1920s Vocab Flashcards
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Teapot Dome
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- bribery incident→ took place in 1922-1923 (pres. Warren G. Harding)
- secretary of the Interior ALbert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves @ Teapot Dome to private oil companies without competitive bidding + @ low rates
- leases became subject of a sensational investigation → Fall convicted of accepting bribes from oil companies
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Bureau of the Budjet
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- established by the Budjet and Accounting Act
- reviews funding requests from government departments and assist the president in formulating the budget
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Open Shop
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- a company whose workers are hired without regard to their membership in a labor union
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Welfare Capitalism
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- an approach to labor relations in which companies met some of their workers needs without prompting by unions
- prevented strikes + kept productivity high
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Consumerism
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- concentrated on producing and distributing goods for a market which must be constatntly enlarged
- increased focus on purchasing goods for personal use
- protection/ promotion of consumer interests
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Jazz Age
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- 1920s
- popular rise of new American music / culture → jazz
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Hollywood
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- by the early 1920s, Hollywood had become the world’s first film capital
- produces virtually all films show in US + recieved 80 percent of revenue from films shown abroad
- became a viewing for propaganda
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Popular Heroes
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- INSTEAD of popular politicians (FDR/Wilson), new popular heroes were film + radio heroes → mone stars
- athletes grew a wide audience
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Lost Generation
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- generation of Americans who came of age during WW1 → popularized by author Ernest Hemingway
- usually used to describe a group of artists / writers who were the brightest _ most flowering of American genius
- ALSO: used to describe a group of writers who ejected American post WW1 ideals (F. Scott Fitzgerals, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein)
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Art Deco
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- promidant decorative art style of the 20s + 30s
- characterides by precise + boldly delimeated geometric shapes + strong colors
- used most notably in household objects + architecture
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Bolshevik Revolution
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- overthrow of Russia’s Provisional Government in fall 1917 by Lenin + Bolshevic forces made possible by the government’s continuing defeat in the war, its failure to bring political reforms + a further decline in the conditions of everyday life.
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Red Scare
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- period during early 20th century during which Americans grew afraid of a Communist takeover caused by the Russian Revolution
- radicals + foreigners were targeted
- also feared: socialists, anarchists, + other dissidents
- innocent people were jailed for expressing their views / civil liberties ignored / many Americans feared a Bolshevik-style Revolution
- in early 20s: the fear simply dissipated
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Criminal Syndicalism
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- laws passed by many states during the Red Scare
- outlawed the mere advocacy of violence to secure social change
- stump speakers for the international workers of the World were special targets
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American Plan
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- term that some employers usedin 1920s to describe their policy of refusing to negotiate w/ unions
- demonstrated Caissez-Faire economics
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Ku Klux Klan
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- reemerged ex pressing extreme nativism
- strong in midwest + the south
- hostile against: blacks, catholics, Jews, foreginers, + suspected Communists
- used modern advertising techniqujes to grow to 5 million members by ‘25
- support: lower/middle class white Protestants in small cities + towns
- applied vigilante justice, burned crosses, punish victims w/ whips + hangman’s loose
- KKK declined when the leader of Indiana’s klan was convicted of murder
