The Roaring Twenties

Question 1

Describe the Red Scare

Answer 1

• Americans feared communists because of how they overtook Russia
• “palmer raids” where A. Mitchel Palmer went around arresting and deporting anyone who seemed like a communist or a Russian

Question 2

Describe Nativists:

Answer 2

-people who promote the interest of Americans who were born in the U.S. opposed to and against any immigrants (specifically communists and Russians here)

Question 3

Describe the Immigration Quota Acts of 1921 and 1924

Answer 3

• 1921: congress made a max number of immigrants who could come from each European country
• 1924: (revised from before) number of immigrants let into U.S. could not be more than 2% of that ethnic population living in the US in 1890

Question 4

Describe Prohibition and Temperance

Answer 4

• Prohibition: made alcohol illegal
• effect in 20s: bootlegging (producing and smuggling alcohol), speakeasies (clubs that sell alcohol), and more crime (Al Capone)
• Temperance: going without alcohol

Question 5

Describe speakeasies

Answer 5

-Clubs where people gathered to drink alcohol

Question 6

Describe the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 6

• great migration: hundreds of African Americans moved from south to north to escape racism and find jobs
• moved to Harlem NYC, became the black capital of America
• Harlem Renaissance: literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture

Question 7

Describe consumerism

Answer 7

-the theory that an increasing expenditure on commercial (non-essential) goods is economically desirable.

Question 8

Define communism

Answer 8

• belief in no central government, everyone benefits from common wealth
• (reality) single party govt. ruled by a dictator, state owns all property

Question 9

Define isolationism

Answer 9

• policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

- happened after WW1

Question 10

Define the Klu Klux Klan

Answer 10

• lots of lynching (mob attacks, mainly towards black people for little to no reason)
• wore robs to seem like the ghosts of Confederate Soldiers

Question 11

Define bootleggers

Answer 11

-people who illegally produced and sold alcohol

Question 12

Define Flappers

Answer 12

• emancipated young women who embraced new daring fashions and modern, urban attitudes of the 20s
• know for “masculine behavior”: smoking, drinking, taking about sex

Question 13

Define the Great Migration

Answer 13

-when hundreds of African Americans moved from south to north to escape racism and find jobs

Question 14

Define credit

Answer 14

• installment credit became popular

- not paying for everything upfront: loans, installment plans, etc.