Motion Pictures to the end of The Great Depression Flashcards
First motion picture without sound
Silent Films
First motion picture with words (Jazz singer was the 1st talkie film)
talkies
gave Americans a sense of freedom and independence
The automobile
the greatest engineer of the time
Henry Ford
auto-capital of the world
Detroit
new Negro movement
Harlem Renaissance
Capital of black America
Harlem (NYC)
“invisible empire”- supreme Grand wizard was the leader
K.K.K (Ku Klux Klan)
Symbol for the K.K.K
flaming cross
Ushers in the Age of Aviation
Charles Lindbergh
started the “Back to Africa Movement”- a controversial figure said it was hopeless to integrate the races in America
Marcus Garvey
cofounder of the NAACP (national association for the advancement of the colored people)
W.E.B Du Bois
group of writers who lived in Paris during the 20’s
Lost generation
wrote “a farewell to Arms” and “to whom the bell tolls”
Ernest Hemingway
wrote “The great gatspy”- book that exposes that money doesnt buy happiness
F. Scott Fitzgerald
official beginning to the Great Depression
The stock market crash
major source of help during the great depression
bread/soup lines (mostly churches)
settlement for the unemployed “hooverville”
Shanty Towns
U.S president at the beginning of the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
American soldiers from WW1 had been promised a bonus, paid by the government until 1945
Bonus Army
ran as a democrat against Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt talked with the people over the radio- a method of communication used to explain his program to U.S Citizens
Fireside Chat
group of leading scholars/businessmen- cabinet (advisors)
Brain Trust
