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1920-1930 Flashcards

1
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Car Ripple Effective

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Jobs, gas stations, fast food, restaurants, hotels, restaurants shops, auto shops.

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2
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First Reliable Car

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Model T

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Who Built the Model T

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Henry Ford

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4
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Average Increase of Stock Market

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8%

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5
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Installment Buying

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Certain amount of money paid monthly

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6
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Bull Market

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Stock market goes up

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7
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Bear Market

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Stock market goes down

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8
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When Did the Stock Market Crash

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October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday)

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9
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Three Radio Stations

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ABC, CBS, NBC

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10
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First Movies

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In France, silent and in black and white

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11
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Charlie Chaplin

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King of Silent films

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12
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First Color Movie

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Wizard of Oz

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First Animated Movie

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Snow White

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14
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Al Capone (Scarface)

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Grew up in Chicago, gangster. Sold alcohol and became most wanted. Went to jail for 12 years for tax evasion.

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15
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Talkies

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Movies with Sound

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16
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Fad

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Short trend

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17
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1920-1930 Fads

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Crossword puzzles, flagpole sitting, dance marathons

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18
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Flappers

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Teens in short dresses. Premarital sex, alcohol, drugs

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19
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Jazz

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Upbeat music originated on burnout street New Orleans

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20
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Louie Armstrong

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Best jazz musician of all time. Known for its a wonderful world

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21
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Charles Lindbergh

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First human to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean, New York to Paris

22
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Spirit of Saint Louis

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Charles’ plane

23
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18th Ammendment

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Prohibition

24
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Bootlegger

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Expel who sold beer

25
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Speakeasies

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Where people sold alcohol

26
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Moonshine

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Home made alcohol

27
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Creationism

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God created humans

28
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Evolution

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Humans evolved from apes

29
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Scopes Monkey Trial

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Taught evolution in Tennessee- banned. Found guilty-public schools don’t teach religion

30
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When was the Great Depression

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1929-1938

31
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Causes of the Great Depression

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Stock market crash, unemployment rates hit 33%, increased homelessness, banks ran out of money

32
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Great Depression Solutions

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If stock market drops 6%, it switches off. Every bank is FDIC insured-government pays the people if the bank doesn’t have the money

33
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Great Depression Solutions

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If the stock market drops 6%, it gets turned off. All banks are FDIC insured, money comes from government if not from banks

34
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Hoover Ville

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Where homeless people were

35
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Herbert Hoover

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President during the Great Depression, didn’t do anything

36
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Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)

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New deal-create jobs.Had polio, No term limit

37
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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Brains behind FDR, March of Dime-cure polio, president of Red Cross

38
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Brain Trust

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50 men were hired in the White House- how to end the Great Depression

39
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Bobby Jones

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Golf player

40
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Famous Golf Courses

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Agusta Georgia, British open

41
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Dorothea Linge

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Famous photographer in the 1930s. Migrant worker

42
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John Steinbeck

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Wrote “Grapes of Wrath” and “Of mice and men”- migrant workers during the Great Depression

43
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Babe Ruth

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Famous baseball player for home runs. Played for the Boston red socks and New York Yankees

44
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Jim Thorpe

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Full blooded American, first to win gold metal, won two gold metals, taken away because he lied about being a professional

45
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Harlem Renaissance

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New York City, where African Americans moved, culture, Came from south because of Jim Crow laws

46
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Dust

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Terrible drought where everything grows (Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas). Forced people to move and pick where they could find

47
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Route 66

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Main drags across the country (6 hours)

48
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Women’s Right to vote

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1920

49
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Fireside Chars

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Every Thursday, FDR gave long pep talk

50
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American Gothic

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Famous Painting

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