Fun & Games
What are the other names for the 1920s? (3 Things)
The Roaring 20s, the Jazz Age, the Lost Generation
What problems did soldiers face Post WWI? (3 Things)
Soldiers faced unemployment, Prices increased (Inflation), A record number of strikes.
What are Suffragettes? What amendment gave women the right to vote?
Group of women who campaigned for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. 19th.
What is a depression?
An economic condition in which prices are low, manufacturers are receiving little to no profit, businesses fail, there is high unemployment, & no bank loans are given out
What is a Hooverville?
A shanty town made of discarded wood, metal, & cardboard.
What is the New Deal? What is the purpose of it?
FDR’s agenda for fighting the depression & changing the direction of America.
The purpose of the New Deal was to provide relief, recovery, and reform.
Why are there so many social changes in the 1920s?
Americans are anxious to shed old values and morals
What is the Red Scare? What are the Palmer Raids?
A fear of communism.
Raids by Mitchell Palmer on organization believed to conduct radical activity.
Thousands of immigrants under suspicion (of communism) were rounded up and thrown in jail or deported.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
It involved Harding’s Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall. Fall had accepted bribes of more than 300,000$ for secretly leasing government oil reserves in Elk Hill, California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming to private oil companies.
- His punishment= 1st cabinet member in US history to go to jail; he served a year and paid a 100,000 dollar fine
What were the signs of the Depression? (4 things)
Maldistribution of income (uneven wealth), Rising debt, Speculation in the Stock Market, Buying on margin was used, Overproduction (surplus of goods)
Who were the Bonus Marchers? Why did they march?
Bonus Marchers=WWI Veterans (20,000 jobless)
Why=They were demanding their money promised by President Calvin Coolidge.
How did FDR fix the banking problem?
He pushed Congress to pass the Emergency Banking Act
How did the Jazz Age begin?
Origin= the American South, but was brought to Northern cities by southern African American Musicians
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A period of tremendous advancement in black music, art, and literature.
What are moral changes of the 1920s?
There are changes in manners, morals, and fashion.
The Charleston is a popular dance, there are dance Marathons, more dating freedoms, and a new female image, called the Flapper.
What is "Black Thursday?"
What is "Black Tuesday?"
“Black Thursday”=investors began selling their stocks.
“Black Tuesday”=the stock market crashed.
How did Hoover deal with the Bonus Marchers?
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
It created a bank holiday for four days. For four days, all banks were shut down and they were encouraged to open back again. 75% of the banks reopened after 4 days.
What are some new technologies of the era?
Radio, Cars, Movies (with sound!), passenger airplanes, first shopping center, first parking garage, traffic lights, first fast food chain, first time credit was used to purchase goods
The idea that a country should keep to itself & not involve itself in international affairs.
What is Prohibition? What amendment passed Prohibition?
Prohibition= Outlawed making, selling, transporting, importing, & exporting alcoholic beverages.
18th Amendment
What is a bank run?
People rush to the bank and withdrawal all their money.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff? What was the intended result? What was the real result?
It raises the tariff on foreign goods to help farmers by keeping out foreign competition.
It was to keep prices low.
Result=it backfired; other countries raised their tariffs as well
What was the longest lasting of FDR's New Deal Programs?
Social Security
What are talkies?
The first movies with sound
What are eugenics?
A pseudoscience (false science) that deals with improving hereditary traits
How did people get around Prohibition? Who was the most famous bootlegger?
People opened speakeasies, people used bootlegging. Most famous bootlegger= Al Capone
How did President Hoover attempt to fix the Depression? (5 things)
He put the blame on worldwide economic conditions beyond our control. He hoped voluntary action would end the depression. He organized a White House Conference of business leaders. He created jobs for some by creating public works projects. He helped banks by giving them government credit so they could extend loans.
Which President was blamed for the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
Who is the main critic of the New Deal, called Kingfisher, and governor of Louisiana?
Huey P. Long