Roaring 1920's & Great Depression ~ EOC Connection Review

Decade with economic prosperity; led to mass consumerism

Harlem Renaissance redefined arts and culture

Flappers, young women with bobbed hair and short skirts, became a symbol for the era

• Great Depression

• Roaring Twenties

• Harlem Renaissance

• Social Securities

1932 – 1939 – devastating economic downturn that saw stock prices fall, businesses fail and large-scale unemployment in Europe and U. S.

F.D.R. implemented a “New Deal” plan to put the nation back to work

• Great Depression

• New Deal

• Communists

• NAACP

Followers of a social, economic and political ideology; no social classes would exist.

Historically, many Americans feared communism.

WWI – Espionage Act and Sedition Act to prosecute suspected Communist.

Fear fueled the Red Scare

• Dawes Plan

• Nineteenth Amendment

• New Deal

• Communists

1924 – U.S plan to resolve the crippling WWI reparations that Germany was required to pay (was straining diplomacy)

Provided an end to Allied occupation of Germany and a staggered payment plan for Germany to pay reparations

• Dawes Plan

• Four Power Treaty

• New Deal

• Dust Bowl

1922 – raised tariffs on imported goods to protect American factories and farms (policy of protectionism)

Made made it difficult for European nations to trade, impacted their ability to pay their war debts

Allowed for growth of monopolies in the U.S. Industry

• Volstead Act

• National Labor Relations Act

• Fordney-McCumber Act

• Neutrality Act

Cultural period during the 1920s which brought new styles of dance and music

Credited to African-American’s new musical techniques blended with African traditions

Spread by rise of radio broadcast to white middle class

• Red Scare

• Jazz Age

• Black Tuesday

• New Deal

Eighteenth Amendment - banned the sale and import of alcoholic beverages; passed in 1920

Protestants, Progressives and women led the movement

Led directly to the rise of organized crime

Twenty-first Amendment repealed this ban (1933)

• Prohibition

• Red Scare

• Rosewood Incident

• Sit-down Strike

Fear of communism spread after Russia overthrew their Czar.

Strikes in U.S. caused fear that this was the start of a communist revolution.

Led to exaggerated charges, illegal search and seizures, unwarranted arrests and anti-immigration nativism.

• Fordney-McCumber Act

• Red Scare

• Dawes Plan

• Kellog-Briand Pact

Italian immigrants arrested, tried and executed for murdering a guard & robbing a shoe factory.

Convicted on circumstantial evidence; conviction was more about their radical anarchists and pro-union beliefs.

Even though someone else confessed to the crime, their case was not retried or overturned

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Dawes Plan

• Communists

• Black Tuesday

Shocked U.S. citizens by revealing corruption and greed within the federal government

Bribery scandal involved leased petroleum reserves to private oil companies without competitive bidding

Damaged the reputation of the Harding Administration

• Teapot Dome

• Communists

• Four Power Treaty

• Dawes Plan