The Roaring 20's Flashcards

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Post war
Isolationism

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Americans want to stay out of european conflicts. They didn’t get the 14 points and weren’t apart of the league of nations. They find it better to keep the focus on them. There was also the FInluenza-Spanish Flu that was worth 50% of the deaths in the war.

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Post war
Progressive crusades

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Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson, had a progressive campaign. People want something different/normal

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Post war
Labor unrest

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The labor Board was trying ot keep peace between leaders and laborers during the war. 4 million go on strike after the war because of rapid post war inflation, job cuts (now that the managers are free from government moderation). The Boston Police Strike causes the national guard to fire the strikers and police men who were cut by the commissioner.

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Post war
Red Scare

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Russia dropped out because of the bolshevik/communist revolution. THey fear communism is spreading, seeing evidence through labor strikes. Attorney General, A Mitchel Palmer targets suspect communists. Over 6,000 people are arrested. 249 suspected radicals deported to the USSR.

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Post war
Wall Street Bombing

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A Mitchel palmer warns of May Day riots. But they didn’t happen. The idea of communism kind of calms down. However, Mid September 1920, a cart blows up in Wall Street, killing 30 and injuring hundreds more outside of JP Morgan bank.

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Industry and Invention
Production –> consumption

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convincing public to consume with greater enthusiasm. From the recession built up from the war, people are starting to purchase more instead of save. Develops people buying on credit

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Industry and Invention
Advertising

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Peer pressure/sex appeal/celebrity spokespersons

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Industry and Invention
Lower prices

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Henry Ford had perfected the assembly line, producing a car faster and cheaper. Fredrick W Taylor (Taylorism) explains ways of eliminating wasted time and materials

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Industry and Invention
Growth of Automobile Industry

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Ten seconds for a car to be produced by henry ford. Growth created in the glass, steel, construction of roads, oil production, gas station industries. Helps fuel economy

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Industry and Invention
Airplane

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Orville and Wilbur Wright use their airplanes in fairs after their first 12 second ride in 1903. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh makes the first flight across the Atlantic

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Industry and Invention
Radio + Movies

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Harding wins elections, the KDKA live broadcasting it on the radio. It becomes the way people communicate and learn information. Comedy shows, sporting events, family listening time. Increases big business through advertising. Movies tended to be shown at arcades until Hollywood became popular. They had good weather, and geography. Early movies were heavy with nudity and vamps. Brings the country together and creates new ideas about being a woman

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Changing Society
Gangsters

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Al Capone and Johnny Torrio in Chicago become the biggest crime syndicate caused by prohibition and bootleggers producing their own alcohol. There are too many killings that the public is trying to create change. In 1929, there is St. valentine’s day massacre, where a gang dressed up as police murder the gangsters. Al Copone is arrested for income tax evasion.

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Changing Society
Sports

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Technology and advertising, radio orchestrate the popularity of sports. College football becomes more popular than national. It creates a big business with sports. Even now, people are addicted to sports

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Changing Society
Urbanization

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1920 Census about urban nation. Most people are switching from rural to urban populations, like Chicago and New York as people continue to move away from farming jobs.

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Changing Society
Women

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Breaking away from Victorian age. People moving to shorter dresses, and more promiscuous behavior. Start going out to clubs as they experience some economic freedom. Flapper style becomes popular, as well as a more boyish silouhette.

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Changing Society
Women- Margaret Sanger

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Advocate for birth control. Gives women more freedom to engage in sexual activity like men. Age of motherhood is pushed back. She was on the side of eugenics, wanting forced sterilization of people who were not equal, like minorities and immigrants.

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Changing Society
Women- National Women’s party

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pushing for equal rights amendments. They want an amendment stating that they had the same rights. The amendment is not passed

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Changing Society
Jazz

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Only true American form of music. Jazz moves north with African Americans during the Great migration from New Orleans, moving to major cities like Chicago. Louis Armstrong, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band

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Changing Society
African Americans- Harlem Renaissance

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Moved north with a vibrant culture, to places like Chicago and New York.

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Changing Society
African Americans- Langston Hughes, 1902-1967

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main poet of the day, flowering of African culture in the north because of mass migration and their need for laborers.

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Changing Society
African Americans- Black Wall Street & Tulsa Race Massacre

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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, African Americans made the Greenwood district into a vibrant district with shops, schools, churches, with lots of wealth. A young man had ran into a hotel elevator operator. She screamed and he ran away. She claimed it was sexual assault and gets arrested. Black and white men show up to the court house armed. Shots are fired, and the black men run back to Tulsa, where upwards of 300 people are killed, houses are burned to the ground. 10,000 people became homeless as insurance wouldn’t pay their dues.

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Changing Society
African Americans- Marcus Garvey

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A Jamaican preaching black nationalism, and about how they’re not going to bow down to the white men. The concept of black being beautiful is led by his movement. Forms the Negro Improvement Society to push for black rights. Malcom X, Black Panthers, take after his ideology, while Martin Luther takes after the Church and Ghandi. You have more people fighting for their rights

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Changing Society
Literature- The Lost Generation

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Soldiers come back disillusioned from the war, asking why did we fight the war? They criticize middle class values of marriage, patriotism and democracy. H. L. Mencken is the father of the movement, expressing how patriotism and democracy is not al that we think. F. Scott. Fitzgerald talks about class consciousness and achievement of society. Earnest Hemingway about the horrors of war. Poets like E. E. Cummings ignores the rule of diction, making unstructured poems

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Social Conservatism
Reaction to people changing so quickly

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People are trying to protect the traditional WASP values, especially from people in the rural communities

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Social Conservatism
KKK

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Moves from the south and spreads to the Midwest. Becomes anti-change, communist, immigrants, and creates growth in the clan in the 1920’s. It is a reaction to the change of America.

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Social Conservatism
Nativism

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Want America to be ethnically 100% American, meaning following WASP, culturally and politically. Causes the Emergency Quota act of 1921, followed by the Immigration act of 1924, which allows 3 percent then 2 percent of the immigrants in the United States during the 1910 Census and 1890 census.

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Social Conservatism
Sacco and Venzetti

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2 Italians who are anarchist and communist gets arrested for double murder, and sent to the death penalty despite the questionable evidence. People in Europe supported them because of the dubious evidence, but were executed after 7 years of appeals.

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Social Conservatism
Prohibition

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Volstead act of 1919 passed to make it an amendment in the constitution for it to be prosecuted. It outlaws the production, sale, or distribution of alcohol, which increases the crime rate and organized crime. Prohibition doesn’t work well in larger cities because of no money and large immigrant populations, but it does reduce some drinking. People are able to make harder liquor, since beer takes more work. Work attendance goes slightly up.

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Social Conservatism
Fundamentalism

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Christian fundamental leaders looked as the bible as fact, and the modernist idea of believing in Darwinism and evolution was harmful. Causes the Tennessee Scopes “monkey” trial in 1925. You weren’t allowed to teach evolution, but John T. Scopes does under the support of the ACT. Clarence Darrow, the best defense attorney defends him in court. William Jennings Bryan is the prosecutor, bringing in a person dressed as a monkey. Darrow destroys his argument and makes him look like a fool. Although Scopes was convicted of the crime, but the fine was overruled by the state supreme court.

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Business Reigns Supreme
Stock Market

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People are using extra money to invest in the stock market with little knowledge of how it works or what they’re buying. Companies are lying about profits, and stock watering. People are using credit to buy stocks. People see the stock markets as a game because there is no government regulation.

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