Topic 5 pt 2- jazz age

us history

Harding’s campaign slogan

Return to Normalcy

Voting rights

Women could vote, election results on radio

Postwar recession

slow production, unemployment, fewer women in the workforce

great migration

African americans moved up north, competing for jobs caused racial tensions

chicago race riots

1919, lasted for 13 days

tulsa race massacre

white people with airplanes bomb the richest black town

inflation

scarcity causes prices to raise and wages don’t match

labor strikes

20% of workers go on strike, leading to fear of radicals

mass production

rapid manufacturing of identical products

henry ford

affordable cars, double wages, weekend, less work hours

assembly line

boosted efficiency, reduced cost

impact of automobile

growth in complementary industries, decline in railroads, highways and suburbs expand

new goods

radios, household products, cosmetics, appliances

credit

buy now, pay later fueled economic growth

consumer revolution

new affordable goods available

radio industry

affects wood and copper

harding administration

laissez faire, lower taxes (supply-side economics)

teapot dome scandal

the secretary of the interior, albert fall takes bribes and is the first cabinet member to go to prison

urban

modernism, secular values, emphasized education

rural

traditionalism, religious fundamentalism

scopes trial

debate over teaching evolution in schools (evolution lost)

red scare

fear of communism led to arrests, deportations, and mob violence

sacco and vanzetti case

italian immigrants executed despite weak evidence

emergency quota act (1921)

3% limit based on 1910 census

national origins act (1924)

2% limit based on 1890 census

what groups did the emergency quota act and national origins act target?

southern and eastern europeans

ku klux clan is back, who did they target?

immigrants, jews, catholics

prohibition

18th amendment, banned alcohol production and sale

speakeasies

illegal bars

organized crime

violence and bribery increased

which amendment repealed the 18th amendment

flappers

represented new freedom and challenged social norms

media heroes

babe ruth, jack dempsey

harlem renaissance

artistic and political awakening in african american culture

key figures in the harlem renaissance

louis armstrong, duke ellington, langston hughes

naacp

primary focus was lobbying public officials and working through the court system

lost generation writers

discontent in rising consumerism in the us

great gatsby

old vs new money

hemingway

minimalist writing

19th amendment

gave women the right to vote

alice paul

wanted complete equality with men and pushed for the equal rights movement

modernism v. traditionalism

edward hooper and georgia okeefe