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The Emergency Banking Act of 1933

Southern city where nine African American boys were falsely accused of raping two White women and sentenced to death; the extreme injustice of the trial, particularly given the age of the boys and the inadequacy of the testimony against them, garnered national and international attention

The term nativism refers to:

This New Deal Act provided money that went directly to states to infuse relief agencies with resources to help the nearly fifteen million unemployed.

Vice President who assumed the presidency in 1923 after the death of Warren G. Harding:

Which one of the following conditions did not contribute to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s?

This New Deal Act provided government jobs for young men aged fourteen to twenty-four where they would earn money by working on public projects, such planting trees and refurbishing historical sites and parks.

Key figure in the National Youth Administration (NYA) who became one of President Roosevelt’s foremost African American advisors.

In the 1920s, a young, modern woman who embraced the new morality and fashions of the Jazz Age was called a(n)

The central plan of the National Recovery Act (NRA) was to