1920s Flashcards
Religion
Rising secularism in science
secularism in protestant religion
revivalism in fundementalism
fundamentalists
those who interpret the bible literally
christian business
Those who Jesus as the ultimate businessman
man nobody knows
Scopes Trial
1925
argument about whether or not evolution could be taught in schools in tennessee
Economy
rich got richer, poor stayed the same
only top 10% were making 5000/yr
1920
recession
1922
recovery
unemployment
3%
GNP
grew 3%
overall wage
increased
farmer
suffered because of overproduction
prices went down
no congress action
assembly line
took away personal job interest
labor union
membership fell from 3.4 mill to 1 mill
bc of rise in wages
social welfare capitalism
social welfare capitalism
leaders and employers taking care of their employees
fordney mccumber and smoot halley tariff
benefitted domestic trade
hurt farmers
national urban league
old aa population worried about how new influx of aa would represent them so they set up the NUL to prevent embarrassment
race riots
537 injured, 30 killed
chicago and st louis
20s were good for
industries sky scrapers movies makers radio makers car makers electricity producers
20s were bad for
farmers
southern workers
AAs
stock market
buying on credit popularized
low prices of stocks
speculative bubble- not representative of actual numbers
KKK
rebirth of the KKK in the 1920s
Harlem
accumulation of wealth by AA
looked like a white city
Africans Americans recruited for industrial jobs
caused labor competition between AA and white
urbanization
government corruption
racism against AAs (police)
politicians promising AA rights but lying to get into office
newspapers and AAs
spreading stereotypical reps of AAs
heavily doc.d any sort of violence
southern urbanization
moved up north for job
created racial tension between them and the AAs who had moved up north
Jim Crow Laws
not in effect in north, but basically still the same rules applied
black nationalism
marcus garvey
united negro improvement association
sexuality and gender in the 1920s
no change in regards to govt, but social attitude changed
more open interest in sex
promiscuity
led to rise of birth control
led to chance for women to decide whether or not they wanted to be a mother
Margaret Tsanger
flapper
short dresses, short hair, drank, red lipstick, smoked
right to divorce
marriage should not be bondage
homosexuality
looked down upon
compared to another race
openly gay people prevalent though (ie NYC)
“curse of God”
shepard towner act
birth control act
immigration during 1920s
slowing
anti-imm views- thought to lower standard of living
defining american identity
no real one american bc of extended immigration
non assimilation still takes away from the american identity- rude not to assimilate
emergency quota bill
national origins act (Johnson Reed Act)
1921
1924
only 3% of a country’s pop could come to america
suffering for things they were not guilty of
persecution
saccio and venzetti trial
arrested for roberry and murder
no connection to crime scene
socialist and anarchist and immigrants
executed
quotas
lowered of eastern and southern european
eugenics
science to perfect the american
dont allow ppl with defects to reproduce
limit the gene pool
sterilization
Buck Vs Bell
supreme court upheld the sterilization of mental institution patients
election of 1928
hoover vs Al Smith
laissez faire vs Progressive
hoover wins
al smith
new culture nyc antiprohibition big speaker catholic urban support
hoover
old culture
conservative
prohibition
