Vocabulary
Define: Jim Crow Laws
Laws that targeted Black Americans in the south via segregation / voting restriction
Two reasons Black Americans migrated from the rural South to Northern cities
To escape Jim Crow laws / Lynchings & Racism / No job opportunities / Better pay and education in the North / More opportunities in the North
President at the start of the Great Depression / Why did he fail to fix it?
Herbert Hoover / He thought the citizens should fix the economy on their own to avoid too much Govt. assistance
Process the Government uses to make sure no branch (Legislative, Executive, Judicial) has too much power
Checks and Balances
Name four (3) Northern Cities Black Americans moved to during the Great Migration
New York, Newark, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburg, LA
Define: The Great Migration
Millions of Southern Black Americans migrating to Northern Cities
The event that helped the US economy and caused the twenties to be "roaring"
World War I
The president at the end of the Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
Who gained the right to vote in 1920 and which amendment ratified (passed) it?
Women / 19th
Industry that caused Detroit's black population to increase by 600%
The Auto (Car) Industry
Define: Prohibition AND Bootlegger
The banning of the sale of alcohol in the US / someone who illegally made/sold alcohol
What event started the Great Depression?
The stock market crash of 1929
Name three Harlem Renaissance Artists
Check the back wall*
Why was flapper culture so important for women during the 1920s?
It was a new way for women to express themselves/ be independent / combat stereotypes / break gender roles
10 year drought that lasted in the Great Plains area in states such as Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and New Mexico
The Dust Bowl
Define: immigration Act of 1924
Quota put on immigration into the US, only allowing small amounts of European immigrants into the US per year
What was the New Deal? Name a program (not a place) that was created from it.
A program by FDR that gave U.S. citizens jobs + money to help end the Great Depression. Social Security, Welfare, Minimum wage.
Explain how World War I & II helped the United States economy, even though they were tragedies.
Many jobs were created to support the war, which helped citizens rejoin the workforce and make money.
The Scopes Monkey Trial was controversial because...
Tried to teach evolution science in school over the teachings of the Bible.
What was an unintended consequence of Prohibition?
Increased crime, poisoned liquor, unintended consequences, cost the Government $$$
Define: Hoovervilles
Shacks / homeless camps that victims of the great depression stayed in. Named after President Hoover
What event "technically" ended the Great Depression?
World War II
FDR was criticized for trying to do this in order to get more New Deal acts passed.
Court packing. Tried to increase the number of appointed Supreme Court Justices
Why President Hoover didn't just give people money to solve the depression?
The prevent society and the economy from becoming too dependent on the government
Why was the Harlem Renaissance so unique to the United States in the 1920s?
First emergence / global appreciation of Black American Culture