Roarsing 20- Hollywood Flashcards
anti- foreigner/ immigrant sentiment swept across the country !
Nativism
a fear that there was going to be a communist take- over of the American govt
Red scare -
blacks to the north cities
Great migration
first woman’s right convention *( official beginning of the movement
Seneca falls convention
Suffragette
Suffragette
leaders of the American feminist movement a non- violent protests
Alice Paul & Lucy burn
“new woman”
woman gained new sense of freedom and independence!
Began to work outside the home for the 1st time
Birth control movement - Margaret Sanger ) founder of planned parenthood
- less children brought more freedom
Sexual revolution
were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
Flappers
freedom torches
Cigarettes
God or evolution taught in the schools
Scopes monkey trail
jazz composer
George Gershwin
jazz trumpeter
Louis Armstrong
most famous jazz club in Harlem
Cotton club
the Charleston “, the shimmy, and the Lindy hop - most famous dance steps
Dance craze:
one greatest invention of the time
radio new sources of communication- one greatest invention of the time
baseball was king
babe Ruth
boxing, heavyweight champion)
jack Dempsey
Motion pictures
Hollywood
by 1929- 75% of American were going at least once a week!
silent films- at first
Talkies 1st with words
The jazz singer - 1st with
18th amendment - noble experiment “ - 1920-1933
illegal to manufacture and ,buy or sell alcohol , to consume it
Proh ibition :
Causes of Great Depression
- Unequal distributions of wealth
- Overproduction
- High tariffs
- Easy credit
- Stick market crash
brokers were “buying on the margin” barrowing money to invest!
Black Tuesday” October 29,1929
