Roaring 20s/ Great Depression Flashcards

the key terms (47 cards)

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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

20
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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
"Photograph records"
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Jack Dempsey
Boxing (heavyweight champion)
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Babe Ruth
"THE BABE" made more money than the president.
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WKDKA
Pittsburg- 1st radio station in America
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The Radio
new sources of communication (the great invention of the period)
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The Automobiles
gave Americans a sense of freedom an independence.
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Klu-Klux-Klan
a violent anti-black, Jewish, catholic and immigrant organization
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Detroit
auto capital of the world
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Breadlines/Souplines
major source to help (mostly churches)
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Lost Generation
Group who lived in Paris during the 20s
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Earnest Hemingway
"To whom the Bell toll" Farewell to arms
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Flaming cross
symbol
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Lucky Lindy
national hero
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W.E.B DU BOIS
co-founder of NAAACP
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Emergency Bank Act
National Bank holiday
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FDIC
Federal Deposit insurance corporation
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Fireside Chats
Roosevelt talked with the people over the radio
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Brain Trust
group of leading scholars/buisnessman
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New Deal
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
set aside money for the peoples retirement.
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Great Plains
Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, etc.
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Okies
people who migrated to California on route 66
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Hobo
migratory worker or homeless vagabond