Sosh Flashcards
Explain the Red Scare, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the Palmer Raids.
Red Scare:
When people that were scared of reds spreading to the US.(Communist/Socialist/Anarchist)
Sacco and Vanzetti: They were 2 Italian Anarchists who were arrested for stealing from a man. It showed bias. (Gov was scared of reds)
Palmer Raids: Raids led by the government that arrested suspected people of being reds.
What is Fundamentalists vs Evolutionists and the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Fundamentalists: People who believed strictly in the bible and god vs. Evolutionists: People who believed Darwin’s theory that all life forms evolved from lesser life forms.
Scopes Monkey Trial: When a teacher was arrested for teaching evolution and not creationism. The South was very religious.
What is a Bootlegger?
What is a speakeasy?
What were the arguments for and against prohibition?
What is Prohibition/18th Amendment
What is the 21st amendment?
Bootlegger/Gangster: People who smuggled alcohol.
Speakeasy: a hidden underground bar.
Prohibition: It banned alcohol and caused outrage. Americans would secretly drink, smuggle, and caused a rise in gangs, mafia, crime.
Supported Prohibition: Leads to violence, abuse, effects women and children. A lot of women supported prohibition.
Against Prohibition: Overstep of the government, gov shouldnt control that and americans want to drink and culturally a lot of people are accustomed to drinking.
21st amendment: Unbanned alcohol.
What’s buying on margin?
What is Installment plans?
What is mass production?
What is Model T?
Who is Henry Ford?
What is Consumerism?
Buying on margin: When you buy a loan to be used to invest into stocks.
Installment Plans: paying a down payment and then paying the rest weekly/monthly
Mass Production: Using Assembly lines (Each person was assigned a different job that they did repeatedly, slowly assembling a certain product.) to make items cheaper and faster.
Henry Ford: The person who made the Model T automobile.
Consumerism: Big economic boom, leads to people being irresponsible with money, big loans, overspending, ppl buying more things, Installment plans.
What is Return to Normalcy?
What is Ohio Gang?
What is Teapot Dome Scandal?
Return to Normalcy: Harding saying to return the U.S. to normal. No more war/death. Response to WWI.
Ohio Gang: President Harding brought in his friends to work in his administration in the white house. They were all crooks, and dishonest.
Teapot Dome Scandal: Person from the Ohio Gang that sold land and oil rights from the government to make money for himself.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Harlem Renaissance: A period in history when black culture, arts, literature exploded. Be sure to acknowledge the key figures of the era.-louis armstrong, langston hughes, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington. also showed hope.
How did women experience changes during the 1920s?
They got the right to vote via 19th Amendment, Women being more rebellious against societal norms and being more independent, Flappers
What is the Spanish Flu?
A pandemic in the early 1900s killed 50-100 mil ppl
What is the Revival of the KKK?
What is Xenophobia?
What are the Quota Acts?
KKK: The KKK changed from hating black people to hating immigrants. They used intimidation and violence.
Xenophobia: Fear/hatred of immigrants.
Quota Acts: Only allowed 3% of people from each country to immigrate to the U.S. (Pushed to 2% later) Against Immigration.
