Social Studies Chapter 8

Womens right to vote.

Brought an end to the Prohibition era.

Oil leases granted by government official without competitive bidding.

Anti catholic, jew, and black, organization.

Improper farming techniques led to valueable topsoil being blown away. Followed by years of drought and wind storms.

Organization that defends and protects the individual rights of people.

Nations’s quietest president who brought trust back to the president’s office.

President when stock market crashed.

Inventor of assembly line which made cars more affordable.

Week long riot where dozens died and hundreds were injured. One of the worst racial injustices of the time period.

Economic system where businesses, goods, and services are controlled by private owners or corporations rather than the government.

Notorius crime boss, who made 60 milllion in a year from bootlegging liquor.

FIrst commercial use of an airplpane was carrying U.S. mail.

Widespread fear in 1919 1920 that the US government would be overthrown by communists.

Aviation pioneer who set many flying records.

An attempt to outlaw war and prevent the U.S. from joining another war.

• Signaled our contries return to isolationism and raised tariffs on imported goods.

Young women who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, and listened to jazz. Showing their disapproval of normal women behavior.

Closed banks and decided on their finacial health.

Provided deposit issuance to depositors

Names given to conservative members of U.S. supreme court.

Derogatory name given to towns in bad condition.

Provided jobs for people on relief during the Depression.

Speeches Roosevelt gave to public displaying optimism over domestic and global difficulties.

FDR’s Secretary of Labor.

Stock market crashed, banks failed, people spent less, businesses failed, unemployment rose.

There were more jobs in urban cities than in rural areas in the south. KKK was another reason.

They neglected many of them.

Relief, recovery, and reform.

He installed hope in public and lessened fear.