Everything Flashcards
(62 cards)
The Second KKK
White Anglo-Saxon protestant (wasp)
100% Americanism
1915 reemerges
Prominent in north and west
Anti-Catholic and antisemitic
1921 immigration
Temporary immigration restriction law (357,000 per year)
1924 immigration
Permanent immigration restriction law (150,000 per year)
1920s immigration
Unequal distribution of restricted immigrants
Racial hierarchy
Horace Kallen
Cultural pluralism
Harlem
The great migration
Capital of black America
Widespread poverty
The Harlem Renaissance
Vibrant, black, cultural community
Black values and black experience
Theme of protest
President during economic crash
Herbert Hoover
October 21, 1929
Golden anniversary of the festival of light
October 24, 1929
Black Thursday
Cause of economic crash
Heavy investment into the margin
80% of Rockefeller Fortune disappears
1932 economic crash
Economy hits rock bottom
1932 reconstruction financial corporation
The new deal
Created by FDR
Banking crisis during the depression
Bank holiday
Emergency banking act
Glass steagall act
New agencies during the depression
National industrial recovery act
National recovery administration
Civilian conservation Corps
Public works administration
Civil works administration
Agricultural adjustment act
The dust bowl
1935 Supreme Court
Supreme Court begins to invalidate the new deal
American Federation of labor
Organized unions
Congress of industrial organization
Organized unions
December 1936 strike
UAW, sit down strike
Worker stay in buildings to stop production
The second new deal
Focus on economic security
Work progress administration (WPA)
Built roads, airports, pools, pest control, and other public services
Other acts from the second new deal
Wagner act
Social Security act