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| Granted women the right to vote | 19thAmendment |
| Getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash | “Buying on margin" |
| Wrote poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children’s books that promoted equality and condemned racism and injustice | Langston Hughes |
| Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the US and completely prohibited immigration from Asia | Immigration Act of 1924 |
| A fall in prices due to financial panic. | Stock Market Crash 1929 |
| Would be used to protect farmers by increasing tariff on foreign goods. | Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act |
| A dam that began construction under Hoover and was completed under FDR. Was used for irrigation, flood control and electricity. | Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) |
| 32nd President, served two terms and was an important figure during an economic crisis and world war. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Passed 77 laws during the first 100 days of FDR’s presidency. These laws were used to revive the economy. | “Hundred Days” |
| Would allow the treasure secretary to issue loans to banks that needed them. | Emergency Banking Act |
| Allowed the government to inspect banks. Banks usually were poor in management, had many errors when planning, and had very little capital. | Bank Holiday (1933) |
| This gave the President the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange | Glass-Steagall Banking Act |
| The government agency that insures customer deposits if a bank fails | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
| Paid farmers to reduce crops; funded by processing tax later declared unconstitutional | Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 (AAA) |
| Helped states to provide aid for the unemployed | Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |
| New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects | Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
| Created to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers. | National Recovery Act (NRA of NIRA) |
| Helped construction workers get jobs doing public projects (highways, bridges, sewers) | Public Works Administration (PWA) |
| Hires jobless people to build public buildings and parks. | Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
| A critic of the New Deal; created the National Union for Social Justice; wanted a monetary inflation and the nationalization of the banking system | Father Charles Coughlin |
| Created a tax on workers and employers. That money provided monthly pensions for retired people. | Social Security Act/Administration (SSA) |
| An independent federal agency that regulates interstate and international communication by radio, television, telephone, telegraph, cable, and satellite. | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) |
| A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics. | Hatch Act |
| Ends on January 20th and members of congress end January 3rd. | 20thAmendment Presidency |
| Made alcohol legal again | 21stAmendment |
| Was an economic depression | Recession of 1937 |
| Made it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms or other war machines. | Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, & 1937 |
| Tried to strengthen the relationship between the US and Central and south American countries. | Good Neighbor Policy |
| Ended the munitions embargo on a “cash and carry” basis. | Neutrality Act of 1939 |
| Set up a system that would allow the US to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed vital to the defense of the US. | Lend-Lease Act |
| Surprised military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the US against the naval base | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the west coast to relocation centers further inland. | Executive Order 9066 |
| Agency of the US government that supervised war production during WWII | War Production Board |
| State of the Union Address from Roosevelt | Four Freedoms Speech |
| An African-American civil rights organization in the US | Congress of Racial Equality |
| Individuals during the war who communicated secret messages through lesser-known languages such as Navajo. | Code talkers |
| A conference held in 1945 meant to plan postwar peace. | Potsdam Conference |
| Military strategy where soldiers would bypass enemy Japanese islands. | Island Hopping/Leapfrogging |
| A nuclear project utilized to construct the Atom bomb | Manhattan Project |
| Devastating nukes dropped on Japan in order to evoke surrender. | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 33rd President of the United States. | Harry S. Truman |
| World War 2 Supreme Commander who also served as the 34th President of the United States | General Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| World War 2 general who possessed a pivotal role in the pacific theater. | General Douglas MacArthur |
| A series of riots in 1943 that took place in Los Angeles as a response to violence against Mexicans. | Zoot Suit Riots |
| The supreme court’s decision to uphold Japanese exclusion. | Korematsu v. US |
| Conference where the defeat of Nazi Germany was planned | Yalta Conference |