JAZZ AGE Flashcards
cost of living
the cost of purchasing goods and services essential for survival
general strike
a strike involving all the workers in a particular region
red scare
promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.
palmer raids
raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
deported
expel (a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime.
j edgar hoover
he was given the responsibility of heading a new section of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Investigation called the General Intelligence Division. The G.I.D. was created to gather intelligence on radical groups, and was responsible for organizing the arrest or deportation of alleged seditionists. This led to the controversial “Palmer Raids,
supply side economics
lower taxes will boost the economy
isolationism
us policy of staying out of foreign affairs
kellog briand pact
was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.
dawes plan
take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflationand to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability.
mass production
production of large quantities of goods using assembly lines and facotires
assembyly line
each person performs an assigned task
consumerism
social and economic order and ideology encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts
credit
the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.
mass advertising
Advertising designed to reach large numbers of people, for example through newspapers and television
welfare capitalism
companies enable employees to buy stocks and receive benefits like healthcare
open shop
workplac where workers not required to joina union
quiet depression
agricultural failure of many crops which forced farmers to begin selling what other almost non-profitable crops which they had little of to markets and a lot of them lost a lot of money trying to restore the failed crops.
sacco vanzetti
In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact that the two men were known radicals (and that their trial took place during the height of the Red Scare) prejudiced the judge and jury against them. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti’s final appeal was rejected, and the two were sentenced to death.
anarchist
a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government
emergency quota act
Annual allowable quotas for each country of origin were calculated at 3 percent of the total number of foreign-born persons from that country recorded in the 1910 United States Census.
national origins act
A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.
fundamentalism
a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
scopes trial
trial of john scopes v tennessee, creaitonism vs evolution
prohibition
the banning of alcohol
speakeasies
bars where alcohol was illegally purchased and consumed
modern art
incorporated a diverse range of styles
lost generation
writers that described life as empty and materialistic
ashcan realists
expressed loneliness and isolation
mass media
raiod, movies, newspapers, magazines
edith wharton
insider’s view of America’s privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight., the house of mirth
ty cobb
“The Georgia Peach”, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder.
george gershwin
significant American composers of the 20th century, known for popular stage and screen numbers as well as classical compositions.
charlie chaplin
English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era
talkies
the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue—known as “talking pictures”, or “talkies”—were exclusively shorts
great migration
movement of african americans from the south to the north
langston hughes
American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance
zora neal hurston
their eyes were watching god
jazz
a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz.
blues
melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
cotton club
located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd St & Lenox Ave from 1923 to 1935[1] and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during America’s Prohibition Era.
marcus garvey
a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)
harlem
large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center
duke ellington
an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestrasan American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras
josephn baker
an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the “Black Pearl,” “Bronze Venus” and even the “Creole Goddess”.
louis armstrong
was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer who was one of the pivotal and most influential figures in jazz music
bessie smith
American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues
