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Roaring 20s/ Great Depression Flashcards

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The 20s

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A period of great change, prosperity, and tension (Era of great prosperity)

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Great Migration

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Blacks move from the South to the Northern created “racial tension”

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Red Scare

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A fear that was going to be a communist take-over of the American Government.

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18th Amemdant

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“Noble Experiment” led by women’s Temperence union

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Volstead Act

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closed all taverns, bars and saloons.

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Gangsters

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ran illegal alcohol businesses

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Al Capone

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Gangster in Chicago (crime greatly)

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Speakeasies

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underground alcohol dance clubs

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Farmers

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“moonshiners” rural areas made from homemade recipes

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Origin of Nascar

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running from the law

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Consumerism

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the acquisition of material goods beyond what is necessary

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Consumer society

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things purchased on credit (buy now, pay later)

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Seneca Falls Convention

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First women right convention (official beginning of movement)

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Suffrage

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The right to vote.

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Suffragettes

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women activist

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Sexual Revolution

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“New women”

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Birth Control Movement

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(Margret Sanger) founder of planned parenthood

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Flappers

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the unconventional new women who wore their hair short, skirts short, makeup & etc

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Cigarettes

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Freedom torches

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Charles Darwin

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The origin of the species

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Scopes Monkey Trail

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God or Evolution taught in schools

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George Gershwin

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Jazz Composer

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Loius Armstrong

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Jazz Trumpeter

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Cotton Club

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Most famous jazz club in Harlem NY

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Phonograph/Victrola

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“Photograph records”

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Jack Dempsey

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Boxing (heavyweight champion)

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Babe Ruth

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“THE BABE” made more money than the president.

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WKDKA

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Pittsburg- 1st radio station in America

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The Radio

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new sources of communication (the great invention of the period)

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The Automobiles

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gave Americans a sense of freedom an independence.

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Klu-Klux-Klan

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a violent anti-black, Jewish, catholic and immigrant organization

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Detroit

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auto capital of the world

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Breadlines/Souplines

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major source to help (mostly churches)

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Lost Generation

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Group who lived in Paris during the 20s

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Earnest Hemingway

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“To whom the Bell toll” Farewell to arms

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Flaming cross

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symbol

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Lucky Lindy

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national hero

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W.E.B DU BOIS

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co-founder of NAAACP

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Emergency Bank Act

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National Bank holiday

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FDIC

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Federal Deposit insurance corporation

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Fireside Chats

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Roosevelt talked with the people over the radio

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Brain Trust

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group of leading scholars/buisnessman

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New Deal

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A set of federal government economic programs to get the country out of the depression centered around the four r’s.

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Social Security Program

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set aside money for the peoples retirement.

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Great Plains

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Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, etc.

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Okies

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people who migrated to California on route 66

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Hobo

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migratory worker or homeless vagabond

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