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Roaring 20's/ Great Depression Flashcards

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Great change in sexual, artistic and cultural norms

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Cultural Civil War

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A period change, prosperity and tension

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Roaring 20’s/ Great Depression

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Racial tension/ Great Migration

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Blacks moved from the south to the northern cities

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Fear that there was going to be a communist take over of the American government

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Red Scare

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Ran Illegal alcohol business/ brought booze

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Gangsters (Bootleggers)

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Underground alcohol/dance clubs

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Speakeasies

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Rural areas made homemade recipes of whiskey

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Moonshiners

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Acquisition of material goods beyond what is necessary

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Consumerism

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“The noble experiment” - ban of alcohol

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Prohibition

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First women’s rights convention - beginning of movement

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Seneca Fall Convention

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Women activists who demanded that men and women be equal and fought for women’s suffrage - the right to vote

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Suffragettes

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Leaders of American feminist movement - women activists

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Alice Paul and Lucy burns

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Founder of planned parenthood

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Margret Sanger

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The unconventional women who wore short, wore makeup, wore skirts and shorts, smoked, and drank

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Flappers

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Freedom Torches

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Cigarettes

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The origin of the species
(Challenged christianity)

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Charles Darwin Theory

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Jazz composer

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George Gershwin

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Jazz trumpeter

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Louis armstrong

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Most famous jazz club in harlem

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Cotton club

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20
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The greatest invention of the period

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The Radio

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21
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First radio station in America

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WKDKA Pittsburgh

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22
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Boxing heavyweight champion

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Jack Dempsey

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Closed all taverns, bars, and saloons in U.S

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Volstead act

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24
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Biggest Gangster

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Al Capone

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Old conservation Christian values and traditions (rual) were questioned and replace with…

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New liberal anti-Christian ideas (urban)

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What was the beginning of the “Modern age”

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Out with the old ideas of the “Victorian age” in with the new

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Closed all taverns, Bars and saloons in the usa

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Volstead Act

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Main reason why it ended:

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Alcohol was a huge tax revenue for local, state and federal governments

29
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The perceived wealth of the 20’s created a…
Purchased on credit!

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Consumer Society

30
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New modern inventions that made life easier

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Automobiles, radios, household appliances and music (Jazz and blues were new musical styles )

31
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Married woman gave up what?

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all rights, money, prosperity
1) could not vote, had no legal rights
2) could even been illegally beaten, wives were their husbands slaves

32
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Made more money than the president of the usa

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Babe Ruth

32
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19th Amendment

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(Women’s suffrage) gave them the right to vote

33
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Gave Americans a sense of freedom and independence

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the automoblie

33
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Silent Films
( Talkies)

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1st with words

34
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Greatest engineer of the time
“created the assembly line”

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Henry Ford

35
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Auto capital of the world

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Detroit

36
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Capital of black America

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Harlem

37
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A celebration of the African American culture

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Harlem Ren. “New Negro” Movement

38
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Some famous people

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Langston Hughes- Poet
Duke Ellington and louis Armstrong- musicians

39
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“Invisible Empire” supreme grand wizard
Violent and anti-Black, jews, catholic and immigrant organization

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Ku-Klux-Klan

40
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why did the kkk target those groups?

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They were blamed for all the problems in society and there goal was to purify America

41
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Symbol of the KKK

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Flaming cross

42
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Ushers in the age of aviation
1st solo transatlantic airplane flight

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Charles Lindbergh

43
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Back to Africa movement

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Marcus Garvey

44
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Co-Founder of the NAACP

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W.E.B Du Bois

45
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Group of people who lived in Paris during the 20’s

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Lost Generation

46
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he wrote “A farewell to arms”

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Ernest Hemingway

47
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Wrote “The Great Gatsby”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

48
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Causes of the great depression (5)

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1) Unequal distribution of wealth
2) Overproduction in industry
3) High taxes (Tariffs)
4) Easy credit
5) Stock Market crashed

49
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What was the Official beginning of the great depression ?

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The crash of the stock market

50
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Major source of help?

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Bread and soup lines

51
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Shanty Towns (unemployed)

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“Hooverville”

52
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He Promised Americans a “Chicken is every pot and a car in every garage”

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Herbert Hoover

53
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During the depression he did very little to combat it? why?

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He believed that if you just let it run its course it would be over soon

54
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American soldiers from WW1 had been promised a bonus (money) by the us government for their service during ww1

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Bonus army

55
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National bank holiday
closed 5 days

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Emergency Bank Act

56
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Group of the leading schools/businessmen (advisors) how to get out of the depression

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Brain trust

57
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A set of federal economic programs to get the country out of the depression centered around the 3R’s

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New Deal

58
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The 3R’s

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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

59
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Major programs:

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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

60
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Did the programs work?

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yes and no - they slowed the depression down but did not end it

61
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Worst drought in the American history

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The dust Bowl

62
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People who migrated to Cali on RT.66

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“Okies”

63
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Migratory Worker or homeless vagabond

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“Hobo”

64
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When did the Great depression end?

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when the USA entered WW2 in 1941

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