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Unit #11 – Boom and Bust (1920s-1930s). Please copy the following words in your Social Studies Notebook:. 1) Sacco and Vanzetti Trial: Court case where two Italian immigrants were charged with treason and executed though the evidence against them was largely fabricated and circumstantial.
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Please copy the following words in your Social Studies Notebook: 1) Sacco and Vanzetti Trial: Court case where two Italian immigrants were charged with treason and executed though the evidence against them was largely fabricated and circumstantial. 2) Mass Production: Production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines.
Please copy the following words in your Social Studies Notebook: 3) Installment Buying: Method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments. 4) 18th Amendment: Constitutional amendment that banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States. 5) Bootlegger: One who sells illegal alcohol.
Please copy the following words in your Social Studies Notebook: 6) Buying on Margin: The purchase of stocks by paying a portion and “betting” that the stock will increase and pay for itself. 7) Great Depression: Period lasting from 1929-1945 in which the U.S. economy failed and unemployment soared. 8) Hooverville: Term used to describe makeshift shantytowns set up by homeless people during the Great Depression.
Please copy the following words in your Social Studies Notebook: 9) New Deal: Programs and legislation enacted by Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform. 10) Dust Bowl: Term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought.
Please copy the following words in your Social Studies Notebook: 11) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): Government agency that built dams in the Tennessee River Valley to control flooding an generate electric power. 12) Wagner Act: New Deal law that abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the right of employees to organize labor union, and gave workers the right to collective bargaining.
Please copy the following words in your Social Studies Notebook: 13) Welfare State: Government that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of the poor, elderly, sick, and unemployed. 14) “Fireside Chats”: Informal radio broadcast in which FDR explained issues and New Deal programs to average Americans.
