Unit 4 Test ReviewBy Sarah Berni

During the Red Scare, there was widespread panic about what?Communism

What was the quota system designed to reduce?Immigration

Starting in the 1920’s, housing plans changed in order to include what?

Garages or Carports

Explain the Installment Plan.Buying something by putting money down and making monthly payments until it is paid off

Prohibition failed due to a lack of what?

Support, enforcement, money, resources…

Name one way people got around the Prohibition law.

Bootlegging, speakeasies, made their own, bought sacramental wine, organized crime, smuggling…

For what was John T. Scopes arrested?

Teaching evolution in schools

What does a flapper look like?Short died hair, short boy-but dress, little felt hats, beads and fringe…

For what was Charles Lindbergh famous?

First solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic

Who were F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway?

Famous 1920’s authors

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

A literary and artistic movement that focuses on African-American culture

Why did the farming industry suffer the most after the war?

They were overproducing

Why is October 29, 1929 significant to the Great Depression?

The day the stock market crashed

Why did so many banks fail during the 1930’s?

Stock market crash and bank runs

What is a shantytown?Towns of shacks where the homeless lived in anything they could find

Name one cause of the Dust Bowl.Drought, over-cropping, overgrazing, nothing to hold the soil down, wind

After the stock market crashed, who said, “Any lack of confidence in the economic future…is foolish”?

Herbert Hoover

What was Hoover’s most positive lasting legacy?

Boulder or Hoover Dam

The RFC was designed to provide emergency financing for what industries?

Banking, railroad and insurance

What happened to the Bonus Army?

They were gassed on Hoover’s orders

What is the New Deal?Roosevelt’s plan to solve the Great Depression

During fireside chats Roosevelt addressed the Americans through what medium?

Radio

The FSA was designed to do what job?

Make companies disclose full information about their stocks

What did the AAA pay farmers to do?

Destroy crops and kill pigs

Name one New Deal acronym that provided jobs to people.

CCC, NYA, WPA, CWA

What is deficit spending?When a government spends more money than it earns

The Wagner Act protects the rights of what group of people?

Workers

Name two groups of people for which the Social Security Act provides aid.

Unemployed, retired, disabled, needy families with children

In 1924 what did Native Americans finally receive?

Full citizenship

What did people use their radios for in the 1920’s and 1930’s?

Entertainment, news, sports, music, fireside chats

Who painted American Gothic?Grant Wood

The FDIC was created to insure what?

Bank accounts

What does the SEC do?Regulates the stock market

Name one way the New Deal impacted the environment.Planting trees, building fire lookouts, building hiking trails, soil conservation, overgrazing protection, national parks, pollution, flood prevention, hydroelectricity…

Explain one thing you learned during this unit that explains why America is what it is today.