20s, 30s And GD Test Flashcards
Teapot dome scandal
When oil field on public land were loaned to private oil companies for a kickback, this scandal erupted
19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote; women first voted in Wyoming
NAACP
National association for the advancement of colored people
Sacco-Vanzetti
Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murdering 2 men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the men were executed on August 23, 1927
Which of the two Italian immigrants made the speech
Vanzetti
Japan
Our relations with this country had much tension in the 1920s and the 1930s. US had strict immigration policies in relation to this country, and this country began to build up it’s military
Red scare
A time when Americans greatly feared communism
Immigration
Moving from one place to another
Calvin Coolidge
This Vermonter became president win Warren Harding dies suddenly. This man believed in the hands of government in his most famous for being quiet and often “silent” on important issues
Quota
A maximum number of quantity that is permitted or needed 
Warren Harding
A president whose administration was racked with scandal he died in office
Quota act/national origins act
A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national grid is that blanket play discriminated against immigrants from the southern Eastern European virtual exclude agent the policies in the bags until the 1960s
Communism
A form of governmentOriginally started to make peoples economic lives more equal. It promoted that everything should be owned by the
People. It also outlawed religion which is very frightening for a country that was founded for reelection.
Phillipenes
A territory of the US during 1920s, lots of immigrants to US
Kkk
Group started by Nathan Bedford forest after civil war. This group hates, still hates blacks, Jews, Catholics, homosexuals, etc. Every that isn’t white and prostent
Scott Fitzgerald
Wrote the Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, the Beautiful and Damned, and Tender is the Night. Is stormy marriage to Zelda is almost as interesting/famous as his writing calm he was one of the jazz age authors
Amelia Earhart
First women to fly across atlantic
Herbert hoover
President who unsuccessfully tried to fix the great depression through volunteer effort and hopes that it would recover through free market economics
Bootlegger
Someone who has made alcohol illegally and or smuggled it for a profit
Babe Ruth
The Bambino and The sultan of swat. American Major League Baseball player from 1914-1935. Braves and yankees.
Prohibition
Time period where drinking, making, and selling alcohol was illegal
3 great jazz musicians
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Bassie
Speakeasies
Place where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed illegally during Prohbition
Scab
a worker who replaces a striking worker, I can be a dangerous position to be in
Charles Lindbergh
First Transatlantic flight; his baby was kidnapped and murdered in 1932 in NJ
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Kidnapped Charles Linderberghs baby in 1932
Strike
To stop working as a collective form of protest against an employer, often to achieve a specific arm
Vaudeville
A type of entertainment popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s consisting of a variety of singing, dancing, and comic acts
Jazz
Popular music that originated along black people in New Orleans in late 1800s
Black list
A list of people or groups were under suspicion or excluded from something
Flappers
Young women of the 1920s, charleston dance, bobs, short dresses
Spirit of St. Louis
Lindberghs plane,its hangs in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
Ernest Hemingway
Wrote Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and old man of the sea. Loved hunting, suffered from depression, and committed suicide, 1 of americas greatest authors
18th amendment
Prohibition
Yellow dog contract
Agreement between employee and employer that the employee wont be in a labor union
Social security
Government program that provides economic security to people who are retired unemployed or unable to work. Established in 1935, funds come from employees and employers
Dust bowl
Time period marked by drought, wind, caused by destruction of American prairie grasses and a change in weather patterns
20th amendment
States that the term commence t for congress is Jan 3rd and for the president its Jan 20th
Fireside chats
A series of 30 evening radio speeches given by the US president, FDR between 1933 and 1944
Black Tuesday
October 29th, 1929
Black Thursday
October 24th 1929
Lame duck
elected officeholder left seemingly powerless after successors been elected but not yet taken office
Civil rights
Everyone has the same rights
Soup kitchens
Serves people free meals
21st amendment
Repeals 18th amendment
The new deal
The policies of social and economic reform introduced in the US in the 1930s under presidency of FDR
Great Depression
Most unhealthy economic time period in American history
Breadlines
Line of people waiting for handouts of free food
22nd amendment
Limits presidency to 2 terms
3 Rs
Relief, recovery, reform
Boxing person
Jack Dempsey, set boxing records
Black baseball players
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson
Football person
Red Grange, 4 touch downs in 12 minutes
Baseball person
Babe Ruth
Relief
Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration
Recovery
“Pump priming” temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand
Reform
Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters
2 examples of relief
Bank holiday
Emergency banking act
2 examples of recovery
Agriculture adjustment act (AAA)
National industrial recovery act (NIRA)
2 examples of reform
Securities and exchange commission
Federal deposit insurance corporation
Bank holiday
Ex. Of relief- declared so that panic would be stopped
Emergency banking act
Ex. Of relief-Close the insolvent banks and only reopen the solvent ones
Agriculture adjustment act
Ex of recovery-Text food processors and gave the money directly to farmers payments or not growing food. This decreased supply s price would go up
National industrial recovery act
Ex of recovery-Created national recovery administration, a consortium of businesses organized by the gov, given the power to set rules for the economy, members of NRA displayed a blue eagle
Securities and exchange commission
Ex of reform- Permanent agency set up to monitor stock market activity and ensure that no fraud or insider trading was taking place
Federal deposit insurance corporation
Ex of reform – permanent agency designed to ensure depositors money in savings banks. Originally insured up to $5000 per depositor today it has increased to $100,000
