The Jazz Age Flashcards
(15 cards)
The Red Scare
Fear of Communism spreading and time of distrust and discrimination of immigrants
Harding (Normalcy)
Believed in the return to normalcy lower taxes, isolationism, less regulation
Coolidge (Pro Business)
Lowered taxes and helped business
What problems did
immigrants face? (1920’s)
Distrust and discrimination
Sacco and Vanzetti
two Italian immigrants found guilty of robbery and murder mainly because they were foreigners and anarchists
Communism
NO PRIVATE PROPERTY ALL PROPERTY AND WEALTH HELD IN COMMON
Mitchell Palmer
Attorney general deported, fined and imprisoned communist
Flappers
Women that dressed differently, had their own jobs were more independent, broke with social rules
How did life Change for
Women
Many worked, vote, more equality
18th Amendment
Prohibited the making selling of alcohol
Bootleggers
Smuggled illegal alcohol in to the country
Jazz
Combination of ragtime and blues most popular form of music in the 20’s symbolized how people behaving improvisation
Harlem Renaissance
Time of artistic growth in Harlem new York jazz, poetry, writing
National Origins Act
Limited the amount of immigrants from south eastern Europe
What factors helped the economy of
the 1920’ grow
Automobile, Credit Advertisement radio consumerism
