15- Prohibits the denial of suffrage based of race or previous condition of servitude
16- Allows the federal government to collect income tax
17- Establishes the direct election of US Senators by popular vote
18- Prohibition of alcohol
19- Establishes women’s suffrage
What is important about Henry Ford? How did he change America?
-He was the first person to use the assembly line. Was able to mass produce cars. He payed his workers more, so they were able to buy his cars. - Road system came to be
What is important about Charles Lindbergh? How did he symbolize the times?
-First person to fly across the Atlantic ocean alone. Americans can rally behind him, bring them together. First international star.
What were "pool operators" and how were they crooked?
-Political machines. Political bosses. They collected votes. They would bribe people to vote a creation way. Give immigrants jobs, so they would get their vote. Gain votes for their candidate.
What were "pool operators" and how were they crooked?
-Political machines. Political bosses. They collected votes. They would bribe people to vote a creation way. Give immigrants jobs, so they would get their vote. Gain votes for their candidate.
How were stocks inflated? How did this cause the crash?
-People were buying stocks, use them as a way to gain money. New thing for the public. Buying stocks for companies that were off the ground yet.
What was Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?
What was Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?
-Oct. 24th 1929, 13 million shares of stock were sold off.
-Oct. 29th 1939, lost a record 16.4 million shares.
-Oct. 29th 1939, lost a record 16.4 million shares.
What was Hoover's view of Government relief programs?
- He believed that relief programs were communistic and socialistic
- Business would rewrite its self-hey would be able to pull themselves out of the Depression
What was the "Bonus Army"? What did it do? What happened to it?
- Vetrans who fought in WW1, were told they would receive a bonus. So when the depression came along, they asked if they could have the bonus now, instead of later. They camped out, but they wouldn't give them the money. They were kicked off public grounds.
What happened during the "Hundred Days"?
- first hundred days of Roosevelt's office. New Deal. Congress wanted to make new laws to start rebuilding the companies.
Laws:
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works Administration
Social Security Act
Laws:
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works Administration
Social Security Act
What was the WPA and what did it do?
- Works Progressive Administration
- Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airports. It employed artists, writers and musicians.
What were some programs set up during the Depression that are still with us today?
- Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airports. It employed artists, writers and musicians.
What were some programs set up during the Depression that are still with us today?
- Minimum Wage
- Child Labor
- Social Security
- Government Insured Banks
What were Roosevelt's FIRESIDE CHATS and why did they become important?
- Child Labor
- Social Security
- Government Insured Banks
What were Roosevelt's FIRESIDE CHATS and why did they become important?
-His radio discussions
-He would sit by the fire and talk about his views on the radio
- The people felt like they were talking to him directly
-They were confident builders
-He would sit by the fire and talk about his views on the radio
- The people felt like they were talking to him directly
-They were confident builders
Discuss the philosophical reasons World War I began.
- Nationalisim.
- Searching for independence.
What was the initial spark that began World War I?
- Searching for independence.
What was the initial spark that began World War I?
-The assassination of Arch-Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
Who were the allies? Who were the central powers?
Who were the allies? Who were the central powers?
- Allies- Great Britain, France and Russia, Japan, Italy
- Central Powers- Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire.
List five advancements in technology that lead to high causalities.
- Poison Gas
- Tanks
- Airplanes
- Machine Guns
- German U-boats
- Tanks
- Airplanes
- Machine Guns
- German U-boats
Describe tench warfare.
-You dig a trench and hide in it and shoot at the opposing side
-The trench helped guaranty that your head wouldn’t get shot off as long as you stayed in the trench.
What was the Lusitania?
-The trench helped guaranty that your head wouldn’t get shot off as long as you stayed in the trench.
What was the Lusitania?
- British passenger ship that the Germans torpedoed
- Germans thought that it was carrying weapons (later discovered that it was) and decided to sink it
- There were 100 some American passengers on it
Why did America eventually enter the war (list two reasons)?
- Zimmerman’s Telegram
-War costs moneyWhen was the Russian Revolution?
- March 1917
Discuss the importance of the Battle of the Marne.
Discuss the importance of the Battle of the Marne.
-September 5-12, 1914
-Marne River few miles east of Paris
-Saved Paris from invasion by the Germans and boosted French morale
-Made is clear that neither side was going to win the war easily or quickly
How did World War I change the United States?
-Marne River few miles east of Paris
-Saved Paris from invasion by the Germans and boosted French morale
-Made is clear that neither side was going to win the war easily or quickly
How did World War I change the United States?
- The US comes out economically stronger
- Emerges from the war as one of the World Powers
- Emerges from the war as one of the World Powers
Discuss the Treaty of Versailles. What did it do? Why did the U.S. reject it?
-June 28, 1919
-Germany had to:
- Accept FULL responsibility for the war
- Pay billion of dollars in reparations to the Allies
- Disarm completely
- Give up its overseas colonies and some territory in Europe
-Carved up the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires to create new nations or restore old ones
-US Rejection
- Some Americans thought the treaty was too harsh
- Henry Cabot Lodge thought that if the US joined the League of Nations that American troops and ships might be called to any part of the world by a nation other than the US
-Germany had to:
- Accept FULL responsibility for the war
- Pay billion of dollars in reparations to the Allies
- Disarm completely
- Give up its overseas colonies and some territory in Europe
-Carved up the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires to create new nations or restore old ones
-US Rejection
- Some Americans thought the treaty was too harsh
- Henry Cabot Lodge thought that if the US joined the League of Nations that American troops and ships might be called to any part of the world by a nation other than the US
Who was Marcus Garvey? What were his ideas?
- He was the one who was born into a poor family. Moved to new york, he didn't want more black people to live in american. You should be proud of your heritage.
How was Harding's Presidency corrupt?
How was Harding's Presidency corrupt?
Once he was elected, he admitted he didn't know what he was doing. So he hired a lot of his friends to help him out and not make him look stupud. Most of them were corrupt too.
How did the 20s change America? (think consumer society, entertainment, sports, fashion, politics)
How did the 20s change America? (think consumer society, entertainment, sports, fashion, politics)
- Prohibition
- Speakeasies
- Flappers
- Babe Ruth
- Miss America Pageant
- Tabloid-style newspapers
- Movies
What was the Harlem Renaissance? List three members.
-A literary and cultural movement that began right after the end of WWI
- Large numbers of African Americans moved North in search of jobs and new opportunities
- Langston Hughes
- Countee Cullen
- Claude McKay
How did prohibition lead to the raise of organized crime?
- Many people started making wine or bathtub gin in their homes
- Speakeasies came about
- People started bootlegging because they realized there was a lot of money that could be made
Who was Al Calpone?
-American gangster
-controlled organized crime and local politics in Chicago
-Bootlegger
What was the Dust Bowl?
- Speakeasies came about
- People started bootlegging because they realized there was a lot of money that could be made
Who was Al Calpone?
-American gangster
-controlled organized crime and local politics in Chicago
-Bootlegger
What was the Dust Bowl?
- Drought in the middle of the country
- Farmers used tractors and disc plows to clear millions of acre of sod for wheat farming
- They didn’t know that the roots of the grass had held the soil in place
- During the severe drought when the crops dried up, the soil dried up as well
- Strong prairie winds blew the soil away too.
Discuss entertainment during the 1930s?
- Silent films
- Talkies
- Radio shows
- Sports radio shows
- People could hear the game without being there
- Talkies
- Radio shows
- Sports radio shows
- People could hear the game without being there
Who was Huey Long? What did he promise people?
- Tax the Rich. Give poor people money, an annual income of 2500.
- He would get to pick the other six members
How did Roosevelt try and stack the Supreme Court?
- He wanted to make it so there were 15 members of the Supreme Court instead of 9- He would get to pick the other six members
