The Roaring 20's

Question 1

Post war
Isolationism

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Post war
Progressive crusades

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Post war
Labor unrest

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Post war
Red Scare

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Post war
Wall Street Bombing

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Industry and Invention
Production –> consumption

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Industry and Invention
Advertising

Answer 7

Peer pressure/sex appeal/celebrity spokespersons

Question 8

Industry and Invention
Lower prices

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Industry and Invention
Growth of Automobile Industry

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Industry and Invention
Airplane

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Industry and Invention
Radio + Movies

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Changing Society
Gangsters

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Changing Society
Sports

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Changing Society
Urbanization

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Changing Society
Women

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Changing Society
Women- Margaret Sanger

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

Changing Society
Women- National Women’s party

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Changing Society
Jazz

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Changing Society
African Americans- Harlem Renaissance

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Changing Society
African Americans- Langston Hughes, 1902-1967

Answer 20

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

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

Changing Society
African Americans- Marcus Garvey

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Changing Society
Literature- The Lost Generation

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Social Conservatism
Reaction to people changing so quickly

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Social Conservatism
KKK

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

Social Conservatism
Nativism

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

Social Conservatism
Sacco and Venzetti

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

Social Conservatism
Prohibition

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

Social Conservatism
Fundamentalism

Answer 29

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.

Question 30

Business Reigns Supreme
Stock Market

Answer 30

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.