Details Title: 1920s Description: everything from the 1920s Total Flash Cards: 35 Created: 12/07/2008 19:27:05		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional History Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Motion Pictures Definition Stars- Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Mary Pickford (America's Sweetheart)   Talkies- Al Jolson- The Jazz Singer 1927 Term Problems that lead to the crash Definition Steel orders dropped too much credit care sales dropped construction dropped farmer's debt Term Farm Problems Definition over production dust bowl foreign comeptition no govt support price dropped 50% Term Advertising Definition Billboards Berma Shave Desire to reach more people and make them think they need goods.  Term Department Stores Definition Sears JC Penney Goods arranged in seperate departments. Compared "Piggly Wiggly" grocery stores. Term F. Scott Fitzgerald Definition The Great Gatsby Opposed the excesses of 1920s society. Term Ernest Hemingway Definition Farewell to Arms Opposed to the glorifications of war Term Sinclair Lewis Definition Opposed to materiaism Term Bill Tilden Definition Tennis- 3 Wimbeldons 7 US Opens Term Red Grange Definition Football- "Galloping ghost" Illinois Univ. Chicago Bears Term Knute Rockne Definition Notre Dame football coach 105-12 record Term Babe Ruth Definition Baseball- Yankee Stadium- The house that Ruth built 60 HR Term Bobby Jones Definition Golf- 13 Major champoinships   Term Gertrude Ederle Definition Swam the English channel in 14 and 1/2 hours at age 19 Term Jack Dempsey Definition Boxer- 76-1 record Term Duke Ellington Definition Jazz  musician- pianist- band leader Term Bessie Smith Definition Jazz singer- highest paid entertainer- $2,000 per week Term Louis Armstrong Definition Jazz Trumpeter Term Definition Term Charles Lindberg Definition 1927 1st solo trans-atlanticflight in Spirit of St Louis Term Amelia Earhart Definition First female trans-atlantic in 1932. 1928-solo across the US Term Susan B. Anthony Definition Womens rights poineer- the right to vote. Term Al Capone Definition gangster- made $ from sales of illegal alcohol Term Eliot Ness Definition Federal Agent- The "untouchables" Term Jesse Livermore Definition Stock market spectacular- part of RCA pool Term Charles Mitchell Definition made $ avaliable for average people to invest in market. Term William Durant Definition Started General motors (Chevrolet) lost a fortune in market crash Term Calvin Coolidge Definition Pres. Following Harding. Seemed more honest. Presided over 1920s prosperity. "silent Cal"- favored big business- vetoed farm price supports. Term Herbert Hoover Definition President at the start of the depression- did not cause it. Term Red Scare Definition 1917 Rev in Russia- goal of communism was to ovethrow capitalism. Term Ku Klux Klan Definition renewal- attacked blacks, jews, catholics, foreigners, supported prohibition. Oregon and Indiana had largest membership. Term Anarchists Definition opposed to all forms of government Term Harding Scandals Definition "Ohio Gang" took bribes and kickbacks (Tea pot Dome) Term Flappers Definition emancipated women- smoke/drink in public. danced short dresses Term Speakeasies Definition night clubs where alcohol is sold/consumed.