1920s Flashcards
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manufacturing process in which individual parts of a larger product are put together in a specific order. Invented by Henry Ford
Assembly line
Because of the war, economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories increased in the 1920s
Industry
a chain of department stores that grew rapidly. Like Amazon because they mailed goods.
Sears, Roebuck and Co
arrangement in which the consumer buys something now with borrowed money and pays off the loan over time
credit
the rate of automobile ownership increased from one car per 15 Americans to one per five. While the auto industry remains the iconic example, other industries in mass-production goods followed a similar trajectory during the Roaring ’20s. So, the 1920s were a great time to be in this class.
Middle class-
short skirts, short hair, noticeable makeup, and fun-loving attitude—represented a new freedom for women. Smaller families so more time for fun. Caused by women’s suffrage.
Modern woman
were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
Flapper
this was the booming and roped in millions of new investors, many of whom bought this on margin. The 1920s also witnessed a larger bubble in all kinds of credit - on cars, homes, and new appliances like refrigerators. In the years after the 1929 crash, the credit-based economy fell apart.
Stock market-
Beginning during World War I, the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to cities in the North and Midwest in order to take jobs in industry
Great Migration-
a period of creativity among African American artists, writers, and musicians centered in Harlem during the 1920s
Harlem Renaissance
was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which this music was popular and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.
Jazz
the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.
Prohibition
sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933)
Speakeasy
is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverage
Temperance-
were convicted of a robbery and two murders in Massachusetts in the early 1920s and sentenced to death. Were born in Italy but had been living in the United States for years when they were tried.
Red Scare-lasting from 1919 to 1920, a campaign launched by the federal government to arrest communists and other radicals who promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government
Sacco and Vanzetti (radicalism)
lasting from 1919 to 1920, a campaign launched by the federal government to arrest communists and other radicals who promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government
Red Scare
against AA’s, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants. Was revived in 1920s
Ku Klux Klan
The trial of a high school teacher in Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution in violation of state law.
Scopes Trial
President in 1920s
Calvin Coolidge
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting 60 home runs
Babe Ruth
was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession.
Bobby Jones
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
A twentieth-century American author known for his short stories and for his novels, including The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise .
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Ernest Hemingway
