Roaring 20s/ Great Depression Flashcards
the key terms
The 20s
A period of great change, prosperity, and tension (Era of great prosperity)
Great Migration
Blacks move from the South to the Northern created “racial tension”
Red Scare
A fear that was going to be a communist take-over of the American Government.
18th Amemdant
“Noble Experiment” led by women’s Temperence union
Volstead Act
closed all taverns, bars and saloons.
Gangsters
ran illegal alcohol businesses
Al Capone
Gangster in Chicago (crime greatly)
Speakeasies
underground alcohol dance clubs
Farmers
“moonshiners” rural areas made from homemade recipes
Origin of Nascar
running from the law
Consumerism
the acquisition of material goods beyond what is necessary
Consumer society
things purchased on credit (buy now, pay later)
Seneca Falls Convention
First women right convention (official beginning of movement)
Suffrage
The right to vote.
Suffragettes
women activist
Sexual Revolution
“New women”
Birth Control Movement
(Margret Sanger) founder of planned parenthood
Flappers
the unconventional new women who wore their hair short, skirts short, makeup & etc