Roaring Twenties Flashcards
What prospered and expanded?
Corporates
What new areas did business venture into?
Autos, chemicals, radio and movies, (tech)
What increased
Output and profit
What opportunities and wages increased?
Employment opportunities and wages increased
What was the economy fueled by?
Public confidence (post WWI)
What were sick industries?
Coal, textile, railroads, and agriculture
What did not rise with production?
Consumer purchasing power (inflation)
What led to over speculation in real estate and stocks?
“Get rich quick”
Labor strife
corporations
Boston Police Strike (1919)
rioting, looting, violence
What did the number of factory workers increase to?
7 million
Racial Strife
Friction in the cities
Who were angered by discrimination?
African Americans
Who feared competition for jobs?
White-Americans
How many race riots were there in 1919?
25
What did the Chicago riot start?
Starts over altercation at public beach -> six days of violence
What is Red Scare?
Fear of Communism
What were bomb scares tied to?
Radical Organizations
What were some radical organizations?
Anarchists, galleanists, and socialists
Who were the targets for the bomb scares?
Politicians, wealthy, powerful, and opponents of radicals
Who went after radicals?
Attorney general
Red Scare
Russian revolution (Bolshevik takeover)
When was the U.S. Communist party formed?
After the bloody revolution follows
Who supported African American immigrants, labor unions?
Communist party
A. Mitchel Palmer
Attorney general who theorized that the strife was caused by the Bolsheviks
Who begins to harass communists?
A. Mitchel Palmer
Fear of Foreigners
Nativism
Who believes they are superior to new immigrants
WASP (upper class, White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant)
What set limits on immigrants
Immigrations Quotas (1921)
What reduced quotas each year?
National Origins Act (1924)
When was the revival of the Klu Klux Klan?
1915
What was the silent movie by D.W. Griffiths?
“Birth of a Nation”
Who were Italian Anarchists?
Sacco and Vanzetti
What were Sacco and Vanzetti mistrusted for?
Beliefs/ethnicity
What were Sacco and Vanzetti suspected for?
The bombings of 1919
Who gained the right to vote?
Women (19th amendment)
What was created when taken out of work place?
Prolonged adolescence
What became mandatory?
High school education
What increased in education?
College enrollment
Who was the intellectual voice of the Black Community?
W.E.B DuBois
Fifty Years and Other Poems
James Weldon Johnson
White Shadows
Claude McKay
Who wrote poetry to describe Black tragedies?
Langston Hughes
Where was the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Dayton, Tennessee
Who taught Darwinism?
John Scopes
Who opposed Darwinism?
William Jennings Bryan
Who was America’s greatest defense attorney?
Clarence Darrow
Industry creates boom in?
Rubber (tires), steel, glass
Industry creates what kind of new businesses?
Motels, roadside restaurants (HoJo’s), and gas stations
Warren Harding got his start as the owner of a?
Weekly newspaper in Ohio
Before becoming President, Harding served as a?
Lieutenant governor and Senator
The group of corrupt “friends” that Harding used as advisors while President were nicknamed the?
Ohio gang
The treaty that called for the nations with the most powerful naval forces to limit the sized of their nativities?
Five Power Treaty
The treaty that called for an “Open Door” in China was?
Nine Power Treaty
The treaty that states that Britain, France the U.S. and Japan would respect the other’s holding in the Pacific was the?
Four Power Treaty
These three treaties were negotiated at the?
Washington Conference
Harding’s contribution to the financial management of the nation was the?
Budget and accounting act
The protectionist tariff that led to retaliation from Europe was the?
Fordney-McCumber tariff
The demand by World War One veterans for extra money based on their service during the war?
The bonus bill
Harding’s Attorney General who was accused of wrongdoing while in office?
Harry Daughtery
Harding’s Secretary of the Interior?
Albert Fall
Albert Fall was involved in which famous scandal?
Attempted theft of the national oil reserves
How did Coolidge become President?
After Harding was assassinated
What was Coolidge’s nickname?
Silent Cal
Who was the candidate for the Democrats in the election of 1924?
John W. Davis
What was Coolidge’s campaign slogan in the election of 1924?
Keep Cool with Coolidge
What was Coolidge’s most famous quote regarding business? How does this quote reflect his feelings towards big business?
“The business of America is business” he believed not to interfere with the economy
Why did Robert Lafollette leave the Republican Party and run as a progressive candidate in 1924?
He was protesting the treatment of farmers
How did Coolidge view the problems of the farmers?
He said farmers were always poor and nothing could be done to help them
Who was the Candidate for the Democrats in the election of 1928?
Al Smith
What was Al Smith’s claim to fame?
He was the first Roman Catholic to run for President
Who was the candidate for the Republicans in the election of 1928?
Herbert Hoover (he headed the food administration)
What was Hoover’s position in the Harding and Coolidge administrations?
Secretary of Commerce
List four products that became readily available due to mass production in the twenties
Phonograph- Vinal Record Player
Refrigerator
Automobile
Radio
What advances were made in the Health during the 1920’s?
Childhood diseases (measles, typhoid fever) brought under control, improvements in hygiene
What advances were made in education during the 1920’s?
Free, compulsory, secondary education
List four aspects of this decade that led to it being labeled the “Jazz Age”
Music
Movies
Flappers
Speakeasies
Baseball
Babe Ruth
Boxing
Jack Dempsy/ Gene Tunney
Golf
Bobby Jones
Who was the biggest hero of the 1920’s
Charles Lindbergh
What did Charles Lindbergh Accomplish?
First solo, non-stop transatlantic airplane flight
Newspaper man who referred to the American people as the “booboisie”
H.L. Mencken (Editor for Baltimore Sun)
Why were the writers of the 1920’s “disillusioned” with society?
World War I, post-war world, failure of 14 points
List 5 popular writers of the 1920’s who belonged to this “disillusioned” school of writing
Sinclair Lewis
Sherwood Anderson
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
