http://www.flashcardexchange.com/tag/amhs www.flashcardexchange.com: amhs Flashcards en-us Sun, 27 May 2012 06:19:53 PDT Sun, 27 May 2012 06:19:53 PDT support@flashcardexchange.com 720 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/2151428 vocabulary words for all of unit 3 plus some extra 2012-04-04 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/2151428 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/777951 flashies 2009-03-25 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/777951 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/777952 flashies 2009-03-25 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/777952 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/777958 flashies 2009-03-25 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/777958 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/775545 Flashcards from Mr. Arnolds APUSH class 2009-03-22 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/775545 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/769578 . 2009-03-11 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/769578 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765233 Mr. Arnold's vocab list 2009-03-04 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765233 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765249 Booms and Busts- Term for how capitalist economies fluctuate between good and bad times Recession- An economic slowdown in which less is bought & produced and people lose jobs Depression- An economic reversal in which much less is bought & produced and many lose jobs Great Depression- America’s worst depression which began in 1929 and ended in the 1940s Margin Buying- Buying stocks with a small down payment and financing the balance with a broker loan “Black Thursday”- Oct 24, 1929 stock market crash “Black Tuesday”- Oct 29, 1929 stock market crash Great Crash- Term for stock market crash in Oct 1929 Wall Street- Area in NY city where stocks are traded Bank Run- Term for when depositors try to withdraw all their money from their bank, the bank goes bankrupt, and depositors lose their money Discount Rate- The interest rate on loans charged by the Federal Reserve Bank to member banks Consumer Price Index- a.k.a. CPI. A gauge of the price of consumer goods Shantytowns- a..k.a. Hoovervilles. Makeshift “towns” of clapboard thrown up by displaced people during the Great Depression Breadlines- Lines of people waiting for a free meal outside charitable institutions during the Great Depression Downward Mobility- Idea that people could move down the economic ladder Relief- Term for financial help (from public or private sources) during the Great Depression US v. One Package of Jap Pes- 1936 Supreme Court decision allowing the dissemination of contraceptive information Margaret Sanger- Contraception/birth-control advocate & activist “Sisters of the Road”- Term for young female tramps National Youth Administration- a.k.a.NYA. It gave part-time employment to high school & college students during the depression “Oxford Pledge”- Anti-war pledge taken by many college students in the 1930s Student Strike against War- 1936 college student strike Hollywood- Center of the movie-making industry which produced many films that provided entertainment to Americans during the Great Depression Frank Capra- The most famous film director during the Great Depression Radio- Principle home entertainment during the Great Depression. It offered a variety of shows like the Lone Ranger, Superman & Dick Tracy & helped to popularize swing music Southern Tenant Farmers Union- a.k.a. STFU. 1934 coop farmers union for blacks and whites Scottsboro Case- 1931 AL case where 9 blacks were convicted of rape on inconsistent testimony of two women International Labor Defense- a.k.a. ILD. Communist-affiliated labor organization Dust Bowl- Great Plains drought and over production-induced ecological disaster of the 1930s Okies- Term for people who fled the Dust Bowl for agricultural jobs in CA whose story was told in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath (1939) Cesar Chavez- Mexican American farm labor activist Bert Corona- Mexican American industrial labor activist Tydings-McDuffie Act- 1934 law that gave the Philippines independence and limited Filipino immigration Agricultural Marketing Act- 1929 Hoover law to help stabilize agricultural prices Glass-Steagall Banking Act- 1932 Hoover law to help prop up failing banks with Federal Reserve notes Reconstruction Finance Corp- a.k.a. RFC. 1932 Hoover law to prop up failing businesses with gov’t loans Pump Priming- Term for Hoover-type laws during the Great Depression designed to get businesses back on their feet Farm Holiday Association- 1932 farmers organization designed to stop the decrease in farm prices by destroying produce Bonus Army- Group of WWI vets who marched on Washington DC in 1932 to get the bonuses promised to them in 1945 early. Hoover called out the army to disburse it & angered many who thought he was unsympathetic Election of 1932- Republican Hoover loses to Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) who promises America a New Deal to deal with the Great Depression 2009-03-04 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765249 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765258 adf 2009-03-04 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765258 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765263 sdf 2009-03-04 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/765263 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/699444 Mr; Arnold AP US History Auburn Mountainview High School 2008-11-15 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/699444 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/699451 AP US History Mr Arnold Auburn Mountainview High School 2008-11-15 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/699451 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/699452 AP US History Mr Arnold Auburn mountainview High School 2008-11-15 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/699452 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/320443 These are the vocab and terms we must know for our Fall Semester Final at Mitty. 2005-12-18 http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/320443