1920+1930s💀😐😯🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱😵🙄 Flashcards
Spanish flu
Spanish (believed started Kansas) influenza- pandemic (disease that spreads across many nations….really started from hogs
•Last 9 months and killed 20 million worldwide
•US ½ million deaths
•Crime rate dropped
•Fines for sneezing/coughing in public
Williams Jennings Bryant
Prosecuting attorney at the scopes monkey trials
Clarence Darrow
Defending attorney at the scopes monkey trial
Lost generation
A group ex-patriot’s during the 1920´s
Prohibition
Outlawed alcohol
Speakeasy
A place where alcohol was sold illegally
Bootlegger
A person who smuggled alcohol into the US during prohibition
Red Scare
Fear of a revolution with the intent to make the US a communist contry
19th amendment
Granted women the right to vote
Sacco and Vanzetti
Two radical Italian immigrants who where controversially found guilty of murder
Fundamentalism
Taking the word of the Bible literally
Scopes trial
A case in 1925 in which the biology teacher teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution
Flapper
An young woman in the 1920s that embrace modern fashion and urban attitudes
Harlem Renaissance
The growth of African Americans arts
cotton Club
Famous jazz club located in Harlem where the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance often Played.
Emergency Quota act
Act by Congress that limited immigration
Teapot Dome Scandal
Albert Fall illegally rented out public oil reserves to companies
Kellogg-Briand Pact
15 nations agreed that all conflicts should be settled peacefully however it lacked the means to enforce
Hooverville
homes shelters built from Old boxes and other debris group together in pitiful “shanty towns”
1928 election
Herbert Hoover vs Alfred Smith
Langston Hughes
A famous African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Made poems like I, too, Sing America
Zora Neale Hurston
African American Writer during the Harlem Renaissance. Wrote dust tracks on a road
Created The FBI, Attornet Gernal for Hoover
Mitchell Palmer
Three most popular sports
Baseball, Boxing, football