Unit 4 Study Guide
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of robbery and
murder.
To expand its membership in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan engaged in blaming national
problems on immigrants, playing on people’s fears of political radicals, and allowing
members to profit from recruiting new members
The immigration policies of the 1920s limited immigration from Italy, Japan, and
England.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American
people from political radicals.
During the 1920s, union membership dropped considerably.
The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was for carrying mail.
The main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920s was the automobile.
The Teapot Dome scandal centered around oil-rich lands.
The Fordney-McCumber Tariff was meant to raise taxes on goods entering the United
States
To protect their own interests, employees often accused striking workers of being
Communists.
It was difficult to enforce the laws governing prohibition because
o Many people were determined to break the laws
o Insufficient funds were provided to pay for enforcement
o Many law enforcement officials took bribes from smugglers and
bootleggers
To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden nightclubs known
as speakeasies
To Harlem Renaissance refers to a celebration of African American culture in
literature and art
John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of
evolution
Fundamentalists believed that the Bible should be taken literally
“Double standard” refers to stricter social and moral standards for women than
for men in the 1920s
F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the Jazz Age
Charles Lindbergh was famous as a pilot
The NAACP fought for legislation to protect African Americans, worked with antilynching organizations, and published The Crisis
Jazz music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such
musicians as Louis Armstrong
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Farmers’ debts increased during the 1920s
Causes of the Great Depression are: tariffs on foreign goods, the availability of easy
credit, and a crisis in the farm sector
Causes of the Dust Bowl are: drought, high winds, and overproduction of crops
President Hoover tried to help the economy after the stock market crash by asking
businesses not to lay off employees
World War I veterans and their families made up the Bonus Army that marched on
Washington
Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt were the candidates that ran for president in
1932
Buying stock on margin is borrowing money to help pay for the stock
Effects of the Great Depression are: many children had a poor diet, many families
became homeless, and many men became unemployed
Hoboes is the name given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for
work
Direct Relief is a government system for giving payments or food to the poor
The first major action Roosevelt took as president was that he closed all of the nation’s
banks and ordered inspections
The first woman to ever serve in the cabinet was Frances Perkins
The goal of the New Deal was to regulate the stock market
Works Progress Administration was most directly responsible for creating new jobs and
putting people to work.
The main objective of the Agricultural Adjustment Act was to raise prices of farm
products
The National Industrial Recovery Act of the New Deal legislation was ruled
unconstitutional by the Supreme Court,
Eleanor Roosevelt was an important advisor on domestic policy in the Roosevelt
administration.
The national debt was reached a new high during Roosevelt’s first term as president.
The reorganization of the Supreme Court was an idea that Roosevelt had that failed.
John Steinbeck wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath about the grim lives of Oklahomans
fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression
How the Great Depression affected the daily lives of average Americans: people lost jobs
and spent years looking for new ones, lost homes and farms, people slept in parks, alleys,
and make shift shacks, scrounged for food, stood in bread lines, and ate at soup kitchens,
some families grew closer, some stressed, families worked together to share what they
had, women canned food for families and sewed clothes, children were malnourished, did
not go to school because some had closed, went to work or became hoboes, minorities
had increased incidents of racial hostility and violence