1920s Flashcards
What is demobilization
The standing down of a nations armed forces from a combat-ready status
What did WW1 lay the ground work for
Economic expansion
What did tariffs do
Created an economic boom in the us
What can from the economic boom
Cars, refrigerators, microwave, radios
What was a reason consumerism was pushed
Higher wages and credit purchasing
With prices being low…
Standard of living rose
Food was..
Plentiful and cheap
People owned house…
Through mortgages
Who was president
Warren G. Harding
1920s president=
Urged a return to normalcy
Who took over after Hardings death
Calvin Coolidge
Businesses can run with no government interference
Laissez-faire
Why did the Russians drop out of the war
A revolution
Who took control of Russia
Vladimir Lenin
What was Lenin’s group
The Bolsheviks
Who took over after Lenin
Joseph Stalin
What was the red scare
The fear that communism would spread to America
What did the media do with the news of communism
They sensationalized the story
What was a big event that had to do with the red scare
The Palmer raids
What were the Palmer raids
Bombs went off in several cities
What did Mitchell Palmer do
Tried to ideantify and root out the groups that posed a clear and present danger
What are the people called who want to overthrow the government
Subversives
Who was targeted?
Communist socialist anarchist
What happened on January 2, 1920
Federal agents in 33 cities arrested thousands of radicals WITH NO EVIDENCE. they were charged with anarchy
What happened on may 1, 1920 ( an annual socialist holiday)
Nothing lmao
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti
Two Italian immigrants arrested for murder (with like no evidence)
Nativism
A movement favoring native born Americans over immigrants
Patriotism
Many Americans believe that foreigners could never be fully loyal to the Us
Religion
Nativist who were Protestants did not trust Catholics, orthodox Christians, or Jews
Urban conditions
Americans blamed problems on immigrants
Red scare
Immigrants were believed to carry communist ideas with them
Women’s rights
19th amendment
Women’s suffrage is…
Wanting the right to vote
What was a well known conference for women’s rights
Seneca falls convention in new youk
Why weren’t women wanted to vote
It would make them too masculine, politics would dristract them, they were easily manipulated
Who was Susan B. Anthony
Led a group to Rochester New York so women could vote. She got arrested.
Susan B. Anthony and other formed what…
National Americans Women Suffrage (NAWSA)
Who took over the NAWSA committee that worked on congressional passage of the federal suffrage amendment
Alice Paul/ Lucy burns
What did they change it too?
Congressional union (cu)
What happened august 1920
The 19tg amendment was passed
Who revitalized the Ku klux klan
William j. Simmons
How many member were in the kkk from 1922-1924
100,000-4 mil
What was the new focus of the kkk
Vowed to defend their own white-Protestant culture against any group
What were most crimes against in early 1920
African Americans, Catholics, Jews, immigrants
Where was the biggest klan
Indiana
Quota-
Numerical limit imposed on immigrants representing certain ethnic groups or nations
National origins acts-
Reduced the amount of immigrants allowed in the previous quota
What was the movement that a lot of African Americans left the south to the north
The great migration
Why did they want to leave
Racism, employment, boll weevil, Jim Crow laws, war industries, immigration act, great Mississippi flood
Legal racial segregation in the south
Jim Crow laws
What legalized the Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
War industries
Created job openings for blacks
Immigration act of 1924
Put a halt to the flow of European immigrants to the emerging industrial centers of the northeast and Midwest
The great Mississippi flood
1927, displaced a lot of farmers and darn workers
Harlem renaissance
Harlem African American population grew from 50,000 in 1914 to 200000 in 1930
Another word for Harlem renaissance
Literary awakening
Who was James Weldon Johnson
He emerged as a leading writer of the Harlem group
What is NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people
Naacp was formed by who
1909 by Moore field stores, Mary white ovington, and W.E.B. du bois
Jazz age is also referred to what
The swing era
