1920s
Held onto traditional cultural and religious values
What is traditionalism?
Stock market speculation, overproduction, installment plans, the gold standard
What were the main causes of the great depression
Higher wages in the North and West
Better access to jobs (factories)
Oppression might be less in the north
What were the PULL factors of the Great Migration?
Secures savings and banking accounts of Americans
What was the FDIC?
the Great Plains experienced intense dust storms
What was the dust bowl?
Embrace new ideas, trends, and styles
What is modernism?
Black Tuesday 1929
When was the start great depression? (OR stock market crash?)
Race Riots
massive oppression in Jim Crow South
Rise of the KKK due to social darwinism/eugenics
What were the PUSH factors of the Great Migration?
Created from monthly tax taken from wages
Saves your money with the government for retirement
What was the Social Security Administration (SSA)
Farmers depleting the soil of the area by overplanting and straining the soil by not rotating their crops, drought.
What was the main cause of the dust bowl?
Court case over teaching evolution in school
What was the Scopes Trial?
Americans running to a bank to pull their savings out before the bank closed/crashed.
What is a Bank Run?
Boom of African American music, poetry, literature, and art in Harlem, New York
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
What were the 3 main goals of the New Deal?
an 'Okie'
What was the nickname for migrants moving from the great plains to california?
Made the creation of products more efficient and products could be sold at a lower cost.
What is the assembly line?
the fear of economic competition among migrant workers led to...
What was a main cause of Mexican Repatriation?
Name one writer or artist from the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes (writer)
Louis Armstrong (musician)
Zora Neale Hurston (writer and folklorist)
Radio updates from the president to the American people on the progress of the New Deal
What were fireside chats?
West, Specifically California
Where were people moving during the Dust Bowl?
Government corruption, secretary of the interior selling oil rich land to private companies. Public disappointment.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Who were the two presidents during the Great Depression?
What music was popular throughout the 1920’s?
Jazz
Reaction to criticism of New Deal agencies and plans. Replace supreme court justices with ones picked by president.
What was the court packing plan? Why was it created?
Large amounts of sand and dirt blown over a city or space. Very destructive, caused suffocation and building damage.
What is a dust storm?