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1920's & 1930's
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Prohibition | Banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol. |
| Harlem Renaissance | An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated their traditions and culture. At this time arts, music, and literature flourished. take pride in themselves and their culture for one of the first times. |
| Flappers | young women known for their energetic freedom, embracing a lifestyle viewed by many at the time as outrageous. They broke away from the “traditional” view of women at that time. |
| Immigration Quotas | Restricting immigration numbers (limit on quantity).- Example -Chinese Exclusion Act- 1882 and Emergency Quota Act 1921 |
| Slang | Informal vocabulary |
| Consumerism | New patterns of consumer buying, or purchasing consumer goods like radios, cars, vacuums, beauty products or clothing. |
| The Dust Bowl | a series of droughts combined with non-sustainable agricultural practices led to devastating dust storms, famine, diseases and deaths related to breathing dust. |
| Causes of the Great Depression | Mass production of consumer goods, buying on margin, an overextension of credit/ loans, dust bowl, trade restrictions, bank runs |
| Effects of the Great Depression | Bank Failures- people lost their savings. Business failures- demand for goods decreased, prices fell and businesses closed. Unemployment- as businesses and banks failed, companies were forced to shut their doors |
| Effects of the Great Depression | Unemployment rate has reached as high as 25%. Foreclosures- unemployed workers became unable to pay their mortgages, leading homes to go into foreclosure. Farmers impacted by the dust bowl also went into foreclosure. Thousands are homeless. |
| Buying on Margin | Getting a loan from your stock brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more stocks than you can buy with your available money. |
| Black Tuesday | Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Black Tuesday) 🡪 Business owners and others who invested in the stock market lost their money |
| Why were the 1920’s called “Roaring”? | economic boom (growth), social changes (fashion music, social freedoms), and cultural explosions (rise of jazz music, flapper culture, The Harlem Renaissance, growth of media like movies and radio). |
| Significance of the Scopes Trial | The 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution (the area wanted the religious theory of creation to be taught) in a Tennessee public school- he was found guilty- fined 100$. |
| Significance of the Scopes Trial | He was teaching people about evolution from monkeys. People in the area believed in the biblical creation of man (Adam and Eve) Traditional values Vs. science |
| The Red Scare, who was impacted? | Fear of communism (a form of government) spreading to the U.S. after the communist revolution in Russia. - Immigrants were impacted |
| Social Security | The 1935 Social Security Act was a combination of public assistance and insurance. The law had three main parts: (1) It provided old-age insurance, paid by a tax on both the employer and employee while the employee was working. |
| Social Security | (2) It provided unemployment insurance for workers, paid by employers. (3) It gave assistance to dependent children and to the elderly, ill, and handicapped. |
| Hoover response to Depression | President Hoover believed in “rugged individualism.” This meant the American people were “tough” and shouldn't need the government to assist them. |
| Hoover response to Depression | “Trickle down” meant President Hoover planned to help stimulate the economy by giving money to the businesses, the money would eventually flow down to the individual citizens. |
| Hoover response to Depression | Americans disliked President Hoover because his actions did not do enough to help the American people. The little amount of help that Hoover provided for the American people caused him to fall out of favor. |
| FDR response to Depression | banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare |
| FDR response to Depression | Recovery was aimed at fixing the economy and ending the Depression. Reform was President Roosevelt's objective of finding the sources of the Depression and creating a plan so that it would never happen again. |
| Impact of The New Deal | New Deal- A series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President FDR that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. |
| did it fix the Depression? | New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the events of the depression. In the long run, New Deal programs set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social affairs of the nation. |
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