Unit 4 Exam - HUSH

Ford Model T

• Affordable

• universal can that put the world on wheels

• used assembly lines to be cheap

Consumer Revolution

• economic shift in the US

• consumer spending drove to economic growth

• increase on available goods

• mass production

Installment Buying

process of purchasing assets over time (pay for something over time rather than paying in full)

Modernism

movement in art that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience (break away from the past and find a new form of expression)

Scopes Trial

• court case that tested the constitutionality of teaching evolution in public schools

• 1925

• Scopes Monkey Trial

Ku Klux Klan

• White supremacist, far-right hate group

• founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the South

• America’s first terrorist group

Tulsa Race Massacre

• The result of a man being lynched in Tulsa, Oklahoma for bumping into a white girl

• Over 300 people were killed

Prohibition

• banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages

• 18th Amendment

18th Amendment

prohibited the making, transporting, and selling of alcoholic beverages

Red Scare

the fear that immigrants (mainly Russian) were communists, socialists, or anarchists who wanted to take over the government

Palmer Raids

a series of raids to arrest and deport immigrants who they believed were socialists, anarchists, or communists

Nativists

a group of Americans who feared that immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, Asia, and Mexico threatened American society

Immigration Laws (Asian Exclusion & Quota Systems)

• Asian Exclusion

  • restrict immigration based on race and class

  • limited the entry of Chinese immigrants and banned their naturalization

• Quota Systems

  • setting a limit on how many immigrants were allowed in the US

  • 3% annual quota on immigrants from each country

19th Amendment

granted women the right to vote

Flapper

a young women in the 1920’s who rebelled against traditional social norms

Women’s Sphere

• Women’s “proper sphere”

• the realm of domestic life, focused on childcare, housekeeping, and religion

Margaret Sanger

• pioneer in birth control movement

• advocated for women’s reproductive rights

• opened the first birth control clinic (plant parenthood)

Jazz

improveised and free-spirited came to be seen as symbolic of the era

Harlem Renaissance

literary and artistic movement celebrated and brought attention to unique aspects of black American culture

Great Migration

a period of mass migration from the rural south to urban areas in the north, Midwest, and west

Herbert Hoover

• implemented stronger protection for labor and substantially increased federal subsidies for agriculture

• Was the president during the beginning of the Great Depression

Black Tuesday

the day the stock market crashed in 1929

Speculation

the act of purchasing assets with the exception of making a profit from their future value

Great Depression

• a severe global economic downturn that lasted from 1929 to 1939

• high unemployment and poverty

• the result of the stock market crashing and everyone pulling money out of the banks all at once

Describe the popular culture of the 1920s. Why was this decade referred to as the “Roaring 20’s”?

• economic prosperity

• rapid social and cultural change (rebellion)

• people gained an optimistic mindset after WW1

How did new social and scientific trends create divisions within the country?

• many wanted to keep the tradition (referring to the teachings of the Bible)

• others wanted to progress with science

• Created heated debates Scopes Monkey Trial

What caused new nativity fears in the U.S. and what was the outcome of these fears?

• The first Red Scare

  • Russian Revolution

• They believed anarchists, socialist, and communist immigrants would try to take over the government

• Believed immigrants would take jobs

Describe the changing role of women in the 1920s.

• Pink collar jobs (teaching jobs/office assistants)

• began to venture outside of the “women’s sphere” into the “public sphere”

Analyze the importance of the Harlem Renaissance in American culture.

• it was a literary and artistic movement

• created jazz

• gave African American writers and artists the ability to gain control of black representation of Black culture

How did the federal government and the American public respond to immigration in the 20s?

• They began to limit the amount of immigrants allowed in the country

  • Emergency Quota Act

• The public began discriminating against immigrants

  • Asian Exclusion

How did immigration change since the founding of our country and identify specific push and pull factors that have encouraged migration to the United States.

• America had been a place for immigrants to seek refuge or have a new start

• Americans began to see immigrants as people who wanted to take over their government and jobs

  • Red Scare influence

  • increase of immigrants in labor jobs and later in factory jobs

What factors contributed to the Great Depression?

• buying on credit

  • people were buying more than their wages on credit and creating an increasing amount of debt

• stock market

  • since people had large debts they needed a way to pay it off so they invested in the stock market

• Bank runs

  • when the stock market crashed, since everyone had money in it they all tried pulling out money at the same time which drained the banks leaving no money in the banks