history

• Flappers - Women who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes 
• The Great Migration - Largest movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North
• Rise of professional sports - sports were still segregated (baseball)
• Rise of professional sports - Increase in economy allowed for more luxaries
• The Scopes “Monkey” Trial

  • What was the issue/problem? - Scopes defined the law that banned the teaching of evolution 
• The Scopes “Monkey” Trial

  What was the outcome/ruling? - No teachers were ever arrested for violating this law again
• Harlem Renaissance - World’s largest black urban community 
• Harlem Renaissance - Literary and artistic movement celebrating African - American culture
• The First Red Scare

  • What Americans were worried about? - The spread of communism and communist party would take over
• • The Palmer Raids - Arrested 4000 alleged communists and hunted socialists, communists and archists
• Archists - People who oppose any form of government 
• National Origin Act of 1924

  • What was happening in the U.S. that led to this law? - Anti Immigration sentiment was on the rise
• National Origin Act of 1924

  • What did the National Origin Act do about immigration? - Made immigration restriction a permanent policy and set quotas to each national group
• • Beside African - Americans, what other group was targeted by the KKK? - Communists, Catholics, Jews and Radicals
• What ate the reasons for increase in popularity of the KKK?

  Spurred by Anti-Immigration and took advantage on people’s fear and acted on them
• Causes of Great Depression 

  • Gap between rich and poor
  • Reduction on purchasing
  • Buying on credit in the 20s
  • Bank Failures 
  • Dust Bowl
  • Hawley Smoot Tariff
  • Stock Market Crash
• FDR’s New Deal - created many agencies that helped ease the burden of the Great Depression 
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) - Paid farmers not to raise certain crops to lower crop production
• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - Gave unemployed men ages 18-25 the opportunity to work with the national foresty service 
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - Provided government insurance for bank deposits up
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) - Creating jobs for workers. Offering works to artists, musicians, theater people, and writers.
• National Recovery Act (NRA) - Increased union membership. Controlled industrial production and prices with industry
• Public Works Administration (PWA) - Series of Construction projects, creating additional jobs
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - Created to regulate the stock market and prevent fraud
• The Dust Bowl - a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the economic and agriculture of the American prairies during the drought
• Reason the United States joined WWll - The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor
• Code Talkers - A group of Native American Soldiers who played a crucial role during World War ll by using their native language to create unbreakable codes for troops during WWll.
• Tuskegee Airmen - First African-American pilots to serve in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during WWll.
• Land-Lease Act - Allowing U.S. to ship arms and supplies without payment allied powers
• Executive Order 8802 - prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry 
• Japanese & Japanese American internment/incarceration - what is it and the reason behind it

  • Japanese and Japanese Americans be sent to internment camps
  • FDR signed in Executive Order 9066
• The German American Bund - a pro-Nazi organization in the United States sduring the 1930s that promoted Nazi ideology andz held rallies supporting Hitler
• U.S. Response to the Holocaust - tried to save surviving Jews, but didn’t save a lot
• How women contributed to the war effort - worked in factories and shipyards during WWll
• How the Homefront helped the War Effort - Rationing, purchasing war bonds, working in factories, and volunteering for organizations like the Red Cross.
• Where they dropped the Atomic Bomb?

  Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• What is the reasoning behind Truman’s decision? - Truman wanted to minimize further loss of American and Allied lives
• Ending WW2

  • the atomic bomb played a key role on ending the war