Chapters 31-35 Flashcards
What does the 18th Amendment prohibit?
- It prohibits the sale of alcohol
- It prohibits the manufacturing of alcohol
- It prohibits the distribution of alcohol
But they DO NOT ban the consumption of alcohol
Racketeers
These are the groups or organizations that do illegal activities.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti/Sacco-Vanzetti Case
- They were convicted of robbery and murder and sentenced to death.
- They were believed to be anarchists.
- They were also not given a fair trial as they were almost always going to be convicted regardless
- It represents how America is afraid of immigrants and doesn’t always treat them fairly.
Al Capone
- He is the most famous gangster in American History
- He runs the city of Chicago
- He is taken down because of tax evasion instead of his more heavier crimes of bootlegging and prostitution
- He spends his jail time in Alcatraz where he is a model citizen until he contracts syphilis and dies
Speakeasies
They are illegal or underground secret bars that begin to pop up
Bootlegging
- This is the illegal production and distribution of alcohol
- Called bootlegging because of how pirates used to put/hide alcohol in their peg legs.
Ku Klux Klan
- It’s a white terrorist group that originally went after blacks after the Civil War, and they will change to going after immigrants during the 1920’s.
- They are now against anyone and anything that doesn’t believe the same way they do.
Hiram Evans
- He is a major leader of the KKK during this time
- His title was the Grand Imperial Wizard
General Intelligence Division
- They help to hunt down communism using Palmer raids.
- They eventually become the FBI
21st Amendment (1933)
- This ends the prohibition
- It will repeal the 18th amendment and now make alcohol legal once again
A. Mitchell Palmer
He is a government official who is responsible for hunting communism.
United States President 1921-1923
- Warren Harding and he did not complete his term because he died of a heart attack. He was succeeded by Calvin Coolidge.
- He was a republican
United States President 1923-1929
- Calvin Coolidge served from 1923-1929. Started due to Harding’s death and then became president in his own right.
- He was a republican
United States President 1929-1932
- Herbert Hoover served from 1929-1932. He served one term.
- He was a republican
United States President 1945-1953
- Harry Truman was president from 1945-1953
- He was a democrat
United States President 1933-1945
- Franklin D. Roosevelt was president from 1933-1945 and he was the first and last president to serve 4 terms
- He was a democrat
What sport came about because of bootlegging and why?
- NASCAR
- Bootleggers had to pump up their cars to escape from cops
Andrew Mellon
He is the secretary of treasury whose ideas led to an economic boom but left unchecked will also lead to the Great Depression.
Fordism
An economic system based on mass production and mass consumption. Created by Henry Ford and his Ford Motor Company, which developed an assembly line system
Henry Ford
- He prefects the assembly line
- He will expand the car industry
What city will be propped up and become a big motor city?
Detroit which is a city in Michigan
Model T (automobile industry)
This is the first affordable car in American history
Flappers
- A 1920s woman who began to use fashion as their way of freedom.
- They had shorter everything; hair, necklines, dresses…
New Morality
As men come back from WW1 and women have begun to have more freedom, the youth begin to challenge the old way of doing things.