1920s Culture
Women who challenged traditional societal standards as a result of the Victorian era often wore bobbed hair, heavy makeup, and participated in "unladylike" behaviors.
What are flappers?
The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. Sacco and Vanzetti did not appreciate.
What is nativism?
Overinflated values caused by overinvestment in the stock market caused a massive boom then a catastrophic bust in October.
What was the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Understandably upset with President Hoover, many Americans who were forced out of their homes (un)affectionately referred to the new communities they lived in as this.
What are Hoovervilles?
Following Herbert Hoover's loss in the 1932 election, this overwhelmingly popular Democratic figure took office, promising America a "New Deal."
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, art, literature, fashion, and politics based in a neighborhood in New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. Mind yours and I'll mind mine!
What is isolationism?
Non-sustainable farming practices, overproduction, and no wind barriers lead to this man-made ecological disaster in the American prairies.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Faced with the crushing reality of the Great Depression, many people attended movie theaters, listened to the radio shows, or read book as a form of this.
What is escapism?
To combat high poverty levels in elderly Americans, this act was passed to provide a continuous income to retired Americans 65 years or older.
What is the Social Security Act?
The 18th Amendment based on the Temperance Movement that banned transportation, selling/buying, and consumption of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, leading to publicly-owned property and everyone is paid as equally as possible. It makes the color red seem scary.
What is communism?
Groups of people got frightened as a result of the stock market crash, leading to large groups of people participating in these, which lead to this. (2 answers)
What was bank runs; bank failures?
Charities opened soup kitchens were people could get food but the number of people were overwhelming at times, leading to queues outside of kitchens, also known as these.
What are breadlines?
The banking system needed to build trust with the American people, which lead to this being established which insures money held in the bank to a specific sum.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
As a direct result of Prohibition, many people took to this to make alcohol and these to consume it! (2 answers)
What is bootlegging; speakeasies?
A political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy. Boo to capitalism!
What is anarchism?
To try and generate money for the economy and reduce competition for American farmers, President Hoover signed this, which completely backfired.
What was the Hawley-Smoot/Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
WWI veterans and their families, upset about not receiving a promised cash sum as a result of enlisting in the military, formed this to march on Washington.
What is the Bonus Army?
This woman used her position to bring attention to issues like civil rights, the need for low-income housing, and the hardships faced by young unemployed Americans. What a First Lady!
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Infamous premeditated murder of 7 members of the Chicago North Side Gang by Al Capone's Chicago Outfit, named for the holiday on which it occurred.
What was Saint Valentine's Day Massacre?
Based on ethnicity or race, it is the prejudice, discrimination, and/or antagonism that lead to the return of the KKK.
This lead to many people buying things like luxury goods that they didn't need, including to the point of debt, at which point, they began buying things on credit.
What is consumerism?
Due to the Dust Bowl and unlivable conditions, Native Americans out in the midwest were permitted to do this.
What is leave reservations?
This woman, first ever to be a part of a Presidential Cabinet, was FDR's Sec. of Labor and worked on the Fair Labor Standards Acts, which created things like the minimum wage and child labor standards.
Who is Frances Perkins?