APUSH Chapter 25 Test Answers – Flashcards
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The Great Depression
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667, A long and horrible economic depression around the world from 1929-1940. Recovery was very difficult. Ended due to WWII.
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Stock Market Boom
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668, The time when it was very popular to buy stocks, especially by using credit.
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"Black Tuesday"
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668, (October 29, 1929) The day the stock market crashed which led to the Panic of 1929.
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Exacerbating Factors of the Great Depression
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668, A. Overproduction and Shifting Industries B. Bank Runs C. Ecological Destruction D. Fed Gov Action E. Stock Market Crash
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Banking Collapse
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671, Throughout the 1920s banks had invested people's money in the stock market. When the market crashed, they could not pay people their money back.
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Soup Kitchens
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672, Places that provided the unemployed with food for free during the Great Depression.
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"Dust Bowl"
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674, A section of the Great Plains which was over farmed and experienced a horrible drought in the 1930s. Farmers could not earn enough to survive and moved away.
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"Okies" and "Arkies"
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674, A nickname for people leaving Oklahoma, Arkansas, and the surrounding regions looking for work due to the Dust Bowl.
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Scottsboro Case
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675, A Supreme Court case involving the arrest of nine A-A teens for hopping of a train in Scottsboro, Alabama and acting as vagrants and two were accused of rape. They were convicted to death by an all white jury, but in Supreme Court they decided to set them free.
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NAACP's Changing Role
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675, The NAACP worked to break up racial barriers in labor unions so blacks could join.
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Japanese American Citizens League
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677, An organization founded in 1929 to protect the rights of Japanese Americans.
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Chicanos
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676, American citizens of Mexican ancestry.
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"Success Ethic"
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678, The concept that people are in control of their fate and will succeed if they show their talent.
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Walt Disney
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681, A man who opened an animation studio and ended up creating a film empire which gave people something to look to other than their own lives.
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Life Magazine
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681, A magazine full of photographs that launched in 1936 and soon had a huge audience. Known for articles on all types of topics from politics to entertainment.
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John Dos Passos
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681, A novelist who wrote about how WWI impacted society and art. He was disillusioned by postwar America.
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Frank Capra
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682, A director that liked traditional values and disliked the wealthy, which he criticized in his films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
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Spanish Civil War
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683, Civil war in Spain in which General Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government
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The Grapes of Wrath
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685, A novel by John Steinbeck about a family travelling to California during the dust bowl and what they encounter
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Southern Tenant Farmers Union
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684, A group of people who were mad about how the New Deal treated tenants and sharecroppers.
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Agricultural Marketing Act
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686, An act which formed the first big government program control crop prices. Had a Farm Board which made loans and set up corporations. Act did little to help farmers.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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686, An independent agency chartered by the Hoover Administration which gave over $2 billion to local and state governments. Tried to create a "trickle-down" effect.
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Farmers' Holiday Association
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687, An association created by angry farmers which supported withholding farm products from the market- strikes ended in failure.
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Bonus Army
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688, A group of WWI veterans who marched to Washington D.C. in 1932 to ask for their bonus payments and were attacked by troops under Douglas MacArthur, head of the army.
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1932 Election
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689, People blamed Hoover for Depression so Roosevelt won in a landslide. Changed the way Americans thought of federal government.
