The Roaring Twenties Flashcards
an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently also became known as the “Capones”, was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor, and other illegal activities such as prostitution, in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.
Al Capone
part of the Teapot Dome Scandal; Secretary of the Interior; secretly leases land of Teapot Dome and other land to oil people so they loan him personal money; loses his job and serves time in Federal Prison
Albert Fall
was an American statesman who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928
Alfred E. Smith
was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and United States Secretary of the Treasury
Andrew Mellon
used airplanes to sink battleships July 1921; wrote 1924 repot predicting Japan would bomb Pearl Harbor; in 1925 he is court-martialed; considered Father of the Air Force
Billy Mitchell
first full length feature film; stirred movement in the KKK
Birth of a Nation
was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican politician from New York
Charles Evans Hughs
first to fly west to east across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindburg
is accused of stealing funds from Vetrens funds and kickbacks; he fled the country; he is found and indicted for corruption and bribery; has to have 10,000 dollar fine and two years in federal prison
Charles R. Forbes
defense attorney for the Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow
a socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.
Communism
durable goods
Consumer durables
is legendary in silence; known for honesty and integrity; Election of 1924 Coolidge vs. Davis; Fordney McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff push tariffs to all time high; appoints William Howard Taft to Chief Justice
Calvin Coolidge
an attempt following World War 1 for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany
Dawes Plan
is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations
Evolution
Washington Naval Treaty; as a treaty among the major nations that had won World War I, which by the terms of the treaty agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction
Five Power Treaty
term used for new women in the 1920’s
Flapper
is the demand for a strict adherence to orthodox theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, primarily to promote continuity and accuracy
Fundamentalism
was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s
Great Migration
is republican candidate in 1920; wins over James Cox; his ordinariness won him the election; major policy ‘Less government in business and more business in government’; main agenda is cut government budget; did little for farmers; raised prices of foreign grains; his appointments are mixed up bunch of good and bad
Warren G. Harding
was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”; named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke
Harlem Renaissance
started as leader in automobile market; General Motors begins introducing different colors and passenger comfort; Chrysler always focuses on comfort
Henry Ford
buying stock on credit
Installment Plan
was an philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform; Dewey decimal system
John Dewey
was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer; legal career is most remembered for his final appearance before the Supreme Court, in which he unsuccessfully defended the “separate but equal” doctrine in Briggs v. Elliott, a companion case to Brown v. Board of Education
John W. Davis
1928; agreement sponsored making war illegal; 60 nations signed; no way to support it, but symbolic
Kellog-Briand Pact
wins people because they are super patriotic; organized by Nathan Bedford Forest during reconstruction; theyfades after reconstruction; in 1915 William J. Simmons reforms the themin Georgia; Birth of a Nation stirred this; must be Protestant and must not be foreign to join; Red Scare escalated Klan membership; decline after 1925 due to scandals and internal power struggles
Klu Klux Klan
is a bitter hilarious poet who uses jazz as rhythm
Langston Hughes
lost touch with the world after they returned from war; not sure what is real anymore
Lost Generation
was originally Jamaican; advocated return to Africa; makes himself provisional leader of Africa; Black Star Line passenger ships; gets bankrupt; arrested; Garvey is arrested for mail fraud
Marcus Garvey
Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921; he is best known for directing the “Palmer Raids”
Mitchell Palmer
begins 1924; goes to the 1890 census and say only 2% allowed in; National Origins Act of 1927 only so many could come in, mostly British and German, 4% Italian
National Orgins Act
series of raids in order to capture alleged radicals
Palmer Raids
began with 18th amendment in 1919; Volstead act made making, transporting, and selling alcohol was illegal, but buying and drinking wasn’t; punishment was 1000 fine or 6month jail time; Chicago gangsters are first to capitalize on prohibition as a business opportunity; speakeasies were undercover saloon where people could partake in drinking; bootlegging was making and transporting alcohol, tightly controlled by gangsters
Prohibition
anti-communist hysteria
Red Scare
anti-communist hysteria
Reds
Bolsheviks; Russians
Reparations
in May 1920; the two arrested for armed robbery and murder of the Paymaster and guard of shoemaking factory; both are Italian immigrants and were previously members of anarchist groups; evidence is extremely weak and they are more on for political views, the people are all very prejudice towards them; they are sentenced to the electric chair in 1927
Sacco and Vanzetti
as a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school
Scopes Monkey Trial
as a five-day general work stoppage by over 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, which lasted from February 6 to February 11 of that year
Seattle General Strike
were undercover saloon where people could partake in drinking
Speakeasies
Secretary Fall of the Interior secretly leases land of Teapot Dome and other land to oil people so they loan him personal money; Fall looses his job and serves time in Federal Prison
Teapot-Dome Scandal
the first movie to include sound (called a talkie)
Jazz Singer
a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist
Vladimir Lenin
made making, transporting, and selling alcohol was illegal, but buying and drinking wasn’t
Volstead Act
1921 tries to end this; Charles Evans Hugh’s suggests each country should destroy a ratio of their ships; Britain, US, Italy, France and Japan get rid of old ships and don’t build any more for ten years; US and Japan recommit to respecting their establishments
Washington Naval conference
was what companies did to prevent unions; company provides benefits such as cafeteria and recreation; need to keep workers happy
Welfare Capitalism
is an agreement between an employer and an employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of a labor union
Yellow Dog Contracts
