Roaring 20's/ Great Depression Flashcards
Great change in sexual, artistic and cultural norms
Cultural Civil War
A period change, prosperity and tension
Roaring 20’s/ Great Depression
Racial tension/ Great Migration
Blacks moved from the south to the northern cities
Fear that there was going to be a communist take over of the American government
Red Scare
Ran Illegal alcohol business/ brought booze
Gangsters (Bootleggers)
Underground alcohol/dance clubs
Speakeasies
Rural areas made homemade recipes of whiskey
Moonshiners
Acquisition of material goods beyond what is necessary
Consumerism
“The noble experiment” - ban of alcohol
Prohibition
First women’s rights convention - beginning of movement
Seneca Fall Convention
Women activists who demanded that men and women be equal and fought for women’s suffrage - the right to vote
Suffragettes
Leaders of American feminist movement - women activists
Alice Paul and Lucy burns
Founder of planned parenthood
Margret Sanger
The unconventional women who wore short, wore makeup, wore skirts and shorts, smoked, and drank
Flappers
Freedom Torches
Cigarettes
The origin of the species
(Challenged christianity)
Charles Darwin Theory
Jazz composer
George Gershwin
Jazz trumpeter
Louis armstrong
Most famous jazz club in harlem
Cotton club
The greatest invention of the period
The Radio
First radio station in America
WKDKA Pittsburgh
Boxing heavyweight champion
Jack Dempsey
Closed all taverns, bars, and saloons in U.S
Volstead act
Biggest Gangster
Al Capone
Old conservation Christian values and traditions (rual) were questioned and replace with…
New liberal anti-Christian ideas (urban)
What was the beginning of the “Modern age”
Out with the old ideas of the “Victorian age” in with the new
Closed all taverns, Bars and saloons in the usa
Volstead Act
Main reason why it ended:
Alcohol was a huge tax revenue for local, state and federal governments
The perceived wealth of the 20’s created a…
Purchased on credit!
Consumer Society
New modern inventions that made life easier
Automobiles, radios, household appliances and music (Jazz and blues were new musical styles )
Married woman gave up what?
all rights, money, prosperity
1) could not vote, had no legal rights
2) could even been illegally beaten, wives were their husbands slaves
Made more money than the president of the usa
Babe Ruth
19th Amendment
(Women’s suffrage) gave them the right to vote
Gave Americans a sense of freedom and independence
the automoblie
Silent Films
( Talkies)
1st with words
Greatest engineer of the time
“created the assembly line”
Henry Ford
Auto capital of the world
Detroit
Capital of black America
Harlem
A celebration of the African American culture
Harlem Ren. “New Negro” Movement
Some famous people
Langston Hughes- Poet
Duke Ellington and louis Armstrong- musicians
“Invisible Empire” supreme grand wizard
Violent and anti-Black, jews, catholic and immigrant organization
Ku-Klux-Klan
why did the kkk target those groups?
They were blamed for all the problems in society and there goal was to purify America
Symbol of the KKK
Flaming cross
Ushers in the age of aviation
1st solo transatlantic airplane flight
Charles Lindbergh
Back to Africa movement
Marcus Garvey
Co-Founder of the NAACP
W.E.B Du Bois
Group of people who lived in Paris during the 20’s
Lost Generation
he wrote “A farewell to arms”
Ernest Hemingway
Wrote “The Great Gatsby”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Causes of the great depression (5)
1) Unequal distribution of wealth
2) Overproduction in industry
3) High taxes (Tariffs)
4) Easy credit
5) Stock Market crashed
What was the Official beginning of the great depression ?
The crash of the stock market
Major source of help?
Bread and soup lines
Shanty Towns (unemployed)
“Hooverville”
He Promised Americans a “Chicken is every pot and a car in every garage”
Herbert Hoover
During the depression he did very little to combat it? why?
He believed that if you just let it run its course it would be over soon
American soldiers from WW1 had been promised a bonus (money) by the us government for their service during ww1
Bonus army
National bank holiday
closed 5 days
Emergency Bank Act
Group of the leading schools/businessmen (advisors) how to get out of the depression
Brain trust
A set of federal economic programs to get the country out of the depression centered around the 3R’s
New Deal
The 3R’s
1) Relief- gave temporary help to the suffering and unemployment
2) Recovering- designed to help the economy bounce back from the depression
3) Reform- targeted the causes of the depression and sought ways to prevent it from happening
Major programs:
1) public works program- (jobs) built highway, parks, bridges, schools…etc
2)federal emergency relief program: gave small amounts money to people until they get work
3) Federal assistance for farmers, businesses and banks
4) SSS- Set aside money for people’s retirement
Did the programs work?
yes and no - they slowed the depression down but did not end it
Worst drought in the American history
The dust Bowl
People who migrated to Cali on RT.66
“Okies”
Migratory Worker or homeless vagabond
“Hobo”
When did the Great depression end?
when the USA entered WW2 in 1941
