Prohibition   show
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Nineteenth Amendment   Guaranteed women the right to vote   show
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show established an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country    
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Scopes Trial   show  
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show Sacco and Vanzetti were charged and killed for robbing a bank and killing a guard. It revealed deep feelings against foreigners and radicals, U.S. nativism    
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show fired the entire police force    
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Name of the corruption scandal that symbolized Harding's administration and presidency   Teapot Dome   show
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show Baseball Star, who hit 60 home runs in 1927    
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The Jazz Singer   the first "talkie", movie with sound   show
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show it provided jobs for americans, needed materials for building the cars, such as rubber, glass and steel, which they got from other industries, which boosted their industries    
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Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis   Flew the Atlantic Ocean solo, the spirit of St. Louis was his plane   show
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Will Rogers   show  
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T.S. Eliot   white poet   show
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Franklin D. Roosevelt   President of the United States, created the New Deal to help end the Great Depression   show
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show author of Grapes of Wrath, about farm families fleeing from the dust bowl    
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show Musicians, worked with with big band music and swing music    
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show President of the US during the beginning of the Great Depression, thought the Great Depression was temporary, tried to support the needy and called on business leaders not to cut wages or production of goods    
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Eleanor Roosevelt   Wife of FDR, the first lady, who often acted as her husband's eyes and ears, she campaigned for minorities and women   show
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show Roosevelt's secretary of labor    
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Shirley Temple   show  
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Clark Gable   show  
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show became the first women to fly the atlantic ocean solo    
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King Kong   movie about a giant gorilla on a mysterious island   show
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Bugs Bunny   show  
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Joe Louis   show  
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Jesse Owens   an african american athlete who won four gold medals in track and field events at the 1936 olympic games in berlin   show
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show mao zedong was the head of the chinese communist forces who defeated chiang kai-skek, the head of the chinese government    
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Dorothea Lange   photographer who photographed people during the depression-era   show
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show a severe economic crisis that the US slid into due to the stock market crash and other financial problems    
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Default   fail to make loan payments   show
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show workers who move from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables    
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show informal radio talks made by Roosevelt hoping to gain the public's confidence    
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Black Thursday   show  
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)   show  
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)   show  
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show insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government    
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)   regulated the sale of stocks and bonds, the law gave the SEC the power to punish dishonest stockbrokers and speculators   show
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Social Security Act (SSA) Whom did the SSA help?   created a tax on workers and employers, that money provided a monthly pension for retired people. The SSA helped, people with disabilities, the elderly, the poor, and the children of parents who could not support them   show
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Public Works Administration (PWA)   show  
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show Built dams to provide cheap electric power to seven Southern states; set up schools and health centers    
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)   Gave relief to the unemployed and needy   show
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Pluto   furthest planet from the sun, recently has been a dwarf planet   show
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show pitiful, shanty towns made out of boxes that homeless lived in during the Depression    
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New Guinea   located immediately north of Australia in the Southwest Pacific, is the world's second largest island.   show
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Antarctica   The coldest of the seven continents, home to penguins, seals and polar bears, current population of humans 0. is suffering due to global warming   show
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show they were veteran soldiers from WW1, and they wanted their $1000 bonus that they were promised to get in 1945    
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show The dust bowl was a wind storm in the great plains that picked up soil, that had dried out when farmers cleared millions of acres of sod, which was holding the soil in place and then a drought struck.    
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Ma Rainey   show  
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show Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado    
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show some radio programs were soap operas, soap operas earned their names because they were sponsored by laundry detergents    
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show many african americans in the south lost their jobs and the collapse of farm prices crushed african american farmers, many african americans had to move up north    
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How did FDR attempt to prevent the supreme court from undoing the new deal?   FDR increased the number of justices on the court from 9 to 15   show
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show the supreme court believed that Congress had exceeded its lawful power to regulate interstate commerce    
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show progressives and liberals, the poor and unemployed, urban workers and african americans were supported him. democrats were most likely not to support him.    
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What was the New Deal?   show  
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show Stock Market Crash, Banks suffered when people defaulted, The growing gap in wealth between rich people and most americans, employers cut wages and laid off workers so they could no longer afford consumer goods    
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What areas, and groups of people, were the hardest hit by the Great Depression? Why?   show  
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How did Hoover handle the Depression?   show  
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Why did the stock market crash?   show Also rich stock owners started selling their stocks, the companies were losing a lot of their money, so their stocks went down  
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How did talkies change the roles of actors?   actors no longer just acted, they also had to say their lines   show
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How did sound change some silent star's popularity?   show  
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What were two aviation inventions in the Great Depression?   airplanes and   show
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show Roosevelt passed the Emergency Banking Relief act to help banks after closing them for 4 days. Roosevelt sent out a radio broadcast saying that it was save for people to put their money back into the banks.   Congress established the FDIC to insure bank deposits and avoid future banking crisis. Congress also passed a law regulating the sale of stocks and bonds and created the SEC. FDR also passed the Social security act which provided pensions for the needy  
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