30 Flashcards
Automobile Industry
Created millions of jobs and hurt the Railroad Industry. Raised the standard of living, let suburbs spread out, and made women less dependent on men.
Airplane
Gasoline engines let airplanes be made.
Private companies started operating airplanes after its success in WWI.
1903 - Wrights’ first flight
1927 - Lindberg was the first solo flight across the Atlantic
Motion Picture
Used for anti-German propaganda during WWI.
1903 - The Great Train Robbery, the first story released.
Credit Card Debt
Credit became popular after the war which increased personal debt. The credit structure made the economy vulnerable.
Modernists
Believed God was good and the universe was friendly, gained ground on Fundamentalists.
Flappers
Young women in the 1920s hated “traditional behaviors” and so they wore short skirts, drank, drove, and smoked.
UNIA
Founded by Garvey, it promoted the resettlement of black people in Africa. Sponsored stores to keep black people’s dollars in their pockets.
Red Scare
Suspicions and fear of Russia resulted in people’s whose Americanism was in question. Striking and unions were Un-American.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Convicted of murder, the judge and jury were prejudiced against them because they were:
- Italian
- Atheist
- Anarchist
- Draft Dodger
KKK
Grew in the early 1920s because of growing intolerance and prejudice, most popular in MW and S. Pro Anglo-Saxon, “Native” American, and Protestant.
Fell apart after embezzling was discovered.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Limit on Europeans who could immigrate to the US each year. Set as 3% of the Europeans who lived in the US since 1910.
Immigration Act of 1924
Ended Unrestricted immigration, replaced the Quota Act, reduced percent to 2%, and banned Japanese immigration. Canadians and Latin Americans were exempt because it was easy to deport them.
Prohibition
White S didn’t want black people to have alcohol and W associated it with crime. Didn’t work due to low number of enforcement officials and it caused bank savings to increase.
Lindbergh Law in 1932
Passed after Lindbergh’s son was kidnapped by gangsters and killed, made interstate abduction punishable by death in certain circumstances.
Chicago Gangs
Illegal booze market caused gangs to form but they eventually moved on to other profitable illicit activities.
Darwinism and Monkeys
Fundamentalists thought it was destroying faith and contributing to the youth’s moral breakdown. Scopes indicted in TN for teaching it and had to pay $100.
Modernism
1920s philosophical movement questioning social conventions and created a lot of writers.
Harlem Renaissance
Black cultural movement that grew from Harlem Architecture, also became popular as materialism and functionalism grew.
Andrew Mellon
Secretary of Treasury in 1921.
Helped create tax reductions to help rich people, shifting the burden to the middle class. Believed that taxes forced them to invest in tax-exempt securities which hurt business.
Reduced national debt by $10 M.
President Harding
He was unable to detect corruption in his staff and hated hurting people’s feelings or saying no.
Senator Fall - Secretary of Interior and anti-conservationist
H Daughtery - Attorney General and Crooks
Adkins v Children’s Hospital (1923)
Ruled that the 19th Amend made women legally equal to men but NOT deserving of special protection in the workplace.
Industrialists
Wanted the government to stop legislating businesses and help them make profit.
Convinced the government to release its control on the economy during WWI.
Labor struggled w/o friendly government support, a lot of strikes and wage cuts.
Esch-Cummins Transportation Act of 1920
Returned railroads to private management and pledged ICC to guarantee profitability.
ICC
Interstate Commerce Commission, led by men who were sympathetic to managers of railroads.
La Follette Seaman’s Act of 1915
Improving sailors’ working conditions but made it harder to compete with foreigners who treated their crews poorly, economically hurt the shipping industry.
