Unit 7

• Fundamentalism 


  A conservation movement in theology among Christians. believed that the statement in the Bible are literally true (argued evolution)
• Flapper 


  Young, single, northern, urban, middle class woman. They wore shorter dresses and engaged in active city nightlife
• Prohibition 


  Total ban on alcohol in the US. Caused increase in the crime
• Red scare

  Everyone was caught up in containment of communism and investigating ppl within their communities
• Harlem renaissance 


  An African American culture movement In the 1920s that celebrated black traditions, black voices, and black ways of life
• Great migration 


  Large number of African Americans during ww1 from rural south to urban north
• Dust bowl 


  Great Plains experienced droughts lasting a decade, leaving farmers w/o work or sustaining wages
• New deal 


  Fdr promised policies of relief, recovery, and reform to combat the effect of the GD
• Court picking 


  legislative initiative  proposed by FDR to add more justices to the US Supreme Court
• What were the effects of prohibition 


  Rise in organized crime, smuggling, illegal production/sale of alcohol
• 3 causes of the Great Depression 


  Decrease in stock prices suddenly STOCK MARKET CRASH

  farmers lost sustaining wages from dust bowl

  banks could not give back money to ppl
• Compare and contrast Hoover and FDR

  FDR: the new deal which gave jobs, food, and money to ppl

  Hoover: do nothing and let problems fix itself (thug it out bitches)
• The 3 goals of the new deal


  Relief recovery and reform