20s, Great Depression, New Deal

Women during the Roaring 20s

• 19th Amendment

• Freedom in dress and morality

• College, working

• Flappers

• Dancing

Flappers

Smoked, drank, wore makeup, sleeveless dresses, short skirts

Prohibition

• National ban on selling alcohol

• 18th Amendment

Prohibition leads to

growth in organized crime, speakeasies, smuggling

Reason for prohibition’s end

too costly to enforce

21st Amendment

ended prohibition

Al Capone

Big-time Chicago mobster and bootlegger, jailed for tax evasion

Sacco and Vanzetti

Anarchists, sentenced to death for possibly committing murder, case shows nativism

nativism

anti-immigrant sentiment

Scopes Monkey Trial

Court case over teaching Evolution in schools

Charles Lindbergh

First transatlantic flight, flew from NY to Paris

Harlem Renaissance

“New Negro” Movement, cultural movement post-Great Migration, Black art and literature, jazz, performed mainly for white audiences

“New Negro” Movement

refusal to quietly submit to Jim Crow

The “Lost Generation”

criticized wealthy’s decadent lifestyle, sough an authentic life

racism during the Roaring 20s

KKK resurgence, targeted Jews and Catholics too

Jazz

developed in New Orleans, improvisation is important

Late 1920s stock market soars

buying stocks

Stock Market Crash of 1929

banks weakened, banks lent money, banks invested money to market, caused by too much borrowing of money, overproduction, and high tariffs

bank runs

people withdraw their money from banks

Black Tuesday

Oct. 29,1929 - steepest dive of stock market

Hoover

Rugged individualism, Hoover Dam, Emergency Relief and Construction Act, tried to fix economy

Three Rs

Relief, Recovery, Reform

Relief

immediate need

Recovery

stimulate economy

Reform

Prevent future economic crises

Civilian Conservation Corps

Young men can work on environmental projects

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

paid by government to lower production to increase prices, deemed unconstitutional

National Industrial Recovery Act

helped laborers and trade unions, deemed unconstitutional

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

insured bank deposits

Works Progress Administration

public works programs for employment

Social Security Act

benefits for unemployed and dependents

Tennessee Valley Authority Act

dams and economic development

Federal Writers Project (#1)

wrote guide books

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill

launched by Roosevelt to increase justices in Supreme Court to approve more New Deals, rejected by Congress

end of New Deal

“The Roosevelt Recession”, start of ww2