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1920s economy (labor unions)
Strikes and labor unions evovled. Famous strikes included General strike of all workers in Seattle, and the strike of the entire American steel industry. -
1920s Literature The age of Innonce
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. -
1920s literature The Great Impersonation
The Great Impersonation is a mystery novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim and published in 1920. German Leopold von Ragastein meets his doppelganger, Englishman Everard Dominey, in Africa, -
1920s ecomomy ( Credit)
The sense of buy now pay later began. Many people began tp rack up credit debt. -
Hoovervilles
camps built outside of major cities by people who had lost their homes during the great depression called ________ because the people blamed pre. hoover foe their situition -
1920s African American The Great Migration
The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1970, had a huge impact on urban life in the United States. -
Harlem Renassionce
cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s -
1920s literature Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922 -
1920s literture The sun also rises
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. -
1920s economy (Great crash)
Stock market crashes and leaves many jobless, and sends america in to the great depression. -
Stock market crash
n 1929, the stock market crashed and caused a world wide Depression. As early as March the stock market had mini-crashes, signaling something was seriously wrong. In October 1929, on Black Friday it crashed. The Thursday before 12 mil. stocks had changed hands. The full devestation was not fully realized until the following Tuesday. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Hired people to build dams to prevent flooding and solid electricity -
Works Progress Administration (WPA
Employed 85 million people in construction and other jobs. Established under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. -
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Purpose was to provide government subsidies to farmers to decrease crop production, getting rid of the crop surplus, therefore raising prices for crops -
National Recovery Act (NRA)
Passed in 1933 to authorize the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and stimulate economic recovery. It also established a national public works program known as the Public Works Administration (PWA, not to be confused with the WPA of 1935). The National Recovery Administration (NRA) portion was widely hailed in 1933 but by 1934 business' opinion of the act had soured. By March 1934 the "NIRA was engaged chiefly in drawing up these industrial codes -
Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
Organized to utilize the nation's unemployed youth by building roads, planting trees and improving parks. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) preserves and promotes public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions for at least $250,000. Created by the Glass Steagall Banking Reform Act. -
Social Security Act of 1935
Permanent agency designed to ensure that the older segment of society always would have enough money to survive. Old age benefits. -
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. As our nation's securities exchanges mature into global for-profit competitors, there is even greater need for sound market regulation. -
Emergency Banking Act
Shut down of the nations banks, which allowed the government to examine all banks and allow those that were financially sound to open back up. Roosevelt wanted this done in order rebuild confidence in the nation's banking system. -
Federal Securities Act (FSA)
Requires corporations to provide all information on stocks. Securities and Exchange. -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Employed 4 million people for 15 dollars a week. Construction and repair jobs. Provided temporary employment. -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
An attempt by Franklin Roosevelt under his New Deal to provide recovery and relief from the Depression. This was the first of his major relief operations. It provided state assistance for the unemployed and their families. This program provided work for over 20 million people. FERA's main goal was alleviating household unemployment by creating new unskilled jobs in local and state government.
