Post World War I
economy where there is total private ownership, Market forces, Class distinction, Production for profit.
What is Capitalism?
A time of rapid social change and economic prosperity, it ended with the Great Depression
What is the Roaring 20s?
laws which allowed for the separation of black and white people, was primarily found in the southern states.
What is Jim Crow?
FDRs plan to improve the American economy and pull us out of the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
one of the causes of the Great Depression, people were in debt because they would purchase new items using this new offering.
What is buying on a margin?
Trial where a teacher was charged for teaching evolution in a high school.
What is the Scopes Trial?
Women who challenged 'traditional' gender roles, cut their hair short, and wore shorter clothes.
Who are flappers?
The boom of black culture and music such as jazz, ragtime, and blues.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
People would build homes out of anything they could find in alleys and abandoned lots.
What are Hoovervilles?
this destroyed farms in the Midwest by dry weather and over production on farmland.
What was the Dust Bowl?
during the first red scare the government led actions to arresting and deporting suspected communists and anarchists.
What are the Palmer Raids?
Amendment which prohibited the sale, distribution, and transportation of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The movement of African Americans from South to the North to escape Jim Crow/Racism.
The Great Migration
Individuals are responsible for their own success, and should not rely on the government.
buying stocks using borrowed money.
What is buying on a margin?
One of the deadliest pandemics in history, symptoms like fever, cough, sore throat, and extreme fatigue.
What is the 1918 Influenza Outbreak?
Amendment which gave women the right to vote (suffrage)
What is the 19th Amendment?
Association which led the black civil rights movement through the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the NAACP?
economic ideology, where the government has little involvement in the countries economy.
What is Laissez Faire?
crowds of people were worried about the banks failing, so went to their banks to withdraw their savings
What is a Bank Run?
A group which led the socialist movement within Russia, and seized their government power(established the USSR.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
created by Henry Ford. New way to build a product, more efficiently and ultimately this made the car less expensive and more accessible for the common man.
What is the Assembly Line?
time period where there was an increase in racial violence, such as lynching, against African Americans after World War I.
What is the Red Summer?
Insured the money people put in banks.
What is the FDIC?
The 1929 Stock Market Crash, Widespread bank failures, Over production of goods, and Concentration of wealth.
What are the main causes of the Great Depression?