Keith GDP Flashcards
Prohibition (18th amendment) causes and failures
made to decrease crime that people coupled with alcohol. Made a significant increase in crime (organized crime)
19th amendment
granted women the right to vote
flappers
rebellious women that went along with women’s suffrage and redefined women normality.
speakeasies
illegal bars that served alcohol
Charles lindbergh
first man to fly solo across atlantic. flew in the spirit of st louis
mass culture
what is popular and how you know it is popular
Al jolson and the jazz singer
The first movie that had sound
amelia earhart
first women to fly across atlantic solo. Disappeared while trying to fly around the world
isolationism
The US decided it did not want to be involved in foreign affairs, so they removed themselves.
Harlem Renaissance
Black people from harlem started showing of their creativity and became famous.
marcus gavey
led African Americans and said that they should be proud of their heritage and should possibly go back to africa
installment buying
people bought stuff on credit and said that they would pay their debt later
on-margin buying
people pay certain amount for stock and then have to pay back the rest of the price that they owe
overproduction/consumerism
there was a surplus of goods, therefore they came buy very cheap, making businesses very poor, causing part of the great depression
causes of GDP
major stock crash and people could not pay off all of their debt, therefore making many jobless
bonus army
ww1 veterans wanted their bonus pay when GDP started. Gov would not pay until 1941. made a riot.
dust bowl
in the SW there was over production of crops, leaving the land out of nutrients, making the dust bowl
hoovervilles
a neighborhood of shacks were people lived during great depression
Stock market Crash
many people think economic prosperity would end= sell all their stocks at once= make prices crash= people couldn’t pay of debt for the stocks= start GDP
scopes trial
in Tennessee scopes was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution. Started a war between new and old ways
Great depression ends
pearl harbor= US enters war= hire people to make war goods
TVA
Tennessee valley authority(made by gov) created to make flood prevention and add electricity to Tennessee and other rural areas
bank failures
banks fail because they lent out money to stock buyers= when stocks crashed= couldn’t pay people that wanted their money back
Social security and its problems
SS take 9% of peoples paycheck. When they reach 62 they will get money back. Doesn’t work bcuz for every 10 people putting money in, it has to pay out 12
national debt
The US spends more money than it has, but it also is paying of previous wars, deals, etc
