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| Political movement favoring long-time Americans, as opposed to European and Asian immigrants. |
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| Keeping to yourself. (In a nation) |
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| Extreme socialist political movement, all things controlled by government. |
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| Generally anti-goverment people. |
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| Anarchists tried and executed for murder.Highly Questionable. |
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| System regulating the flow of immigrants into the United States limited to a certain number, or quota. |
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| American Labor Leader, Coal Mining. |
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| President elected following Taft. Crapy President at that, had affairs. |
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| U.S. Senator from Colorado, oppossed the New Deal. |
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| Tariff on foreign goods meant to protect American factories and farmers. |
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| Ohio Gang supporting and associating with president Harding. |
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| Scandal by President Harding to sell oil rich lands to companies when it was suppossed to be set aside for the Navy. |
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| Involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal. Secretary of the Interior |
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| President after Hardings death, Conservative Republican, laissez-faire style. |
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| Spreading out of a city into its suburbs and land surrounding the City. |
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| Buying in multi-sectional payments, basically it's the use of credit. |
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| Ban of Alchohol in the U.S. |
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| An illegal bar during the prohibition era. |
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| A person who illegaly hides and transports alchohol. |
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| Strict Adherance to traditional beliefs or ideas, the original concepts, in religion or government. |
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| Lawyer who defended John Scopes in the Tennesee evolution trial and was pitted against William Jenning Bryan. |
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| John T. Scopes vs. Tennessee over teaching evolution in schools. |
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| Used to describe a female dress style during the 1920s. Pretty attractive in my opinion. |
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| Flew across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. |
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| American Composer and Pianist. |
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| American Artist who lived for nearly 100 years. |
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| American Novelist and shortstory writer. |
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| American Novelist who coined the term "Jazz Age" for the 1920s. |
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| American Poet, known for her feminism and many love affairs. |
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| American Classics writer, commited suicide after being plagued with injury pains. |
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| American Author and Anthropologist |
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| African Civil rights activist, and known for the back to Africa movement. |
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| New York City cultural movement by African Americans. |
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| Worked in the Harlem Renaissance, did jazz poetry. |
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| Jazz trumpter and singer from New Orleans. |
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| Keeping the price of a good higher that its actual value. |
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| Loaning money for goods or services, or buying the services and paying in installments. |
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| American Politician defeated by Hebert Hoover in the 1928 presidential election. |
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| Dow Jones Industrial Average |
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| Stock index tracking the movements of the 30 largest publicaly owned corporations in America. |
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| Financial assumptions that cause decisions to be made that are not necessarily safe. |
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| Buying stocks with loaned money. |
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| October, 29 1929. The date of the begining of the stock market crash. |
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| Huge raise in Tariffs for imported goods, hurt the economy. |
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| Massive era of dust storms in the midwestern state in the 1930s. |
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| Failure of a President from 1929 to 1933. Didn't help easet the great depression. |
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| Dam built during the great depression, to provide water and power, buit from 1931 to 1936. |
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| Federal Home Loan Bank Act |
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| Financial Law passed by Hoover to lower the cost of home ownership. |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation, used by Hoover to restructure poor financial intitutions. |
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| Asembling of WW1 Army veterans to protest for their cash payments from their service. Mercilessly put down. |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Enough Said. |
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| Set of Economic programs and organizations set up by FDR to aid the Nation. |
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| Increased regulation of Wall Street to control speculation. |
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| Passed to regulate sales of securities by the SEC. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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| Paid farmers not to farm and end the farming surplus. |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| Provided work for unemployed, unmarried younger men, in which pay was sent back to their families. |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act |
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| Established national public works programs and allowed for monotoring of monopolies. |
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| Spending money you don't have, credit. |
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| Socialist. Almost challenged FDR before he was assasinated. |
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| Franklin Roosevelts wive, huge humanitarian. |
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| Works Progress Administration, provided jobs to millions of unkilled unemployed, including women. |
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| Limited Employers reaction to the forming of Unions and collective bargaining by employees. |
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| Signed by Roosevelt to provied money for those who are old, to provide "Social Security" |
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| First Female Secretary of Labor, reformed Labor, made huge strides in labor laws. |
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| American Classic Romance Novel. A very long film at that. |
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| Novel written depicting the hardship of Farmers during the dust bowl. |
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| Regulates bank deposits of up to $250,000, guarantees their safety. |
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| Investigates and remedies unfair labor practices. |
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| Provided utilities for rural areas. |
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