History 2020 Final Test Flashcards
(27 cards)
3 events that left the US into the war:
- The German U boat
- The sinking of the Lusitania
- The Zimmerman telegram
The Zimmerman telegram
From germany»>Mexicans
The great migration
A new labor force for factories and mills in the north
The Spanish flu
Over 7 times the number of Americans killed in combat in WWI
Sacco and Vanzetti
A symbol of the nativism of the 1920s. Italian immigrants, convicts, executed
KKK
Anti Protestant (what they weren’t)
Scopes monkey trial
Fundamentalist religion and science(evolution)
Prosecution
William Jennings Bryan
Prohibition
18th amendment- speakeasies, bootleggers, gangsters
Flappers?
Smoke, makeup, drink, dance
Harlem Renaissance
The nations first self conscious black literary and artistic movement
NAACP
Focused on legal action
Consumer culture convinced us to
Spend money on things we desire rather than things we need
Features of a consumer culture
- Advertisements
- Installment buying
- Consumer goods
Most significant transportation
Automobiles
Lifestyle changes the car brought
- Ppl could live farther away
- Thousands of new jobs
- Dating habits changed
Buying stock “on margin”
Ppl only paid 10% or 20% down on the shares they bought
The bonus expeditionary force
A large gathering unemployed WWI veterans. They asked for an early payment of their pensions
The civilian conservation corps(ccc)
Provided jobs for unmarried young men
Federal deposit insurance corporation
Insurance on deposits in bank
The agricultural adjustment act
Reduce production
The Tennessee valley authority (TVA)
Electrical power, flood control, soil conservation
The dust bowl
Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, and Oklahoma
Eleanor Roosevelt
She lent her efforts to help women, blacks, and young people
