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Roosevelt’s New Deal almost destroyed the Democratic Party.  The Democrats would not gain control of the White House again until the 1960s.

The new technologies in agriculture, like new tractors powered by a combustion engine, increased productivity.  In fact, it increased it so greatly that surplus outpaced the demand.

This program established a system of work relief for the unemployed.  It was responsible for building or renovating 110,000 public buildings and constructing over 500,000 miles of road.

The Tennessee Valley Authority was one of the largest experiments in government-funded public works and regional planning in American history to that point.  But never before had it underaken a project of such great scope, and never before had it maintained such close control and ownership over the public works it helped create.

The goals of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) included all the following except ___________.

A region that stretched north from Texas into the Dakotas and experienced a decade-long drought that began in 1930.  It turned what had once been fertile farmland into a desert.

In the 1920s almost all homes now had a radio.  The radio provided ______________.

A  modern woman whose liberated lifestyle found expression in dress, hairstyle, speech, and behavior.

Roosevelt’s attempt to appoint new, liberal Supreme Court Justices and change the ideological balance of the Court.

A group of artists who isolated themselves from society rather than influence or reform society  became known as the Lost Generation.  Writers of this era included T.S. Elliott, Gertrude Stein, and William Faulkner.