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1920-1930 Flashcards

1
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was the 1920’s or 1930’s a very prosperous time for the US?

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1920’s

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in the 1920’s what did the US just do?

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helped win WW1

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what did the 1920’s offer the US?

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jobs were plentiful, businesses are putting out new, cutting edge products

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what did expendable incomes allow for families in the 1920’s?

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allowed families to splurge on luxuries and encourages growth of arts and pop cultures

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what did the 18th amendment do for the 1920’s that started a new age?

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banned alcohol and started prohibition

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6
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what did less alcohol do?

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stabilized family life, but rose organized crime

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while prosperous, 1920’s also was a time for what?

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a time for division, tension and fear of outsiders

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what was an event during the tension of the 1920’s?

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the red scare

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what did Americans start to grow fearful of in the 1920’s?

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communism after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 that installed Vladmir Lenin and the Marxist ideology in Russia

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10
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The US already has 70,000 what?

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registered members of the communist party

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what happened in 1919 in a New York postal office?

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a postal worker found 20 bombs that were mailed to a variety of government officials

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12
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in 1919 when were the bombs that were sent to government officials sent to explode

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on May day, a public holiday celebrated on May 1st to celebrate workers

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13
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A bomb exploded on wall street on september 16 and killed 30 people, who did people blame?

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communists and Russian immigrants

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14
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why was the federal bureau of investigation founded and who was its first director?

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to investigate and J. Edgar Hoover

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several labor strikes take place and many leaders convince the public what?

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it is because of communists

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16
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what was banned in cities like Cleveland, OH?

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red flags

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17
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why were “Palmer Raids” put together and who conducted it?

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to root out suspected radicals of suspected bombing and Attorney General Mitchell Palmer

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18
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what is nativism?

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fear or suspicion of immigrants

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19
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what skyrocketed in the 1920’s?

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immigration

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20
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what was the emergency quota act of 1921?

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regulated immigration to the US

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21
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who were the exceptions to of the emergency quota act?

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Canada, Mexico, Caribbean

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22
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who can the anti- immigrant sentiment best be seen with?

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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who were Nicola sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?

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2 socialist men who dodged the draft from WW2

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24
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who were accused of a recent crime, of which there was never any direct evidence

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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25
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a factory worker was killed and robbed. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused and arrested after witnesses said “_________” did it

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Italian looking men

26
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All evidence was circumstantial but anti- immigrant sentiment won out:

A

they were executed by electric chair

27
Q

the KKK was revived in the 1920’s this time with a…

A

strong anti-immigrant sentiment

28
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what was the new KKK inspired by?

A

the movie in 1915 the birth of a nation

29
Q

the KKK opposed what and what did they do as a hate symbol?

A

unions, communism, immigration and began burning crosses

30
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the KKK march in Washington when?

A

1925

31
Q

Had 6 million members by 1924, but FBI prosecution leads fall to how many members by 1930?

A

30,000

32
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why did many riots occur?

A

Americans of many different races

33
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what was the Tulsa Race massacre of 1921?

A

mobs of white people attacked African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma and targeted the wealthy black community known as “Black Wall Street”

34
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when did riots break out in the Tulsa race massacre?

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when Dick Rowland, a black show shiner, was falsely accused of assaulting a white elevator operator

35
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riots left how many African Americans homeless and caused how much in property damage?

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10,000 and 1.5 million

36
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when did riots start to break out?

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when Eugene Williams, a young African American male drifted into a whites only swimming pool

37
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how many people were killed when riots broke out after the swimming pool problem?

A

38 people were killed , 23 black and 15 white

38
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the worst of the what of 1919?

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“red summer” riots

39
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what made the 1920’s the worst in terms of race relations?

A

the great migration that started in 1916 greatly changed the makeup of the united states

40
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over 6 million african americans sought better opportunities and moved out of where and went to where?

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moved out of rural southern areas and went to northern urban areas

41
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in 1900 90% of all African Americans lived in the south, by 1970 what percent of African Americans lived in the north and west?

A

50%

42
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as African Americans moved into previously white dominated areas, many in the white America created a what kind of attitude?

A

us vs them

43
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competition of what increased while what decreased as a large labor pool pushed what down?

A

jobs and wages

44
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who ran as a democrat to replace woodrow wilson and hoped his popularity during WW1 would enable his win?

A

James Cox

45
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who was the republican who ran against James Cox and urged a “return to normalcy” now that the war was over?

A

Warren Harding

46
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who wins the election in a landslide and becomes the 29th president of the US?

A

Warren Harding

47
Q

what was filled with corruption and one of the most scandal ridden in history?

A

presidency

48
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what was the largest scandal in 1923?

A

the teapot dome scandal

49
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what was the teapot dome?

A

a natural oil reserve in wyoming. It was set aside for an emergency reserve for the US navy

50
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Albert Fall, secretary of the interior, accepted bribes to allow what?

A

to allow the mammoth oil company to drill on the dome

51
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how much did Albert Fall receive from drilling on the Dome

A

325,000 and property

52
Q

when did Albert fall get convicted and serve a year in jail?

A

1929

53
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President Harding was on a western tour of the country when Albert Fall died of what before he could answer questions about the scandal?

A

a heart attack

54
Q

how involved was harding, how much did he know about Albert Fall?

A

we will never know

55
Q

vice president Coolidge assumes office and runs for relection when?

A

1924

56
Q

Coolidge was able to distance himself from the corrupt what?

A

Harding administration and easily wins the reelection

57
Q

Coolidge overseas the what Pact in 1925

A

Kellog-Briand Pact

58
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what was the the Kellog- Briand Pact of 1925

A

a goodwill gesture by the world’s countries to never fight a war again

59
Q

who helped create a plan to help Germans repay its reperations from the treaty of versailles?

A

Vice President Charles Dawes

60
Q

what was the plan to help Germans repay owed things from the treaty of versailles?

A

offered loans to Germany to pay Britain and France back- which in turn could pay the Us back and Dawes received the Nobel prize for his work on the plan

61
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who served as secreatry of the Treasury under Harding, Coolidge and the future president Hoover

A

Andrew Mellon

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