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AP US History Key Terms Unit 9
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11th Grade
11/29/2011

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Flappers
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a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner.
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FDIC
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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CCC
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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SEC
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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WPA
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Works Progress Administrations
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Alphabet Agencies
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100 offices were created during Roosevelt's terms of office as part of the New Deal, and "even the Comptroller-General of the United States
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Tea Pot Dome Scandal
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a bribery incident that took place in the United States in 1922–23, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding
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Prohibition
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the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, sale, and consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages
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New Deal
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a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936
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Harlem Renaissance
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a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s
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TVA
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federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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federal statute of the United States. The FLSA established a national minimum wage,[3] guaranteed 'time-and-a-half' for overtime in certain jobs,[4] and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor," a term that is defined in the statute
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Grapes of Wrath
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a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other "Okies", they sought jobs, land, dignity and a future
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Huey Long
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he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 and allegedly planned to mount his own presidential bid for 1936.
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Volstead Act
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the enabling legislation for the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States
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Wagner Act
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a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions (also known as trade unions), engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands
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Fireside Chat
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a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944
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Scopes Trial
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a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach evolution
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Court Packing Bill
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a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that had been previously ruled unconstitutional
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Speakeasies
Definition
an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages
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Charles Coughlin
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a controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as more than thirty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s
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Hundred Days
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a failed 104-day national cultural, political and educational reform movement from 11 June to 21 September 1898 in late Qing Dynasty China
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Ernest Hemingway
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an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are classics of American literature
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A. Philip Randolph
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a leader in the African American civil-rights movement and the American labor movement. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly Negro labor union
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Marcus Garvey
Definition
a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
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Fundamentalism
Definition
strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology
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Dust Bowl
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a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent wind erosion.
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Bonus Army
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the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates
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Charles Lindbergh
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an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Hoovervilles
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the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after the President of the United States at the time, Herbert Hoover, because he allegedly let the nation slide into depression. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927.
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Lost Generation
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a term used to refer to the generation, actually a cohort, that came of age during, and fought in World War I
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Black Tuesday
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also known as the Great Crash, and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout.[1] The crash signaled the beginning of the 12-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries[2] and that did not end in the United States until the onset of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941.
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Okies
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originally denoting a resident or native of Oklahoma
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Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act
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an act, sponsored by United States Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley, and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels
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