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42 Cards in this Set
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Flappers
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nickname for American women who symbolized the freedom and independence through shorter hemlines, bobbed hair and cigarettes
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Speakeasies
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bars that operated illegally during the time of Prohibition
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Charles Lindbergh
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flew from New York to Paris in one flight
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Harlem Renaissance
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was a cultral movement that took place from 1920-1930
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Jazz & Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington
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-combined West African rhythms, African Americans work songs and spirituals,and European harmonies
-Armstrong was a famous horn player of Jazz -Ellington was a composer, pianist & big band leader |
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Emergence of National Sports & Sports Heroes
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-Bobby jones was a golf player who almost won every golf championship
-Bill Tilden and Helen Wills were famous tennis players -Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel -Jack Dempsey reigned as world heavyweight boxing champion -Babe Ruth set a home run record in baseball |
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Marcus Garvey
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Was an African American leader, publisher, and journalist
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Mass Culture
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common culture experienced by a large number of people
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Al Jolson & the Jazz Singer
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The Jazz Singer was the first talkie movie it brought a new era to movies.
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Growth & Importance of Hollywood
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Movies started to become more poular and with sound.
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Expatriates
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people who leace their own country to live in a foreign land
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Isolationism
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To keep cut off from the world
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Installment buying
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buying on credit
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On-margin buying
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pay only part of the cost of the stock when they make th purchase
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Depression
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a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
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Causes of the Great Depression
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over production, weakness in the banking system, and people going bankrupt
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Overproduction/Consumerism
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-too many goods/food produced
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Scopes Trial
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a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school
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Stock Market Crash
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-When value of stock fell so low
-people were left with huge debts -banks ran out of money and closed, -people lost jobs -Start of Great Depression. |
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Hoovervilles
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group of shacks in which the homeless lived in during the great depression
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Bonus Army
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Army men that wanted a bonus they were promised
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Dust Bowl
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-Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930
-lasting for a decade -leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages |
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The New Deal
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The programs and policies to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Bank Failures
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banks could not give people all of their money
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FDR's 1st 100 Days
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-Marked by a flurry of legislation.
-Dozens of bills were passed, some contradicted each other -Gave Americans hope once again. |
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AAA
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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TVA
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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CCC
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Civilian Consevation Corps
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FDIC
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Federal Deposit Insurance Coperation
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WPA
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Works Progress Association
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NIRA/NRA
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National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). Nation Recovery Act (NRA).
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Social Security & its Problems
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federal government pays people who : are unemployed, retired, can't work, can't afford health insurance. National Debt Soars
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Second New Deal
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Jan 1935-Sept1935- Reorganized federal program for jobless relief. Assistance to rural poor, support for organized labor, social welfare benefits for elderly, stricter business regulations, heavier taxes on wealthy.
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Social Changes Caused by the Depression
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sports, movies, prohibition, organized crime, more liberal fun, more spending
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National Debt
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the total sum of money the government owes
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Deficit Spending
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the government was spending more than it took in
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How Depression Ended
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the New Deal helped overcome the Great Depression
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Consumerism
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a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers
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Consumption
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(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
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recession
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An economic slowdown of the economy which results in rising unemployment, increased business failures, declining economic growth and higher personal bankruptcies.
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Nativism
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A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
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KKK in the 1920s
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dramatic expansion due to nativism and The Birth of a Nation; favored White supremacy and restrictions on immigration; hostile towards immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans
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