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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.)