social studies-the roaring 20's
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- recession
- economic slump
- sabotage
- the secret destruction of property or work interference
- fad
- an activity or fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short amount of time
- automobile
- four million americans owed their jobs to the auto, be it directly or indirectly. suburbs were also formed as a result.
- anarchists
- people who are against organized government
- montpeliar, vermont (slides)
- calvin coolidge was sworn in by his father, a native of vermont
- scopes trial
- trail against a school teacher in TN for teaching the theory of evolution, which was illigal and also condemned by many churches. john scopes was arrested and fined. was called the monkey trial, was the new ideas Vs. old ideas.
- ford museum (slides)
- model t car had a crank and people's arms got broken
- kellogg-briand pact
- a treaty that outlawed war
- warren g. harding
- the president after wilson who had the slogan of 'back to normalcy'. he made many of his friends from ohio cabinet members. they became known as the ohio gang. they saw the positions of power ways to make themselves rich, and many scandal ensued. harding died of a heart attack and left coolidge with the presidency.
- calvin coolidge
- was sworn in by his father in vermont.he was not talkative, and was pro-business. he forced all of the corrupt cabinet members to resign.
- orange, new jersey (slides)
- thomas edison made the first sound studio called a black mariah*
- movie theaters were the first place to have
- air conditioners
- maui, hawaii (slides)
- charles lindburg's grave
- harding administration
- had many scandals
- company unions
- labor organizations that were controlled by management
- deported
- expelled from the country
- sinclair lewis
- born in sauk center and wrote mainstreet which was about small town life and how narrow-minded and dull small town people were. he also wrote babbit-which was a word for a smug businessman who wasn't interested in the arts.
- call letters
- to west of mississippi-k, east of missippi-start with w
- zora neale hurston
- writer- 'their eyes were watching god' about an african american woman's life told through flashback
- perils of prosperity
- production going down and people in debt, unions suffered from strikes, government quit backing unions, police went on strike in boston, businesses and corporations started forming unions
- ernest hemingway
- was born in chicago and was part of the lost generation. he was an expatriate and moved to paris. he wrote 'a farewell to arms' about an ambulence driver who becomes disgusted with war.wrote 'the sun also rises' about expatriate americans in europe.
- red scare
- foreigners tried to sabotage america, american people thought that the strikes were a revolution for communism, anarchists planned the assasinations of major american leaders
- indianapolis, indiana (slides)
- track called brickyard-indy 500
- henry ford
- brought the automobile to the u.s. he made the model t, which only came in black. he lost many customers when general motors came out with a car that came in a variety of colors and forced ford to become more flexable.
- carrie nation
- head of women's christian temperance union
- f. scott fitzgerald
- born in st.paul and wrote 'the great gatsby' which was about rich young party goers who can't find happiness.
- bull market
- period of increased stock trading and the rising of stock prices
- flappers
- womne who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting
- sacco & vanzetti
- were charged with murder and robbery, they were found guilty by the prejudiced courts. trial showed that americans feared immigrants
- bootleggers
- people who smugged alcohol into the u.s. they were so named because they sometimes hid the alcohol in their boots.
- election of 1928
- herbert hoover won
- prohibition
- also called the 'noble experiment', prohibition was the ban of making, transporting and selling of alcohol, but not drinking it.
- started the movie industry
- thomas edison
- jazz
- an african american-invented music that was born in new orleans
- langston huges
- an african american poet who wrote during the harlem renaissance who encouraged other blacks to be proud of their heritage and protested violence and racism.
- prohibition lasted
- from 1920 to 1933 *
- suburb
- a community located outside the city
- nativism
- anti-foreign feeling
- marcus garvey
- the 'black moses' he believed that blacks couldn't rely on white people to ensure the betterment of their lives. he started the universal negro improvement association. he also started the back to africa movement. garvey tried to make african americans proud of their roots.
- scott joplin
- ragtime music-movie the sting *
- expatriates
- people who leave their country to live in a foreign land
- communism
- an economic system in which all weath and property are owned by the community as a whole
- fairbanks, alaska (slides)
- the railroad car that warren g. harding died in
- stocks
- shares of ownership
- jones act
- granted pureto ricans american citizenship, many were poor so they moved to america
- heroes of the 20's
- jack dempsey (boxer), bill tilden (tennis), helen wills (tennis), bobby jones (golf), harold red grange (the galloping ghost, football). gertrude ederle- first woman to swim the english channel at age 19, babe ruth (baseball), charles lindburg (flying)
- new klan
- against anyone who wasn't WASP - white, anglo, saxon, protestant. supported immigration cuts, had large membership due to fear of foreigners and thus had lots of political power. membership dropped after it was found out that some of the higher-ups had been stealing money from members.
- jane addams
- head of women's international league for peace, she called for disarmament in the u.s and europe
- installment buying
- buying on credit
- repeal
- canellation
- the charleston
- a dance that was a fad in the 20's
- louis armstrong
- given credit for helping create jazz
- alice paul
- a leading sufferagette who pointed out that though women could vote, they did not have right that were equal to men's. she proposed and fought for the equal rights amendment, that stated 'equality of right under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex.'
- eugene o'neil
- playwright was known for his pessimism and tradgedy. won a nobel prize for literature in 1936.
- disarmament
- reduction of arms and weapons of war
- mempis, tennasee (slides)
- house of blues-b.b. king, w.c. handy-elvis presley=sun studio-roy orbison
- quota system
- allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the united states. it favored immigrants from northern europe, particularly britain.
- teapot dome scandal
- a scandal that included cabinet members from the harding administration who were bribed by oil exacutives and the cabinet member albert fall leased them the land in wyoming
- edna st.vincent millay
- poet who's verses reflected the state of mind in the 1920's
- camton, ohio (slides)
- football hall of fame- duluth eskimos
- harlem renaissance
- a rebirth of african american culture mainly in new york,
- women got the right to vote by this amandment and year
- 19th amendment, 1920
- thomas edison
- invented stock tickers
- first talkie
- the jazz singer-1927