Red Scare
Briefly describe Communism.
Idea: everything is equal, no private property.
Reality: no private property, limited free will, strong government
What was the 18th amendment to the Constitution.
Prohibition.
What are the 2 popular nicknames of the 1920s?
Jazz Age
Roaring 20s
What year did the stock market crash, beginning the period known as the Great Depression?
1929.
What was the Dust Bowl?
Describes the bad soil in the Midwest that led to a great drought during the Depression.
Opposite of capitalism, afraid of losing liberty.
List at least 2 reasons why prohibition was introduced.
Moral reasons
Campaigns
WW1
Already existed in many states
Describe consumer economy.
Everyone thinks they need more stuff, advertising convinces them so. People keep buying and buying even when they have no money-buying on credit.
What is black Tuesday?
October 29, 1929.
The day the stock market crashed.
What was Black Sunday?
Storms of sand and dust so thick the sky was black.
Define the Red Scare.
Fear of communism that resulted in being isolationist and xenophobic.
What is a speakeasy?
An illegal and secret bar that sprang up during Prohibition. You needed a passcode to enter.
Describe the Harlem Renaissance.
African American culture of jazz took off because of Speakeasies-culture revolution. Gave voice to the African American experience.
How does the stock market work?
Buy a share of a company and hope it increases value. Trade shares in order to make money. If company value decreases so does your share and you lose money.
What were the three R’s (the purpose) of the New Deal we discussed in class? List and describe.
Relief-help the individual
Recovery-help the economy
Reform-make sure this never happens again
Explain what life would have been like for immigrants in the 1920s.
Prejudice, discrimination. KKK.
What is bootlegging?
Smuggling illegal alcohol in from other countries.
Describe the Lost Generation.
A generation of American authors who disliked what was going on in America at the time and so relocated to Paris and wrote poems and literature.
Explain the chain of events that led to the stock market crash.
People buying stocks on credit and businesses inflating stock prices. Government claiming everything was okay but eventually there were too many people trying to sell their stocks and not enough people buying. This led to stocks becoming worth far less and people losing their money.
Describe three key political differences between Hoover and FDR.
Conservative vs Democratic
Reluctant to step in vs willing to experiment
Politically savvy vs not so much
Tell the story of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Two radicals accused of a robbery, sentenced and convicted without enough proof. This was because of the red scare-they were foreign, had escaped the draft, and were radical. Someone else admitted to doing it and they were still executed.
1. Moonshine
2. Speakeasies
3. Bootlegging
4. Organized Crime
What were some major changes for women in the 1920s?
Vote
Worked outside home
More going to college
Flappers
Explain the “domino effect” of the Great Depression-how did the stock market crash affect every American, regardless of if they traded in the market or not?
Stock market-banks closing-losing life savings-companies can’t pay workers so they are laid off-consumers can’t buy products so more layoffs and company shut downs-everyone is poor.
What were 3 outcomes of the New Deal?
Government became responsible for citizens
Agricultural rescue
Political revitalization