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1.
Return
to Normalcy |
Warren G. Harding: Takes US back to isolation after WW1, re-imposes
tariffs and big business friendly policies. |
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2.
African
American Migration |
Large #’s of African Americans migrate from South to northern
cities, brining African American culture with them. |
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3.
Teapot
Dome |
Albert Fall, sec of Interior gave away leases to oil companies.
First Cabinet minister jailed
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4.
Uneven
prosperity |
20’s saw a loss of $ for farmers, minorities and working class. |
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5.
Big
Bull Market |
Booming stock market in the 20’s creates a market of speculation. |
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6.
Mass
Consumption Culture |
·
Installment buying
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New
products
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Real Estate Boom
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Radio, Movies, Advertising and cultural homogenization
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7.
Sacco
and Vanzetti |
Bartholomew Vendetta was arrested with Nicola Sacco on charges of
murder and convicted 1921. Convicted and executed despite minimal
evidence, example of racism toward Italians at the time. |
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8.
Rise of
the Ku Klux Klan |
Klan reinvents itself in the 1920’s. Based on movie Birth of a
Nation. Symptomatic of problems w/immigrants and expanding minority
rights. |
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9.
Prohibition |
18th amendment. Enforce no sale or consumption of
alcohol. Leads to growth of organized crime and realization that it
is difficult to enforce laws that regulate behavior people wish to
do. |
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10.
Scopes
Trial |
1925 pitted William Jennings Bryan against Clarence Darrow in an
American court case that tested a law passed on March 13, 1925,
forbidding the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools.
Symptomatic of the clash between traditional and new culture.
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11.
Flappers |
Refers to a young woman from the
1920s that would dress unconventionally and flaunt her disdain for
"decent" behavior. The flapper represented a new breed of woman,
unafraid to wear cosmetics and provocative clothing or to be seen
smoking or drinking alcoholic beverages |
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12.
Modern
Literature |
Fitzgerald, Catha, Hemingway-change to Modern literature that looks
for “truth.” |
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13.
Harlem
Renaissance |
Flowering of African American Culture:
Duke Ellington (Swing), Langston Hughes (Poet), Bessie Smith (Jazz)
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