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The Roaring 20s, The Great Depression, FDR, and The New Deal Study Guide…
The Roaring 20s, The Great Depression, FDR, and The New Deal Study Guide
The Roaring 20s
Scopes Trial
What: John Thomas Scope was charged with violating the Butler Act after reading from a Tennessee approved textbook about evolution
Butler Act: this act forbid the teaching of any theory that denied the biblical story of Creationism
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The jury sided with the law but the battle that played out before the nation proved a victory for supporters of evolutionary theory.
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Harlem Renaissance
What: an eruption that allowed African Americans to
express themselves culturally, socially,and artistically.
Why: Cause: The Great Migration: Starting in 1890 African Americans migrated to the North in great numbers
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Effect: Political Change: The Harlem Renaissance sparked an era of racial cooperation. Important figures inspired a new sense of national identity among African-Americans.
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Flappers
Characteristics of The Flapper: short haircut, smoke, drank alcohol, drugs, foolish, wild
What: Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and didn't follow acceptable behavior.
Gibson Girl vs Flapper: dating, makeup, hair, drugs, and dance
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Why: WWI allowed women to take men's jobs while they were at war. They didn't want to return to the ways things were before the war because they didn't want ti give up their freedom.
Tulsa Riot
Where: Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahama
When: May 31, 1921 to June 1, 1921
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Why: The riot was triggered by a Memorial Day weekend newspaper report about an African American trying to rape a white women. The public was outraged
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Racial Issues: whites were favored over African Americans. At the time if there was an event that both races took part in, African Americans would get blamed.
East St. Louis Race Riot
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What was done to prevent riots from occurring again and what could have been done?: Laws could have been put in place, police could have strengthened numbers, and people could have been put in jail.
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What impact did the 18th Amendment and Prohibition have on the 1920s? What did the indirectly lead to the creation of?
18th Amendment: The Eighteenth Amendment effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession) illegal.
Prohibition: the action of forbidding something, especially by law
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Business Cycle 
What uses does this cycle have today?: predict when a future depression will happen, the cycle always repeats
A boom and bust cycle is a process of economic expansion and contraction that occurs repeatedly. During the boom the economy grows, jobs are plentiful and the market brings high returns to investors. In the subsequent bust, the economy shrinks, people lose their jobs and investors lose money. Boom-bust cycles last for varying lengths of time; they also vary in severity.
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The Great Depression
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Dust Bowl
Causes
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In attempts to get out of debt farmers ignored best agricultural practices and focused on trying to make money
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FDR & The New Deal
Fireside Chats
Fireside chats were a series of radio broadcasts where the nation was addressed by FDR over the radio.
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Impact of The New Deal
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The New Deal did provide assistance to struggling Americans during the Great Depression because of how successful its programs were
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