8th grade ch 22- The Roaring Twenties Flashcards
post ww1 hardships2
- economic recession–>labor strikes
- fear of communists
warren harding2
- next president, republican
- promised a return to normalcy
albert b fall3
- harding’s friend
- received a big bribe
- first cabinet member ever sent to jail
calvin coolidge5
- vice president turned president after harding died
- very soft-spoken, honest
- helped restore public’s trust in government
- won reelection
- helped the 20’s “roar”
isolationism2
- wanting to not interfere with the issues of world affairs
- most americans wanted isolationism
disarmament2
- reduction or limitation of military armaments
- us encouraged other nations of disarmament
washington naval arms conference
treaty limiting the navies of the US, brit, france, italy, and japan
kellogg-briand pact2
- condemned military aggression and outlawed war
- ineffective because hand no punishment on a country that acted aggresively
coolidge and nicaragua and mexico4
- Coolidge believed that government had a right to intervene in foreign matters that affected US business
- sent troops to Nicaragua to protect business there
- next year: mexico planned to take over all foreign oil lands
- coolige managed to settle diplomatically
communism
economic and political system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party rules
US and soviet union3
- the bolshevik revolution made the soviet union: world’s first communist state
- US refused to grant it diplomatic recognition to weaken SU
- still, when famine hit russia in 1921, US sent aid
anarchists3
- people who oppose all organized government
- foreign born
- set off bombs to unite all foreigners
red scare
thousands of anarchists and communists/reds were hunted down and arrested or deported
sacco and vanzetti2
- charged with robbing and murdering two people in massachusetts
- prosecution focused on the fact that both defendants were foreigners
limiting immigration reasons
- culture of US would be overwhelmed by immigrants
- immigrants would compete for jobs
emergency immigration laws3
- 1921: limited the number of people admitted from eastern and souther europe
- 1924/1929:prohibited immigration from asia
- did not apply to people from americas (mexicans and canadians)
prohibition2
- total ban on alcoholic drinks (eighteenth amendment)
- way to conserve grains during war
bootleggers
liquor smugglers
speakeasies
illegal taverns that served liquor
fail of prohibition
- bootleggers from canada
- large towns had speakeasies
- more crime from gangs
- 21 amendment: ended prohibition
19th amendment
allowed women to vote, join political parties, and be elected to offices
flappers3
- young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thingking and acting
- wore bright makeup and short skirts, and had bobs
- became symbol of women in 20s
impact of automobile4
- became symbol of freedom/independence, and the 20s
- created new businesses
- made it easier for fams to move to suburbs
- encouraged tourism
impact of radio2
- leading supplier of entertainment
- unified the country with NBC
impact of movies4
- provided escape from everyday life
- grew hollywood
- first were silent, then led to talkie, then action
- led rise to celebrities
scopes trial4
- john scopes was a teacher who was accused of teaching the theory of evolution to his students
- many states passed laws that banned teaching the theory because it went against the church
- trail put modern urban americans against traditional rural americans
- scopes was eventually convicted
great migration4
- many blacks started to leave the south and move to bigger cities in the north
- settled into the few neighborhoods that allowed black residents
- lots of racial tension led to riots and violence
- KKK came back for a bit
marcus garvey3
- jamaican immigrant who spoke for universal negro improvement association
- promoted black pride and unity
- encouraged people to move back to africa
fads of the 20s4
- dancing:charleston, lindy hop etc
- flagpole setting: who could sit the longest on top of a flagpole
- dance marathon
- mah-johngg: chinese game
heroes of the 20s2
- sports heroes: babe ruth, red grange, jack dempsey etc
- charles lindbergh: lucky lindy, first to fly nonstop across the atlantic
jazz5
- combined rhythms from west africa and the caribbean, work chants and spirituals from the rural south, and harmonies from europe into an original new style of music
- lots of black people
- spread with the help of radio
- 20s was called jazz age
- not liked by older people
f scott fitzgerald3
- wrote great gatsby
- critic of what he saw as the emptiness of rich people’s lives
- seemed fascinated and disgusted by people
ernest hemingway2
- noted for his short direct sentences using everyday language
- wrote the sun also rises
sinclair lewis
reacted against what he saw as the hypocrisies of middle-class culture
harlem renaissance
lots of people in harlem new york reacted against the prejudice they faced through music, writing, and poetry
lanston hughes
was popular for his beautiful poems that had expressions of racial pride
james weldon johnson
combined poetry and politics by writing editorials in the black-owned newspaper
installment buying2
- buying on credit
- offered by businesses to encourage spending
changes in the industry3
- chain stores and mail order catalogs made it easier for people to buying goods
- more appliances were designed to appeal to the american homemaker
- high tariffs on imports kept out goods that might compete with domestic products
bull market
period of rising stock prices
buying on margin
borrowing money in order to buy stocks
signs of trouble2
- farmers: surplus of crops that are unable to sell, high debt
- workers: unemployment was high, didnt need skilled workers
election of 1928
- republican–herbert hoover: supported by rural residents and protestants, pledged to continue prosperity
- democrat–alfred e smith: supported by immigrants, catholics, and urban residents
- hoover won
main events8
- harding/coolidge(recession, labor strikes, scandals)
- red scare–>immigration
- prohibition
- new good culture (flappers, technology, scopes trial, great migration)
- jazz, literature, poetry
- industry growth, stock market boom
- signs of trouble (farmers, workers)
- election of 1928
