Standard 5 1920s - 1930s Flashcards
Another name for the roaring twenties because jazz music was popular
Jazz Age
People buying things
Consumer Economy
The policy of protecting American manufacturing with high tariffs, and avoiding alliances with foreign governments
Isolationism
The practice of buying items by making monthly payments
Installment Plan
a new process where workers put one part on an unfinished car as it moved past their work station.
Assembly line
The decade of 1920 to 1929 characterized by fast paced social changes
The roaring Twenties
practice of making high-risking investments in hopes of obtaining large profits (buy when price is low, sell when price is high)
Speculation
Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion (evolution, modern social attitudes)
Modernism
A law that made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages illegal.(18th Amendment)
Prohibition
a scandal that occurred when a member of president Harding’s cabinet took a bribe to open the navy oil reserves in Teapot Dome , Wyoming, to private companies
Teapot Dome Scandel
Using credit to buy stuff
Installment Plan
Period of rising stock prices
Bull Market
State of Tennessee vs John Scopes, test of the law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Scopes Monkey Trial
system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest
Buying on Margin
a white hate group that targeted blacks, Catholics, immigrants, and Jews
KKK
A policy of very limited interference in buinesses (maybe even no interference’s)
Laissez-faire
A new crime of the 20s that involved bribery for protection
Racketeering
anti-immigrant feelings among Americans that led to a distrust of foreigners and quotas on immigration.
Natavist
young girls during the 1920’s who rebelled against traditional fashions and morals
Flappers
arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the united states from specific countries
Quota system
The making of the same item in large quantities in order to decrease its price
Mass Production
(Banks and the stock market in the 20’s were pretty much allowed to do whatever they wanted)
Laissez-faire
The first “talkie movie” (movie with sound
“Jazz Singer”
2nd highest tariff in U.S history. Crippled the economy and helped create a world wide depression.
Hawley-Smoot tariff
October 29, 1929, when stocks prices fell sharply in the Great Crash (marked the beginning of the great depression)
Black Tuesday
Shanty run down thrown together housing built by people who had been kicked out of their homes and apartments because of non payment of rent or mortgages. Farmers who lost their homes became transient or migrant workers, but thousands went to Southern California where there were farms jobs
Hooverville
Farmers from the dust bowl affected Great Plains that relocated in large numbers to southern California to work farm jobs that were located there
Okies
Writer from the “Lost Generation” but became well known for his book “The Grapes of Wrath” about a family from Oklahoma and their struggles during the Great Depression as a migrant farm family moving to California because of the Dust Bowl.
John Steinbeck
Environmental crisis in the west, farming methods ,drought,disease,and insects lead to dry conditions in which the wind carried the top soil for hundreds of miles. (many states established soil conservation services during this time, including MS) Many states started a soil conservation program to adress erosion even states that were not directly affected by the dust bowl
dust bowl
Pointed out the conflict between Modernism and Traditionalism, Evolution and Creation, Science and Religion.
Scopes Monkey Trial
WW1 Veterans who were promised their war pension, but they marched on Washington DC to demand their bonus to be released to them early. Average bonus was 2-5 thousand. Wasn’t supposed to get bonus until 1945.
Bonus Army
The exaggerated fear that communists were everywhere in our country.
Red Scare
A mass movement of African Americans out of the south and into the north for jobs
Mass Migration
Stock prices began to fall and investors start to worry about investments.
Bear Market
A person who believes in the traditional moral religions teachings of the church
Fundamentalism
