Keith GDP Flashcards

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Prohibition (18th amendment) causes and failures

A

made to decrease crime that people coupled with alcohol. Made a significant increase in crime (organized crime)

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19th amendment

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granted women the right to vote

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flappers

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rebellious women that went along with women’s suffrage and redefined women normality.

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4
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speakeasies

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illegal bars that served alcohol

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5
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Charles lindbergh

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first man to fly solo across atlantic. flew in the spirit of st louis

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mass culture

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what is popular and how you know it is popular

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Al jolson and the jazz singer

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The first movie that had sound

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amelia earhart

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first women to fly across atlantic solo. Disappeared while trying to fly around the world

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isolationism

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The US decided it did not want to be involved in foreign affairs, so they removed themselves.

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10
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Harlem Renaissance

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Black people from harlem started showing of their creativity and became famous.

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marcus gavey

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led African Americans and said that they should be proud of their heritage and should possibly go back to africa

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installment buying

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people bought stuff on credit and said that they would pay their debt later

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on-margin buying

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people pay certain amount for stock and then have to pay back the rest of the price that they owe

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14
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overproduction/consumerism

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there was a surplus of goods, therefore they came buy very cheap, making businesses very poor, causing part of the great depression

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causes of GDP

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major stock crash and people could not pay off all of their debt, therefore making many jobless

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16
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bonus army

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ww1 veterans wanted their bonus pay when GDP started. Gov would not pay until 1941. made a riot.

17
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dust bowl

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in the SW there was over production of crops, leaving the land out of nutrients, making the dust bowl

18
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hoovervilles

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a neighborhood of shacks were people lived during great depression

19
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Stock market Crash

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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

20
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scopes trial

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in Tennessee scopes was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution. Started a war between new and old ways

21
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Great depression ends

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pearl harbor= US enters war= hire people to make war goods

22
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TVA

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Tennessee valley authority(made by gov) created to make flood prevention and add electricity to Tennessee and other rural areas

23
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bank failures

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banks fail because they lent out money to stock buyers= when stocks crashed= couldn’t pay people that wanted their money back

24
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Social security and its problems

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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

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national debt
The US spends more money than it has, but it also is paying of previous wars, deals, etc