unit 4 vocab history by

nativism

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:09:47 UTC

legislation and cultural movements that favored native-born Americans and opposed immigrants.

tulsa massacre

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:11:08 UTC

mobs of white residents, many of them were given weapons by city officials, attacked black residents and businesses.

isolationism

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:12:20 UTC

doesn't want to be involved in wars. says it is not our business.

communism

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:13:18 UTC

everything is given to the government for them to split up and divide equally. working class has the power. no rich vs poor.

the red scare

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:13:57 UTC

the fear of the spread of Russian ideas, communism, in the US.

sacco and vanzetti case

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:15:15 UTC

italians who were convicted of robbery and murder but people believed that they were only blamed because they were poor italians and anarchists.

flappers

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:16:21 UTC

women who wore dresses that stopped at their knees, had bobbed hair, and did things like smoking and driving cars that were usually only for men.

f. scott fitzgerald

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:23:11 UTC

the author who wrote about flappers in the great gatsby and was the leader of the jazz age.

jazz age

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:24:08 UTC

a period when jazz gained national popularity.

prohibition

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:25:01 UTC

the 18 ammendment banned the sale of alcohol and prohibited the consumption of it as well.

bootleggers and speakeasies

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:26:59 UTC

bootleggers were the gangsters that would sell illegal alcohol at speakeasies where liquor was smuggled in and served.

al capone

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:28:01 UTC

leader of the gans who made milions selling illegal alcohol.

21st ammendment

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:29:44 UTC

repealed the 18 ammendment because the government realized that they could make more money by taxing the alochol sales.

scopes monkey trials

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 00:32:09 UTC

when tennesee made it illegal to teach Darwins theory of evolution in public schools but the ACLU persuaded scopes to do it anyway.

harlem renaissance

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:28:07 UTC

thousands of African Americans migrated from the south and into the harlem neighborhood of New York City.

buying on margin

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:30:02 UTC

buying stocks on credit; only buying 10% of the stocks actual value.

stock speculation

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:30:51 UTC

people would buy and sell stocks quickly to make a quick buck.

herbert hoover

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:31:32 UTC

believed that the government should not help the people but the businesses should.

black tuesday

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:32:28 UTC

16.4 millon stocks were sold in one day on the stock market so it completely crashed. OCTOBER 29 1929

great depression

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:33:39 UTC

the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the western industrialized world. in the US it lasted from 1929 to 1941.

shantytowns

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:34:38 UTC

towns of unemployed and homeless people that were "dedicated" to hoover.

hoovervilles

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:35:30 UTC

4 million americans lost their homes so they were forced to create their own. they were shantytowns.

breadlines and soup kitchens

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:37:09 UTC

created by the social gospel movement to feed the homeless and the needy daily. usually it was the only meal they got.

the dust bowl

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:39:12 UTC

natural disaster of drought, high winds, and dust that destroyed crop so it prevented the use of farm lands.

election of 1932

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:41:51 UTC

herbert hoover vs franklin roosevelt.

franklin delano roosevelt

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:42:32 UTC

thought that the government should help the people and provide them relief and jobs.

the new deal

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:46:13 UTC

roosevelts plan to fix the country in 6 areas. also known as alphabet soup.

FDIC

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:46:59 UTC

helped promote and preserve public confidence in the US financial systems.

SEC

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:47:44 UTC

it was built to restore confidence in the capital markets by providing more reliable information to investors.

AAA

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:48:57 UTC

restored the purchasing power of American farmers to pre-ww2 levels. it controlled the supply of 7 basic crops.

CCC

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:49:49 UTC

recruited thousands of unemployed young men to enlist them into a peace time army.

SSA

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:50:34 UTC

meant to lighten the load on families and help people after retirement.

WPA

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:51:17 UTC

it got a lot of people employed on various WPA programs.

langston hughes

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 01:54:09 UTC

leader of the harlem renaissance. promoted equality, condemned racism, and celebrated African American culture. his ideas inspire MLK and civil rights movement.

fireside chats

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 02:03:24 UTC

roosevelt would talk on the radio and tell the people how he was going to help them.

deficit spending

jlar1945 — 2023-12-13 02:04:06 UTC

spending more than your income, more than our taxes pay for. results in debt.