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The New Deal
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Henry Ford used the assembly line to create this item
What is the automobile/Ford Model T?
$100 - Henry Ford used the assembly line to create this item
Independent, assertive young women of the 1920s
Who are flappers?
$200 - Independent, assertive young women of the 1920s
Bars run by bootleggers during prohibition
$300 - Bars run by bootleggers during prohibition
What are speakeasies?
Contributions made by: Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus
Garvey, Duke Ellington, jazz, blues, Apollo Theater, Cotton
Club
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
$400 - Contributions made by: Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey,
Duke Ellington, jazz, blues, Apollo Theater, Cotton Club
1920 trial that led to the conviction and execution of two Italian immigrants; contributed to nativist tensions in the U.S.
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
$500 - 1920 trial that led to the conviction and execution of two Italian immigrants; contributed to nativist tensions in the U.S.
This 1925 trial reflected the conflict between religion and science
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial/State of Tennessee v. John
Thomas Scopes/Scopes Trial
$100 - This 1925 trial reflected the conflict between religion and science
1921 Act that restricted newcomers/immigrants in any given year to a quota set at 3%
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
$200 - 1921 Act that restricted newcomers/immigrants in any given year to a quota set at 3%
“Useless” pact made war illegal, but gave no provisions for enforcement.
$300 “Useless” pact made war illegal, but gave no provisions for enforcement.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
U.S. plan to help Germany pay WWI reparations
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EUROPE GERMANY
$400 - U.S. plan to help Germany pay WWI reparations
What is the Dawes Plan of 1924?
Scandal during the Harding Administration; oil company
bribes for land
$500 - Scandal during the Harding Administration; oil company bribes for land
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This happened on “Black Tuesday”, October 29, 1929
$100 - This happened on “Black Tuesday”, October 29, 1929
What is the crash of the NYC stock market?
Shanty towns named after the president who was blamed for the
depression
$300 - Shanty towns named after the president who was blamed for the depression
What are Hoovervilles?
Created by Herbert Hoover, provided emergency loans to
banks, railroads, financial institutions
$400 - Created by Herbert Hoover, provided emergency loans to banks, railroads, financial
institutions
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
Created the highest protective tariff in peacetime; failed to improve the economy after the stock market crash
$500 - Created the highest protective tariff in peacetime; failed to improve the economy
after the stock market crash
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930?
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to help America ascend from the Great
Depression
$100 - Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to help America ascend from the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
WWI veterans that led protest and rallies against Hoover; gained public sympathy when Hoover ordered the
Army to end their protests.
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What is the Bonus Army?
Radio addresses FDR made to the public
$200 - Radio addresses FDR made to the public
What are fireside chats?
Revolutionary New Deal program that established hydroelectric power
in Tennessee
$300 - Revolutionary New Deal program that established hydroelectric power in
Tennessee
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
New Deal act that boosted the growth of labor unions
$400 - New Deal act that boosted the growth of labor unions
What is the Wagner Act?
Supreme Court case that declared some New Deal policies
unconstitutional
$500 - Supreme Court case that declared some New Deal policies unconstitutional
What is Schechter v. United States/Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?
Commission created to regulate and oversee the stock market
$400 - Commission created to regulate and oversee the stock market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
Novel written by John Steinbeck, reflected the
1930’s Dust Bowl
$100 - Novel written by John Steinbeck, reflected the 1930’s Dust Bowl
What is Grapes of Wrath?
New Deal act that provided unemployment insurance and financial assistance for seniors
$200 - New Deal act that provided unemployment insurance and financial
assistance for seniors
What is the Social Security Act?
FDR’s actions towards this branch of the federal government was not supported by the
public and labeled him a “dictator.”
$300 - FDR’s actions towards this branch of the federal government was not supported by the public
and labeled him a “dictator.”
What is “court packing”?
The book written by Machiavelli that advised rulers on how to gain and
maintain power.
What is The Prince?
American author; voice for the “Lost Generation”, wrote The Sun Also Rises
and Farewell to Arms
$500 - American author; voice for the “Lost Generation”, wrote The Sun Also Rises and
Farewell to Arms
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Final Jeopardy
What were three impacts of the New Deal on the U.S.?
Federal gov’t becomes the largest employer.Federal gov’t becomes much larger.
Stimulated the U.S. economy.Increased government intervention /deficit
spending.Social reform – welfare state (U.S. expected to
play a role in financial crises.)