Term
|
Definition
A group of WWI veterans who wanted to collect on their pensions early. Hoover had the group removed from the capital with force and decimated his public image. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A "Hooverville" is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee .[1] |
|
|
Term
| Battle of Anacostia Flats |
|
Definition
Battle of Anacostia Flats was the name given to the time when Herbert Hoover ordered federal troops to forcibly remove the World War I veteran Bonus Army |
|
|
Term
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
(AAA) |
|
Definition
Created in 1933, would allocate acreage among individual farmers, encouraging them to take land out of production by paying them subsidies. Program increased farm income, on the whole large farmers benefited the most from the program. Small farmers went out of business and in droves moved to the cities overcrowding the already crowded urban areas. |
|
|
Term
| Tennessee Valley Authority |
|
Definition
| A New Deal program to create labor, primarily in building a series of dams in seven states to control floods, ease navigation and produce electricity. Helped bring underdeveloped parts of the nation into the modern era. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A term referring to the 3-month period in which Roosevelt sent 15 major requests to Congress and received back fifteen pieces of legislation. A few created agencies that have become a part of American life. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Shortly after the end of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the Red Scare took hold in the United States. A nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents suddenly grabbed the American psyche in 1919 following a series of anarchist bombings. The nation was gripped in fear. Innocent people were jailed for expressing their views, civil liberties were ignored, and many Americans feared that a Bolshevik-style revolution was at hand. frightened Americans, and spreading ideas of communism in America accelerated these fears. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Prohibited the manufacturing or sale of alcohol within the United States. (1917) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Establishes the direct election of United States Senators by popular vote. (1912) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Permits Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census. (1909) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Prohibits the denial of the right to vote based on sex. (1920) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Changes the date on which the terms of the President and Vice President (January 20) and Senators and Representatives (January 3) end and begin. (1932) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibits the transportation or importation into the United States of alcohol for delivery or use in violation of applicable laws. (1933) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A cause long championed by Female political groups like the Women's Christian Temperance Union in order to create a "pure" society. 18th Amendment was a great success for these groups and banned manufacturing of alcohol. Was later reinforced by the Volstead Act. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment, which established prohibition in the United States. The Anti-Saloon League's Wayne Wheeler conceived and drafted the bill, which was named for Andrew Volstead, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, who managed the legislation. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910.[2] Based on that formula, the number of new immigrants admitted fell from 805,228 in 1920 to 309,556 in 1921-22.[3] |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| The 1924 Immigration Act (National Origins Act or the Johnson-Reed Act) was the crowning achievement of nativists seeking to restrict immigration in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. Nativists used a variety of scare tactics including health and disability, race, and assimilability to argue for limiting immigration. Limited immigration to 2%. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
