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Politics Economics SocietyAfrican

AmericansWomen

This term means a fear of immigrants

and belief in the superiority of U.S. born Americans

Nativism

This new Deal reform agency

protected against bank

failures

FDIC (Federal Deposit

Insurance Corporation)

This federal program was designed to

bring Mexicans to work farms in the Southwest

Bracero program

Part of Truman’s

“Fair Deal” platform dealt

with what minority issue

Segregation or discrimination

Name of LBJ’s program that created Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start and other welfare programs to

help the poor

The Great Society

The crash of the stock market

was caused by speculation and ____________.

Buying on Margin

Reason the Hawley-Smoot

tariff is so historically important

Highest tariff rates in U.S.

history – slowed trade nearly to a

halt

FDR created many agencies to convert

the economy to wartime. This

process is called ______________.

Mobilization

This new technology helped create a national

culture, especially through

advertising.

Television

This government agency was

created to help with pollution

and waste issues.

EPA (Environmental

Protection Agency)

Name one of the entertainment mediums that

helped create a national culture

Radio or Movies

Geographic disaster that

contributed to the misery of the

Depression in the Great Plains

Dust Bowl

As in WW1, these provided a source of food for many

households.

Victory Gardens

Because of the Space Race and Arms race, these two subjects got

more emphasis in schools

Math and Science

The term rock-n-roll originated in

this city

Cleveland, Ohio

Civil rights organization that

used legal action to

achieve its goals

NAACP (National

Association for the

Advancement of Colored People

Unemployment for African Americans

reached this % during the

Depression

67%

What did the 2 “V”s in Double V

Campaign stand for?

Victory against Nazis in Europe

and victory against

discrimination and racism at home

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC believed

in this technique for achieving

civil rights

Passive resistance, non-

violent civil disobedience

Law that prohibited discrimination in

housing, education, employment, voting

and public accomodations

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Amendment that gave women the

right to vote

19th amendment

Why were married women fired during the

depression?

To make more jobs for men

Industry where most women

worked during WW2

Defense industries

Reason for feelings of

discontent by women during the years after WW2

Forced out of jobs and

encouraged to return to

homemaking

Organization created by middle

class white women to push for

equal rights

NOW (National Organization for

Women)