Events
A global conflict sparked by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrillo Princip
What is WWI or The Great War?
This constitutional amendment guranteed women's suffrage rights
What is the 19th Amendment?
A cultural movement of the 1920's that challenged the culturally acceptable behaviors and arts of the past
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
the state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality
What is Neutrality?
A type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century.
What is Jazz?
A major population shift of African Americans from the rural south to urban regions in the north and west
What is the Great Migration?
a federal law in the United States that sets minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards for most employees, ensuring they receive a fair wage and reasonable working hours; essentially establishing basic employment rights for workers across the country
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
young women in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional gender norms and embraced a new sense of freedom. They were known for their short skirts, bobbed hair, and love of jazz--sometimes the even went to dance clubs at night (GASP)!
Who were Flappers?
identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized.
What is racism?
What is Black Tuesday?
DAILY DOUBLE
This constitutional amendment is the only one designed to negate another constitutional amendment
An economic ideology and political group that advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally owned instead of being owned by individuals
What is Communism?
a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
What is an Ethnic Group?
makeshift settlements built by homeless people during the Great Depression, named after a President that was in office when the Depression began and was blamed for it
What are Hoovervilles?
A small aspect of the Great Depression that resulted in farmers having to high of a supply of crop and to low of a demand to sell it at a profit
What is the Wheat Bubble Burst?
Designed as guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world, this document included ideas regarding nations' conduct of foreign policy and the construction of an international government designed to prevent further global conflict
What is Wilson’s 14 points?
a political philosophy and political group and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism
Who are Anarachists?
A system manufacturing where semi-finished products move from workstation to workstation. Parts are added in sequence until the final product is produced.
What is the Assembly Line or What is Fordism?
the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held
What is dissent?
A short but intense period of political intolerance in the U.S.A. after WWI
What is the First Red Scare?
a law passed in 1933 to help the country recover from the Great Depression. It established the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to regulate industry and create codes of fair competition
What is the National Relief Act?
a cultural, social, and political philosophy and group with an ideology that seeks to promote and preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values and believes limited government is best for individual freedom
What is Conservatism?
a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
What is Isolationism?
the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community in the United States of America
What is the American Standard of Living?