Roaring and Reactionary 1920's Flashcards
Who were the presidents during the 1920’s? (2 of them)
What do they want?
Warren G Harding
Calvin Coolidge
RETURN TO NORMALCY
Defining features of Roaring 20s economic boom?
Industrial prodution, National Wealth, and
Wages up.
Installment plans and advertisments.
Purchase of household assignments.
2/3 total purchases by woman.
Highest standard of living on EARTH
UNIA ideas and leader
NAACD ideas
UNIA:
‘Lets go back to Africa’
Marcus Garvey
NAACD:
enforcers of 14th and 15th amendment
want anti lynching law
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Who is Amelia Airhart?
Charles:
guy to make first transatlantic flight.
Had a parade bigger than WW1 victory parade
Amelia Airhart:
First woman attempt to go around the world.
disappeared
Tools for establishing mass culture
Grocery stores (?)
Movies
Radio
Cars
Sports
Aviation
Culutral change: (what and who)
Books
Music
Sex
Books: realistic and emotional
Hemmingway and Fitzgerald
Music: Jazz music and dance halls
Lois Armstrong
Sex revolution: car sex (petting), flappers, birth control, planned parenthood
Sigmund Freud, Margaret Sanger
Reactionary Immigration Restrictions:
Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 and 1924
1921:
immigration no more than 3% of europe population
1924: only 2% of europe population and halt asian immigration almost compleelty
New KKK
National clan led by methodist preacher. Involved in government.
against: Browns, Athiest, free woman, communist, anyone different.
Clan went violent after D.C stephenson (grand dragon) got locked up for rape clan got labled as illegal and went from 3 million followers to 100k
Protestant Fundamentalist:
What and who
succesful religion that interpret bible literally in south and disagree with evolution
Ma Ferguson banned evolution books
John Scopes Monkey trial
sciopes taught evolution in school even if it was illegal.
case broadcasted nationally on radio.
got a slap on the wrist and evolution is kinda a national topic now
road to prohibition
Protestant Fundamentalist and woman against liquor
18th amendment passed and un-enforcable
Our big bootlegging rivalry
Scarface Al Capone vs Elliot ness
al capone had a $1billion opertaion from border to border and elliot ness brought him down with tax evasion
