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units 5 Flashcards

1
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The boom refers to

A

the decade of the 1920’s.

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2
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John green said that 1920s gave us good and bad what are the good things

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labor saving devices
assembly line
women can vote

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3
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john green said that 1920s gave us good and bad what are the bad things

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revival of the KKK
stock market crash
St.Valentine’s day Massacre (rise of gangsters)

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4
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the 1920s giving us the worst economic crises of all time is what and why

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its an opinion because someone might consider something else worse

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5
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who said “the chief business of the American people is business”

A

calvin coolidge

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6
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the presidents in the 1920s were all part of what party

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republicans

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7
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productivity improved in the 1920s why and who was it perfected by

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industries adopted the assembly line, which was perfected by henry ford

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8
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four labor saving devices invented in the 1920s

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vacuums
toasters
fridges
cheap car

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9
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for celebrities that achieved great fame in the 1920s

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Charles Lindbergh
Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino
Babe Ruth

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10
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Harlem became an important cultural center of () during the 1920s

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Black America

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11
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who came up with the concept of “the marketplace of ideas

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supreme court justice oliver wendell holms

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12
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what dose the marketplace of idea mean

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this means that it’s a place for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market

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13
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by the end of the decade the usa was producing ()% of the worlds cars and ()% of the world’s manufactured goods

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85% of the worlds cars and 40% of the world’s manufactured goods

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14
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the “big 3” automobile dealers in the 1920s

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ford
chrysler
general motors

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15
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the bust refers to what decade

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1930s

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16
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what are the years of WW2

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1941-1945

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17
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the narrator say that the boom was bought with what

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the boom was bought with credit

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18
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the narrator says in the video that some stocks are valued at () times what they are really worth

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50 times more

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19
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why are some stocks valued more than they really are

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this is because FED (federal reverse system) artificially increased interest rates

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20
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the stock market chrashed in what year

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1929

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21
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why was the stock market crash such a big deal

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it was a time when the stock market lost 12 times more cash in 3 weeks than the US gov uses in a year

22
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()% of the usa population owned stock in 1929

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2% owned stock

23
Q

by 1933 there were () states without banks

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28 states

24
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what was “the roaring 20s”

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jazz age, dance age, age of prohibition

25
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the red scare
1918- what did the communists (bolsheviks) do

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killed the last Czar, took control of russian gov and people worry about radical communism spreading to the us

26
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the red scare
palmer raids:

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attack peoples liberties

27
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jazz age
new styel of music:

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uniquely american, improvised, influences from Europe/Africa

28
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louis armstrong:

A

new orleans jazz singer

29
Q

jazz and blues born in the (), spread to the () cities via “the great migration”

A

jazz was born in the south spread to the north

30
Q

lucky lindy (years)

A

1927

31
Q

the monkey trial 1925

A

small tennessee town, teaches darwin’s theory of evolution vs the bible story of creation

32
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the monkey trial 1925
bryan

A

creationism wins, but he pays scope’s fine

33
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the great depression
what happened during oct. 1929

A

stock market crash “black thursday”

34
Q

the bust refers to what

A

bubble of speculation” was created and then “popped”

35
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the great depression
why did the bubble exist

A

the fed tricked the people into thinking they were saving their money

36
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the great depression
why did entrepreneurs/speculators fail to anticipate this crash

A

federal reserve (created in 1913)and artificially low interest rates

37
Q

prohibition was tried and failed why was it tried

A

people drank too much
young drinking
temperance not enough
paychecks got spent at bars
thought it would be safer
wanted more control

38
Q

what does fed stand for

A

federal reserve system

39
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what was the first decade where urban citizens surpassed rural in the US

A

1920s

40
Q

the US presidents of the great depression

A

herbert hoover
franklin d. roosevelt

41
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hoovervilles

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desperate for shelter, homeless citizens built shantytowns in and around cities across the nation. These camps came to be called Hoovervilles, after the president

42
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what was the depression with in the depression

A
43
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bonus army

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military soldier that wanted their retirement paycheck early

44
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smoot-hawley tariff act

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a law that implemented protectionist trade policies

45
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“buying on margin”

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Buying on margin involves getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash.

46
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flapper

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Flappers were a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

47
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what is the famous dance during the jazz age`

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Charleston (the dance)

48
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Louis Armstrong

A

Very influential jazz musician, vocalist and trumpet, new orleans

49
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“The Great Migration”

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The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately 6 mil Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.

50
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New Deal

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Gave a bunch of jobs and “ended” the great depression.

51
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Social Security

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a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.

52
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calvin coolidge

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