The "Red Scare"
Supporters of a political theory, that hold all forms of government.
What is an Anarchists?
a time period where prices hit an all time low and caused a crash to the market.
What is a stock market crash?
The banning of the transportation or sale of alcohol.
What is the Volstead Act and what did it ban?
Illegal to teach human evolution in public schools.
What is the Butler Act?
A woman who goes against the standard modesty at the time to being more scandalous, in order to symbolize women's freedom and independence.
What is a Flapper?
The Idea of worker revolution that overturns capitalism into communism.
What is a Marxists?
When farmers went into debt and had to sell without gaining any profit, causing many to become jobless or even homeless.
What are drought conditions?
thought that prohibition would prevent violence, crime, and poverty.
Why were women in support of the prohibition?
The teaching of progress typically more urban vs the teaching of religion that preserves morality.
What is modernism and traditionalism?
Women that were considered Suffragettes during the time period of activism.
Who is Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Carrie Chapman Catt?
The overturning of the Russian government, turning it into an autocracy due to revolutions.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
Banks had failed and were uninsured, causing people to lose their savings. This led people to a widespread number of job losses as company's were forced to shut their doors.
What was unemployment during the great Depression?
The prohibition was not effective because it led to organized crime and an increase of corruption.
Was the prohibition effective? and why?
Who is Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan?
Women suffrage gave women the right to vote and led them to be able to enter the workforce.
Why was this considered a turning point for women?