- secretary of interior Albert fall sold government oil leases and kept it - first cabinet officer to go to prison

1920's Flashcards by william chambliss

Who were the main players in the Russian revolution

Reds vs Whites

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What was the American involvement in Russia directly after the great war

Sent troops to gather their stuff that they gave to support the war efforts

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What side and under who won the Russian revolution

Reds won under Lenin

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What happened to the state of Russia after the Russian revolution

Turned into Communist USSR

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What was the Red Scare of the 1920’s caused by

strikes and communist revolutions in the west
fear of foreigners by the public
press using scare tactics to make it more popular

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what were the 2 main trials of the Red Scare

Schenck vs. US , Sacco and Vanzetti trial

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Who was the justice of the Schenck vs. US trial

Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes

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What was the verdict of the trial between Schenck and US

Oliver Holmes said that free speech can be stripped in times of war; similar to alien and seditions act

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What is an exception to the first amendment

clear and present danger to public safety; or during war time

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Who is Att. Gen A Mitchell Palmer; slide of him

Sends out federal agencies to arrest several thousand suspected communist; White dude white hair with weird hats

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What was the result of the Sacco and vanzeti trial

Executed without fair trial

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Who was the judge for S and V trial

Judge Thayer

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What happened to nativism during 1920s

it increased along with intolerance

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What acts were set in place in response to the increase of nativism

immigration acts of 1921 and 1924

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What was a prime example of labor unrest in boston

boston policy strike

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What happened in the Boston policy strike

They illegally went on strike but Calvin Coolidge fired them and sent into the National Guard

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Harding presidental idea

No goverment involvement and before progressive

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Hardings republican formula

Lower gov spending higher tariffs and higher taxes

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What was the political era of the 20s like

republican era with non progressives and pro big business

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Hardings people

Poker Cabinet

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Bad part about Harding

Very corrupt, with scandals

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Democrats during the 20s

split between urban and farmers

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Teapot dome affair

secretary of interior Albert fall sold government oil leases and kept it
first cabinet officer to go to prison

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Hardings foriegn policy

isolationist

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What was Harding big foreign policy deal

limited size of the top 4 navys in the world

Why did harding want to reduce the navy

reduced major spending

Why was Harding never mentioned

died of natural causes in 1923

Who came after harding died?

Coolidge

What is the diffrence between Coolidge and Harding

not much

Election map of 1924 weird things

Oklahoma is the only non confederate to vote democrate and Wisconsin went to LaFollette

1920 economy under Coolidge

Stocks grew and first public intrest

- Sec of Treas. under Coolidge

Andrew Mellon

Sec of Treas plans under Coolidge

Cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy; trickle down economics

Foreign policy of Coolidge

involved into Latin america and controlled most of it

Coolidge sent marines to where?

Nicaragua to stop the rebellion

Nicaragua rebellion led by

Augusto Sandino

Marine Slides

- Us marines in Nicaragua slides - Sandinista flag is black flag with skulls on it in Nicaragua

Who came after Coolidge

Hoover

What amendment deals with Prohibiton

18th

Volstead Act

Dealt with the consequences of not obeying the 18th amendement

Who followed Volstead Act

Kansas; New york did not

What happened to the supply and demand of the Liquor after 18th amendement

Canada liquor spiked because of supply and demand

What led to more spending

installment plans so they do not pay up front

What innovations happened in the cites of 1920s

General electrics

Who suffered economically in the 1920s

Farmers

What caused depressed situation of farmers

caused by mechanization, rising production cost and overproduction

Henry Ford

Leader of the Cars

Who created the car

Germans; Mercedes Benz

Who mass produced cars

Henry Ford with Assembly line

What impact did Cars have on economy

Growth of related business

Flappers

Young Women who wore make up short skirts and short hair

It girl

Clara Bow model Flapper

What happened to women in workforce in 1920s

Went back home after war

What happened to women voting

They got it in 1920s but a large percentage did not vote because they did not want to. Votes like their male counterparts

Dance Craze

Charleston

What mass migration happened in the 1920s

People moving to urban from rural

Lucky Lindy

Charles Lindenburgh

Who is Charles Lindenburgh

- Fly across the Atlantic - Spirit of St Louis

Who did Harding appoint to the Supreme court

Taft

What does Taft do as supreme court

Struck down many progressive ideas

What was Tafts goal in supreme court

Reverse a few decisions and become conservative

First women to fly Atlantic

Amelia Earheart

Heavyweight champion

Jack Dempsey

Lou Gehrig

Baseball

Babe ruth

- Baseballs homerun king - Sultan of Swat - 60 homeruns vs 12

Gertrude Ederle

First women to swim the English Channel and she smashed the record

Golf women

Babe Diefrickson Zaharis

Who has the purest golf swing

Bobby Jones

Noter dame coach

Knute Rockne

Red Grange

Created professional football

women’s tennis champ

Helen Wills

Big Bill Tilden

Tennis

First talking film

Jazz Singer with Al Jolson first feature talkie in 1927

Charlie Chaplin

One of the only successful movie stars

First radio station

KDKA in Pittsburgh

What was the rise of Radio stations like

in 2 years 500 came up

What came out of the rise of Radios

Homogenization in the English language

Louis armstrong

trumpet player in Duke Ellingtons band

Duke ellington

Father of Jazz

WC Handy

father of blues

Gershwin

Rapsody in blues; piano player

Edward Hopper

Great artist; Night Hawks picture

Georgia O’Keefe

Great artist; a lot of just regular life with bright colors; scandolus naked lady

F scott Fitzgerald

Great gadsby; lived in Montgomery with zelda

What is the lost generation

no purpose of life and this was in literature

Harlem Renaissance

Movement of African American artist who had pride of being black

Langston Hughes

Part of the Harlem Renaissance

Speakeasies

Illegal bars

St. Valentines day Massacre 1929

lined up gangsters when dressed as police and just gunned them down

Elliot Ness

Caught Capone on Tax evasion

21st amendment

Repealed 18th amendement banning alc

What party was on the side of repealing prohibiton

Democrate

Billy Sunday

Fought the devil; radio preacher

Aimee Semple McPherson

Radio Preaher

Scopes Trial

Debating over evolution with Clarence Darrow and WJB

What did Clarence Darrow do

Defended scope

KKK

rise in the north because jobs; Save our land join the klan; Navitist organization more than everything; Indiana more than anyone

Birth of a nation

based of a clansman

Marcus Garvey

encouraged blacks to emigrate to Africa to establish a country with a government

first cartoon

steamboat willie

1920's Flashcards

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