1920-1930

Question 1

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

Answer 1

1920’s

Question 2

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

Answer 2

helped win WW1

Question 3

what did the 1920’s offer the US?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

banned alcohol and started prohibition

Question 6

what did less alcohol do?

Answer 6

stabilized family life, but rose organized crime

Question 7

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

Answer 7

a time for division, tension and fear of outsiders

Question 8

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

Answer 8

the red scare

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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

Question 10

The US already has 70,000 what?

Answer 10

registered members of the communist party

Question 11

what happened in 1919 in a New York postal office?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

communists and Russian immigrants

Question 14

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

Answer 14

to investigate and J. Edgar Hoover

Question 15

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

Answer 15

it is because of communists

Question 16

what was banned in cities like Cleveland, OH?

Answer 16

red flags

Question 17

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

Answer 17

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

Question 18

what is nativism?

Answer 18

fear or suspicion of immigrants

Question 19

what skyrocketed in the 1920’s?

Answer 19

immigration

Question 20

what was the emergency quota act of 1921?

Answer 20

regulated immigration to the US

Question 21

who were the exceptions to of the emergency quota act?

Answer 21

Canada, Mexico, Caribbean

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Question 23

who were Nicola sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?

Answer 23

2 socialist men who dodged the draft from WW2

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Italian looking men

Question 26

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

Answer 26

they were executed by electric chair

Question 27

the KKK was revived in the 1920's this time with a...

Answer 27

strong anti-immigrant sentiment

Question 28

what was the new KKK inspired by?

Answer 28

the movie in 1915 the birth of a nation

Question 29

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

Answer 29

unions, communism, immigration and began burning crosses

Question 30

the KKK march in Washington when?

Answer 30

1925

Question 31

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

Answer 31

30,000

Question 32

why did many riots occur?

Answer 32

Americans of many different races

Question 33

what was the Tulsa Race massacre of 1921?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

when did riots break out in the Tulsa race massacre?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

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

Answer 35

10,000 and 1.5 million

Question 36

when did riots start to break out?

Answer 36

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

Question 37

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

Answer 37

38 people were killed , 23 black and 15 white

Question 38

the worst of the what of 1919?

Answer 38

"red summer" riots

Question 39

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

Answer 39

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

Question 40

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

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

50%

Question 42

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

Answer 42

us vs them

Question 43

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

Answer 43

jobs and wages

Question 44

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

Answer 44

James Cox

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Warren Harding

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Warren Harding

Question 47

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

Answer 47

presidency

Question 48

what was the largest scandal in 1923?

Answer 48

the teapot dome scandal

Question 49

what was the teapot dome?

Answer 49

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

Question 50

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

Answer 50

to allow the mammoth oil company to drill on the dome

Question 51

how much did Albert Fall receive from drilling on the Dome

Answer 51

325,000 and property

Question 52

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

Answer 52

1929

Question 53

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

Answer 53

a heart attack

Question 54

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

Answer 54

we will never know

Question 55

vice president Coolidge assumes office and runs for relection when?

Answer 55

1924

Question 56

Coolidge was able to distance himself from the corrupt what?

Answer 56

Harding administration and easily wins the reelection

Question 57

Coolidge overseas the what Pact in 1925

Answer 57

Kellog-Briand Pact

Question 58

what was the the Kellog- Briand Pact of 1925

Answer 58

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

Question 59

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

Answer 59

Vice President Charles Dawes

Question 60

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

Answer 60

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

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Andrew Mellon