The 1920s Flashcards
What are 2 words used to describe the 1920s?
Uncontrolled and crazy
What was the economy like in the 1920s?
- significant growth in income
- lots of credit
- stock is up
- standard of living increases
- cars
- electronic appliances
What did the “Jazz Age” lead to?
- jazz music
- idea of people mingling and integration
What was the greatest impact of the 1920s?
Political conflict/ corruption
- Germany’s economy tanks after WWI
What was the cause of organized crime in the 1920s?
Prohibition
What was the Lost Generation?
A 1920s literary movement that focused on sadness, darkness, death, and that life has no meaning. It was impacted by WWI.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
An expression of African American pride and artistry that was effected by the great migration, which led to money. It was expressed through music, literature, paintings, etc.
What caused political corruption in the 1920s?
- Harding Presidency
- political allies
- teapot dome scandal
What was the Harding Presidency?
A very corrupt presidency, due to his political allies, Ohio gang, that follow him from Ohio and did illegal political activity. Harding’s contribution is unknown, due to his heart attack, but he was aware of the political corruption caused by his allies.
Why was Harding chosen to run for president?
He looked presidential.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Fall is bribed for his valuable oil, later goes to jail. This was part of the political corruption during the Harding Presidency.
What was Prohibition?
Alcohol was illegal
What was the Volstead Act?
A law that enforced prohibition that was underfunded and had a lack of police to enforce it.
What was the black market?
Organized crime that was led by prohibition. Ethnic gangs (purple gang and mafia) sold illegal alcohol, which caused much violence.
What is the Purple gang?
The Detroit gang that smuggled illegal objects (alcohol) from Canada.
What ethnicity is the mafia?
Italian
What is a flapper?
A stylish, brash, hedonistic (pleasure loving) young woman with money, short skirts, and shorter hair. Not a prostitute.
Who is a famous bootlegger?
JFK’s dad
What was Al Capone put in jail?
Evasion of income taxes
How does Al Capone die?
Heart attack
What is religion?
- beliefs
- faith
- supreme being
- a place for answers, hope, and forgiveness
- tradition of belief
- rules and guidelines for living
Who is Billy Sunday?
A fundamentalist
Who was Aimee Semple McPherson?
A famous fundamentalist who had several marriages, and disappears at the height of her career. She returns with a crazy story of being kidnapped in the desert to cover up her love affair in Mexico.
What is backsliding?
People that are moving away from tradition
What is evangelicals?
McPherson’s Temple
What was the title of the scopes trial book?
Inherit the wind
What part does Bryan play in Inherit the Wind?
Brady AKA the prosecutor
What part does Scopes play in Inherit the Wind?
Cates AKA the teacher on trial for illegally teaching evolution in TE to his students. It favored science as oppose to the bible.
What part does Darrow play in Inherit the Wind?
Drummond AKA the lawyer
What does agnostic mean?
High power is ok, but church is not.
What does atheism mean?
There is no god (communist belief).
What is the color of communism?
Red
What is communism?
An economic and political system based on one party government and state ownership of property (no private property). An international system popular in poor countries that saw owners exploding their workers.
Who wrote the communists manifesto?
Marx and Engels (in German)
What were the communists’ goals?
- no private property
- gov. control of
business/communication/transportation - failed with farms
What are proletariat?
Working class that wants higher wages
What are bourgeois?
Owners that wanted low wages
Why did communism work better in poor countries?
The lack of a middle class
Who is Al Capone?
The head of the mafia in Chicago AKA scarf ace.
What are speakeasies?
Illegal bar/nightclubs that sold alcohol
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in southern states after the Civil War.
What is the quota system?
A system that sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries a nation will admit each year.
What is isolationism?
An opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
A foreign anarchist group that was charged for robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree Sentenced to some, some believed due to their radical beliefs. Sentenced to death.
What is an anarchist?
A person who opposes all forms of government.
What is nativism?
Favoring the interests of native born people over foreign born people.
What is evolution?
A theory stating that plant and animal species had developed and changed over millions of years.
What is a bootlegger?
A person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the US during prohibition.
What is fundamentalism?
A Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all the stories and details in the bible are literally true.
What is the Scopes Trial?
A sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. scopes was tried for challenging a TE law that outlawed the teaching if evolution.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Lead the Bolsheviks (majority), a communist leader
What was the steel strike?
- shorter hours + living wage
- union recognition + collective bargaining right
- hired strike breakers
- linked strikes to communism
- ended with negotiation
- strikers were beaten
What is the Boston police strike?
- asked for a raise
- fired and members weren’t allowed to return
to work - no public safety
- strike ends (Coolidge)
What is the red scare?
The fear of communists
What is palmers raid?
Several dozen bombs were mailed to gov. and business leaders, feared communists were taking over.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
He was the first solo pilot to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Babe Ruth?
A baseball player who broke the record for home runs, won the series title for the Yankees, and was one of the first players to be inducted into the baseball hall of fame.
Who was Gertrude Ederle?
The first woman to swim the English Channel.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
A jazz trumpeter and singer who transcended racial barriers to become a nationally recognized performer.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
A over dramatic actor who exaggerated emotions.
Who is Harry Houdini?
A well known escape artist
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
The president of the pro-business spirited 1920s.
What is an urban sprawl?
The unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions.
What is the installment plan?
An arrangement in which a purchaser pays over an extended time, without having to put down much money at the time of purchase.
Who hated Sacco and Vanzetti?
The nativists
KKK
Anti
- Jewish
- immigrants
- black
- catholic
Superficial prosperity
Not true, shallow, on surface fake
Credit caused it
- Borrowed fuel money in the 1920’s economy
What happens with transportation in the 1920s?
Personal transportation or automobiles are common
Not many trains
Why didn’t they use carpets and what did they use instead?
Too hard to clean used rugs
What was the name of the car ford made?
Model t
Why was the car more common?
Affordtable
Symbol of freedom
What was the first highway?
Route 66
How could people afford this lifestyle?
Credit
What was this lifestyle considered?
A superficial prosperity
Route 66
Highway with lights and only two lanes
Was the 1920s a time of inventing or popularizing?
Popularizing
