The Red Scare
The two social classes
Proletariat (Working Class) and Bourgeoisie (Wealthy Class)
Years of the Great Depression
1929-1941
People couldn't pay for new conveniences so a new system was introduced.
Credit
Huey Long's plan
Share Our Wealth Plan
Musician named the great "Satchmo"
Louis Armstrong
Led to a Red Scare
a widespread fear of political radicals, also known as "Reds"
Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929
people overspeculated their stocks and borrowed money they couldn't pay back
Prohibition
It made it illegal to manufacture, sale, or transport alcoholic beverages.
Huey Long's famous speech
"Every Man a King"
Harlem Renaissance
A time in the 1920's and 1930's when African Americans celebrated their culture through art, music, and literature.
Two Italian immigrants sentenced to death
Sacco and Vanzetti
One reason Americans doubted the stability of the banking system
collapsing economy or bank failures
A former Soldier during WWI and wrote stories that criticized the glorification of war.
Ernest Hemingway
The political group that is most likely to support him
Populists
The first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean
Amelia Earhart
Another group that was accused of being radicals
Immigrants (specifically Italians)
Purpose of buying stocks "on margin"
so that they can buy more stocks than they could with their own money
One of the most famous bootleggers.
Al Capone
Long became the chairman of
the LA Railroad Commission (the Public Service Commission)
The two most famous artists of the 1920s and 1930s
Jacob Lawrence and Augusta Savage
Palmer tries to keep the nation safe by
arresting people who were immigrants (spoke a different language) and for criticizing the government
Name of makeshift communities
Hoovervilles
Fundamentalism
The belief that the Bible is literary truth and without error.
System which required every person he gave a government job to pay him 10% of what they earned
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Langston Hughes tried to help readers understand what life was like for Black people in 1920s America by...
Blending jazz rhythms and dialects.