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15 Cards in this Set
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consumer goods |
products bought for personal use- cars, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners |
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The Roaring Twenties |
1920 U.S. Cars replaced the horse and buggy, assembly lines, women began working outside of the home |
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credit |
an arrangement in which the consumer buys something now with borrowed money and pays off the loan over time |
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Great Migration |
WWI when many African Americans left the farms and moved to the cities to take factory jobs. |
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Harlem Renaissance |
1920's Rebirth of African American culture- artists, poets, writers |
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The Jazz Age |
1920's Jazz clubs, very popular music in clubs Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington |
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Red Scare |
1919-1920 radicalism (a point of view favoring extreme change in social or economic structures sometimes through violent revolution) Red means communist, fear of Communists taking over the US |
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Revival of the Ku Klux Klan |
1920's the Klan had 3-4 million members controlled state legislature in 4 states, many violent acts |
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The Great Depression |
Thursday October 24 1929 began by losing 30 billion dollars in one day Millions of people starve and are jobless/homeless |
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Depression (not meaning sad) |
a period when economic activity decreases and many people do not have jobs |
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The New Deal |
Theodore Roosevelt created this to end The Great Depression It created jobs, beginning of public welfare and social security, Civilian corps Holland Football Stadium in Auburn, NY was built as a result (google it) |
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pension |
Began with the Great depression, where they realized that old retired people need to get money on a monthly basis (aka Social Security) |
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The New Deal built |
Dams, bridges, public roads, Tennessee Valley Authority, Banking Reform - FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (insurance money you left in bank) Many people lost whatever they had in the bank during the Great depression as the banks were not insured |
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WPA |
Hired artists to paint murals, built public parks, bridges, public buildings all part of putting people to work |
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Government funds |
This is the first time in U.S. History where American attitudes changed to believe that that government has a responsibility to help those in need |
