Roaring 20s (Ch 7) – Flashcards
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Roaring '20s who
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• social credit was created (buy now, pay later) • people involved in markets-shown in magazines, newspapers, med, etc. • power was in the hands of very few, elite businessmen who controlled wall street
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Roaring '20s what
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• a period of sustained economic prosperity • new technology invented (deodorant, electrical plugs, etc.) • dramatic social and political changes
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Roaring '20s when
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between 1920-29 national wealth more than doubled • is a phrase used to refer to the 1920s
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Roaring '20s significance
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characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge, dramatic social and political changes, economic prosperity
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Black Friday
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day when the stock markets crashed in the great depression October 28-29, 1929
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Herbert Hoover who
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• 31st President of the United States (1929-1933) • born to a Quaker family • republican • president during stock market crash
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Herbert Hoover inauguration
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March 4 1929-1933 inauguration day-Hoover won -promising for no government intervention
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Herbert Hoover loss of white house
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defeated in 1932 by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The Bonus Army who
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• popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups
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The Bonus Army what
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43,000 marchers who gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand cash-payment redemption
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the bonus army when
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rallied in 1932
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The Bonus Army where
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Washington, D.C.
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The Bonus Army significance
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rallied in 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption
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Charles Mitchell
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president of national city bank, invented marketing of mass stock and bonds to public (a huge success)
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Jimmy walker
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Mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932 demonstrated that more power was in hands of powerful wall street business men
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Friday march 22, 1929
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federal reserve board-looked at foundation of stock with borrowed money • Without borrowed money-the market would crash-the reserve board kept quite and scared many people
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essays overlap Fass and Larson
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evolutionary social changes in the 20s, primarily focusing on youth age
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Sex and Youth in the Jazz Age Paula S. Fass
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youth caused evolutionary social changes in the 1920s looks at context of college youth their actions were radical (in the sense of women demanding equality, erotic love, etc.) but also very traditional and victorian (constrained by moral codes, kept ideas of marriage)
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Fundamentalist Battle Modernism in the Roaring Twenties Edward J. Larson
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examine culture/religion/science wars modernist vs. fundamentalist modernist = many progressives, liberal protestants, allowed science to be mixed with religion, accused of secularizing
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modernist people
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many progressives, liberal protestants, etc. allowed science to be mixed with religion, accused of secularizing
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modernist beliefs
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allowed science to be mixed with religion, accused of secularizing
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fundamentalist
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opposed liberal protestants and modernists, no room for negotiation, do not accept compromise
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Economy in 1920s
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laissez faire Free, unregulated capitalism
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Historical context of 1920s
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Shadid World War I booming wartime industries and economic boom
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President in 1920s
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Pres. Harding
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Pres. Harding
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Good-looking did not try to change anything used handsome daredevil looks to one female votes left policy and regulation to cabinet
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Terrain of United States population 1920s
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More urban versus rural
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Global involvement in 1920s
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United States leadership in the world despite failure of league of Nations
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Harlem Renaissance location
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Cultural intellectual event and urban cities
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Harlem Renaissance
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Cultural event of flowering cultural awareness
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Example from Harlem Renaissance
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Locke Wrote The new Negro
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Marcus Garvey belief
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No chance for blacks in America believe the US white prominence started back to Africa movement Wanted blacks to move back to Africa
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Marcus Garvey context
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Firm foundation for radical black movement in the 1960s
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Intellectual curiosity toward black culture in Harlem Renaissance
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Set foundation for breakdown of racial barriers
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Media and mass culture
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Influenced new social behaviors suggested playfulness era and affected thoughts of gender roles and social relations
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Essay one by Paula fass "sex and jazz age"
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New social behaviors and playfulness in the era influenced by media and mass culture which affected thoughts of gender roles and social relations People could be playful to a limit but were halted by society
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1920s as an era of anxiety
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Sedition laws of war translate to assault on immigrants and perceived radicals, racial minorities face backlash
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Red scare dates
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1919-1920
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Discrimination against immigrants reason
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Tension toward other cultures building before World War I after the war years became exemplified towards minorities and public attention was captured from the scares of World War I
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Date of national origins act
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1924
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National origins act
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Strict limitations of certain European immigrants and Japanese banned from immigrating to USA
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Mitchell Palmer
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Given the presidential authority to investigate perceived socialist resulted in deportation of thousands of perceived radicals
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Ku Klux Klan reinvention location
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No longer only southern across the country
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Ku Klux Klan reinvention
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Nativist expand to include Catholics and Jews in response to wars and social disorder
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Political klu klux klan
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Politically influential social club
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Three racial instincts and definition of America according to kkk
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Patriotism, white race must be supreme, Protestantism must be supreme
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Ammie semple McPherson church
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Foursquare Church
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Ammie semple McPherson
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Religious leader and powerful woman evangelist who created the first mega church Spoke to fundamentalist to get back to real bridge to heaven
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Ammie semple McPherson media
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Used media technology to spread word and preach
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Example of media and mass culture in 1920s
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"It" with Clara bow
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Essay 2
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History perceives the scoop trial is huge but did not have many followers and fact mainstream America apeeled the fundamentalist
