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The idea that the country would be safest and more prosperous by staying out of world affairs.
#betteroffalone |
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Fourteen countries, including the United States, agreed to outlaw war.
#14againstwar |
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American banks sent loans to Europe to help the Allied Powers repay debts and to help Germany pay their reparations to increase trade with the United States.
#loanforaloan |
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A culture that promotes spending money and buying products.
#buybuybuy |
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Widespread advertising that promoted consumerism
#seeitandneedit |
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Popular image of a woman show smoked, drank, and wore makeup and revealing clothing.
#youngandrebellious |
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Surge of black culture centered around literature, music, art, and racial pride.
#blackprideftw |
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A black nationalist that promoted the idea that blacks should go back to Africa
#back2africa |
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A law that deliberately favored immigrants from northern and western Europe over "undesirable" immigrants
#thosewhocancome |
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A biology teacher was tried illegally for teaching the theory of evolution in school
#whattoteach |
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Authors who were critical of the emerging American culture in the 1920s, where many were disillusioned by World War I and had lost faith in society.
#societyisruined |
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Clashed with modernism; promoting creationism and religion over evolution.
#bible4forever |
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Italian immigrants that were accused of robbery, murder and anarchy. They were convicted and executed for their crimes. Many claimed that the verdict was due to nativism.
#beinganimmigrantisacrime |
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Prohibited the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol.
#boobooze |
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The idea that Americans can take care of themselves without government help.
#standtogetherandthrive |
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The day when the stock market crashed. Investors panicked, stock values fell, and loan could not be repaid.
#allwentdark |
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Wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was very active and traveled the country. She met regularly with ordinary Americans and would report to FDR how the New Deal was working.
#wifeofgreatness |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's biggest political threat. He planned to challenged FDR in the Election of 1936 and made bold promises, campaigning that he would "make every man a king" by guaranteeing an income for all Americans.
#challengeFDR |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempted law to expand the Supreme Court from 9 to 15 justices and to force older, conservative justices to retire so he could appoint more liberal, pro-New Deal justices.
#newjustice |
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Area of the Great Plains that experienced erosion, drought, and dust storms that ruined agriculture.
#dirtandmisery |
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Created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to expand the role of the federal government to provide relief, recovery, and reform during the Great Depression.
#FDRtotherescue |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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Federal agency that insured the bank accounts of Americans, preventing future banks runs.
#staysafestayinsured |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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Federal agency that regulated the stock market to prevent over-speculation and fraud.
#lockedwithregulatedstock |
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| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
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Regulated business wages, hours of work, level of production, and prices to create more jobs.
#stablejobsmakestablelives |
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| Public Works Administration (PWA) |
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Paid Americans to work in urban public work projects, which helped to build roads, bridges, dams, schools, and other public infrastructure and buildings.
#publicworkforthepublic |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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Paid Americans to do rural environmental conservation work. It had Americans plant trees to prevent "Dust Bowl" erosion, build dams, fight forest fires, and build parks.
#workfortheenvironment |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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Paid Americans to build dams in and around Tennessee to provide electricity.
#damupTN |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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Largest New Deal agency, which created millions more public work jobs.
#jobsformillions |
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Law that provided financial benefits for many types of Americans.
#govtmoneyforall |
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| National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act |
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Law that greatly increased the power of labor unions, even for unskilled industrial workers.
#voiceforunions |
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Law that created working condition regulations for most businesses. It established a minimum wage, maximum work hours, overtime pay, and abolished child labor.
#workingconditionsfixed |
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Developed the moving assembly line, which broke production down into specialized tasks. It promoted mass production by making it make it more efficient and cheaper.
#producefastsellfaster |
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Refounded in 1915, targeting blacks and other groups they considered "un-American," including immigrants.
#defendtraditionthroughterror |
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Producing and smuggling illegal alcohol nationwide.
#illegalprofitbythebottle |
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Shantytowns built on public land by homeless Americans.
#nowherebutheretocallhome |
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Veterans that gathered in D.C., demanding immediate bonus payment that was promised to them from their service in World War I.
#stayuntilyoupay |
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