Chapter 20 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Henry ford
Industrialist and founder of ford motor company.
Introduced model t
How did the 1920’s illustrate the conflict between traditional attitudes and new ideas
Traditional attitudes lived in small towns or farms. No electricity. Didn’t participate in consumer beliefs.
New ideas included movie theaters. Partying. Drinking gambling and dating behavior. Electricity
19th amendment
Gave men and women equal voting rights
Eliot Ness
Best known for his efforts in prohibition
Was head of untouchables
Dawes plan
Plan to loan money to Germany
Would help stabilize European economy
Al Capone
American gangster
Expanded bootlegging business providing alcohol during prohibition era
Speakeasies
Hidden sections that would illegally sell alcohol
Volstead act
Another phrase for the prohibition act that made it illegal to produce, import, export, distribute, or sell alcohol
18th amendment
Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol
Herbert Hoover
- Helped bring America back to a stable economy
- Brought down al Capone& other gangsters
- Canceled private oil leases
- Doubled veterans hospitals
- crowned for Saving our nation
Warren Harding
- 29th president
- promises America to an end to violence, radicalism, a strong economy, an independence from Europeans
Calvin Coolidge
-30th pres of US
-believed in
-government economy
- reduced taxation
- giving aid to private businesses
Policies
- lowered taxes
- cut spending
- reduced the burden of regulation
Explain the economic policies of Harding, Coolidge, & Hoover. Did the help or hurt the country
Hoover brought America to a stable economy again
Brought down al Capone and other gangsters
Harding promised an end to violence and radicalism
Coolidge cut taxes and lowered spending costs
Helped the country
Teapot done scandal
Aka oil reserve scandal or elk hills scandal
- bribery incident
Sacco Vanzetti case
Italian immigrants and anarchist
- robbed a shoe factory of $15000
- shot and killed two men (employees)
Found guilty with little evidence
17th amendment
Established direct election of US senators by popular vote
Edward hopper
Works of art reflected the loneliness and anonymity of urban life.
Lost generation
Writers of the 1920’s
The no longer had faith in the cultural guideposts of the Victorian era
- inspired people to search for new truths and fresh ways of expressing themselves
Louis Armstrong
Trumpet player
Unofficial ambassador of jazz
Legend of jazz
Marcus Garvey
Promoted the idea of universal black nationalism and organized “back to Africa” movement.
Wanted blacks and whites separate unlike Brooker t & du Boise
Jazz
A musical form based on improvisation
Langston Hughes
Most powerful black literary voice
- celebrated African American culture and life.
Scopes trial
Law making it illegal to teach Darwin’s theory in public schools because it clashed w the description of creation in the bible
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests of native born or established inhabitants against these of immigrants
