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Prohibition-- Eighteenth Amendment
strictly prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, including liquors, wines, and beers -
culture
prohibitionists and antiprohibitionists argue about ban -
culture--Fundamentalism
Protestant preachers in rural areas condemned the modernists and taught that every word in the Bible must be accepted as literally true. -
Stock Market Crash--Uneven distribution of income
Economic success was not shared by all, as the top 5 percent of the richest Americans received over 33 percent of all income. -
Stock Market Crash--Weak farm economy.
prosperity of the 1920s never reached farmers,who had suffered from overproduction, high debt, and low prices since the end of World War I. As the depression continued through the 1930s, severe weather and a long drought added to farmers’ difficulties -
Prohibition--Defying the law.
Rival groups of gangsters, including a Chicago gang headed by Al Capone,fought for control of the lucrative bootlegging trade. Organized crime became big business -
Religion--Revivalists on the radio.
Revivalists of the 1920s preached a fundamentalist message but did so for the first time making full use of the new instrument of mass communication, the radio. -
Literature--Fundamentalism
Bible must be accepted as literallytrue. -
Literature--poet
Countee Cullen -
Literature--poet
Langston Hughes -
Literature--poet
James Weldon Johnson -
Literature--poet
Claude McKay -
culture--Modernism
took a historical and critical view of certain passages in the Bible and believed they could accept Darwin's theory of evolution without abandoning their religious faith. -
culture--Nativist
Nativist prejudices of native-born Protestants were aroused because of immigrants coming to american that were catholic and jews
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culture
expressed sharp-divisions in U.S. society between the young and the old -
Politics/Immigration--quota act of 1921
limited immigration to 3 percent of the number of foreign-born persons from a given nation counted in the 1910 Census (a maximum of 357,000). -
Politics/Immigration--second quota act in 1924
set quotas of 2 percent based on the Census of 1890 (before the arrival of most of the “new”immigrants). -
Religion--Scopes trial
Tennessee was one of several southern states that made it illegal to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution in the public schools.To challenge the constitutionality of such laws, the American Civil Liberties Union persuaded a Tennessee biology teacher, John Scopes, to teach the theory of evolution to his high school class. For doing so, Scopes was duly arrested and brought to trial in 1925. -
Economic--Stock Market Crash
Market crash leading to great depression -
Hoover’s---Hawley-Smoot Tariff
The Tariff passed by the Republican Congress set tax increases ranging from31 percent to 49 percent on foreign imports. -
Dust Bowl
severe drought in the early 1930s ruined crops in the Great Plains -
Dust Bowl--Moving
farms turned to dust, thousands of “Okies”from Oklahoma and surrounding states migrated westward to California insearch of farm or factory work -
Hoover’s--Debt moratorium
conditions became so bad both in Europeand the United States that the Dawes Plan for collecting war debts could nolonger continue -
Deal/Politics/Economic--AAA
encouraged farmers to reduce production therefore increasing price -
Deal--TVA
hired people from poor areas to help on federal building projects -
Deal--FHA
insuring bank loans for building and repairing houses -
Deal/Politics/Economic--nra
nontenured fair wages and profit for businesses -
Deal/Economic--HOLC
provide financing of small homes to prevent foreclose -
Deal/Politics/Economic-- Bank Relief act
allowed gov to look at fiances of banks and reopen -
Deal--21 amendment
Alcohol legal -
Deal--FDIC
guaranteed individual bank deposits up to 5k -
Deal--CCC
employed young men on federal projects -
Deal--WPA
spent money to get people jobs -
Deal--SEC
made to regulate stock market -
Deal--RA
Gave loans to sharecroppers and those alike -
Deal--REA
gave loans to electric corps for power in rural areas -
Literature--The Grapes of Wrat
novelist John Steinbeck wrote about the dust bowl and farm hardships
