1920's Unit Flashcards
(104 cards)
1
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What do people call the 1920’s?
A
The bridge to Modern America
2
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From 1920-1929 what production nearly doubles?
A
car production
3
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What was the result of car production?
A
American are more mobile
Roads are paved
Highways appear
4
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What machine allowed you to look in a machine for a few minutes and how much money was it?
A
Nickelodeon
Nickel
5
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How many tickets were sold in the US from the Nickelodeon?
A
100 Million
6
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By 1929, how many radios were sold?
A
4 Million
7
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Who made the first radio broadcast and where was it?
A
KDKA
Pittsburgh
8
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What did KDKA broadcast?
A
the 1920 presidential election results
9
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Who won the 1920 presidential election results broadcasted by the KDKA?
A
Warren Harding
10
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What was the old record players called?
A
Phonographs
11
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In 1921, how many phonographs were produced each year?
A
100 Million
12
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Which two singers became heroes and heroines?
A
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
13
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What did they use for a fridge that was very inconvenient?
A
Ice Box
14
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In 1920, how many fridges were produced?
A
5 thousand
15
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By 1931, how many fridges were produced?
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Over 1 million
16
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What childhood diseases were controlled by advancing medical knowledge in the 1920’s?
A
Typhoid
Measles
17
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What made the Us the most educated in the world?
A
Compulsory and Free primary education
18
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What made Jaz Ragtime and blues start blaring ?
A
Through phonographs
19
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What dance did people dance?
A
Charleston
20
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What was the dance that was popular named after?
A
The city of Charleston
21
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What event did huge crowds pay money to watch?
A
Sporting events
22
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Who did 50,000 people go to watch in ballparks like Yankee stadium?
A
Babe Ruth
23
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Who made the first solo non-stop flight ?
A
Charles A. Lindbergh
24
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What was Charles Lindbergh’s nickname?
A
Lucky Lindy
25
A. Charles Lindbergh flew from _______ to ______?
B. How long did it take?
C. What ocean did he fly over?
A. New York to Paris
B. 33 and 1/2 Hours
C. Atlantic Ocean
26
The nation was finding and making new ways to do what?
Manufacture consumer products
27
In 1913, who tried the assembly line for making automobiles?
Henry Ford
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What was Henry Ford's ultimate goal?
Making cars so cheap that he could sell them by the millions
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What was one improvement Henry Ford made to his assembly line?
He made it man high
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A. Was was Henry Fords car called that was affordable?
| B. When did it debut?
A. Model T
| B. 1908
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A. How much money was the original price of the Model T?
B. How many were sold in the first year?
C. Four years later what did the price drop to?
A. $830
B. Over 10 thousand
C. $575
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By 1914, Ford could claim ___% share of the automobile market
48%
33
In 1920, Warren Harding was elected on a pledge of "________"?
"return to normalcy"
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What did Warren Harding not want to peruse?
Reform (Progressives)
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What kind of economic policies did Harding favor?
Conservative policies that aided business growth
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What are three things that return to normalcy meant?
1. Retreat from involvement and foreign affairs
2. Rejection of progressive policies
3. Pro-business economic policies
37
Who did Harding appoint his secretary of treasury?
Andrew Mellon
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Andrew Mellon supported legislation that advanced what interests?
Business
39
A. Andrew Mellon did liked new______?
| B. Favored low taxes on what?
A. Income tax
| B. Corporations and Individuals
40
What spending did Andrew Mellon want to reduce?
Government Spending
41
Harding signed a bill that raised protective____ by 25%
| Why?
tariffs
| its easier for American producers to sell goods at home
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Who retaliated making American goods harder to sell overseas?
Europeans
43
What did tariffs do that was very bad?
They weakened the world economy
44
Unlike progressives like T.Roosevelt and Wilson, Harding and Coolidge reduced government regulation of _____?
business
45
Who was the secretary of commerce?
Herbert Hoover
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A. Herbert Hoover worked with business and labor in order to achieve what?
B. He got business and labor to do what?
A. Voluntary advancements
| B. Work together
47
Harding was not very _______ gifted.
Who did he trust to make the decisions for him ?
Intelligently
The ohio gang(his old poker buddies)
48
Who was head of the veterans bureau?
Charles forbes
49
Charles Forbes practiced _______ and wasted what ?
Graft(corruption)
Taxpayers dollars
50
What is an example of what charles forbes did that was corrupt?
He bought 70,000 dollars worth if floor cleaner for 24 tunes the price it shouldve been
51
What attorney used his position to accept money from criminals ?
General Harry Daughtery
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What was Harding's worst scandal?
Teapot Dome Scandal
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Who was involved in the teapot dome scandal?
Albert Fall
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Why was the Teapot Dome a scandal?
Oil reserved were used for emergency only, but Harding signed a transfer
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Fall forgot that the land was leased to oil men in return for bribes. These rumors led who to investigate? What happened to fall?
Senate
| Sentenced to one year in prison
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What did Harding die of?
A stroke or blood clot
57
How did people mourn Harding?
Like they mourned Lincoln
58
How was Coolidge. the vice president, sworn into office when Harding died?
His father used the family bible
59
What was Calvin Coolidge's nickname?
| Why was it funny?
"Silent Cal"
| He was very quotable
60
Who did Coolidge follow the goals of?
| What were some of these goals?
Andrew Mellon
| Reduce national debt, Trim federal budget, Lowering taxes
61
Who struggled to keep their land and why?
Farmers
| Because prices dropped
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Who demanded higher wages and better working conditions?
Labor Unions
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Why did the country experience division?
Immigration
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The rural population was mostly _____
Protestants
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The growing division between cities and rural population happened over the ________trial, the rise of the ______, the _____trial, and ______
scopes
KKK
Sacco-Vanzetti
Prohibition
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Cities were mostly filled with what people?
Jewish and catholic
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People living in rural population were mostly what people?
Protestant
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In 1921 and 1922, who gathered in D.C. and for what?
Diplomats
| Washington naval disarmament
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What was the conference in D.C. for?
| What did it result in?
Wanted the US, Great Britain, and Japan to have a non-aggression pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact (Treaty to outlaw war)
70
The US wanted _____ and ____ to repay war debts? For this to happen who had to make reparation payments imposed by the treaty of_____?
Britain and France
Versailles
Germany
71
What was the plan that arranged US loans to Germany?
| What was the problem with this and what resulted?
Dawes Plan
The whole thing was financed by the us
Ended int he stock market crash
72
What created new problems such as starvation, death, revolution?
This made people _______
WW1
| Dissatisfied
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In 1920 Census, more Americans were now living in ______ than in _____
Cities
| Countries
74
What did city people believe in?
Modernism
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What is modernism?
Science over religion
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What did country people believe in ?
Fundamentalism
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What is fundamentalism?
Every word of the Bible is the literal truth
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Where did the values of fundamentalism and modernism clash?
The scopes trial of 1925
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What state made a law prohibiting teachers to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution?
Tennessee
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What was prohibited from being taught in Tennessee ?
Darwin’s theory of evolution
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Who volunteered to break the law and was arrested when he did?
John scopes
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Who was John scopes?
Biology teacher from Dayton Tennessee
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What did journalists call the scopes trial?
“The monkey trial”
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What happened to scopes at the end of the scopes trials?
He was found guilty and fined $100
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During this time did people support or try to restrict the number of immigrants coming into the US?
Restrict
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National quotas (set number) for immigrants was introduced called the ______
Emergency immigration act
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What said only 150,000 immigrants were allowed to enter the US?
National Origins act
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By 1920's, over half of white men and 1/3 of white woman working in manufacturing industries were _____
immigrants
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The KKK was originally a product of what?
Civil war
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When they came back in 1915 what did they do?
Terrorized all foreigners;
| Blacks, Jews Roman, Catholics.
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How many people were in the KKK?
4.5 million
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Most famous criminal case that involved two people being killed. Two innocent people were accused, found guilty, and executed.
Sacco and Vanzetti
93
What was an unlawful hanging of someone by a mob?
Lynchings
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Who's home was damaged by a bomb resulting in a postman being killed?
Mitchell Palmer
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Mitchell believed the riots were the work of the Bolsheviks and Anarchists. He ordered mass _____
arrests
96
Why did drys support prohibition?
Thought it would lower crime rates and bring family together
97
Why did prohibition fail?
It was not enforced and it was bad for the economy
98
What was actually never illegal during Prohibition?
Why did 1,000 Americans die per year?
What happened to crime rates?
to drink
drinking tainted liquor
increased
99
Who promised to end prohibition?
Roosevelt
100
What means discouraging the use of alcohol?
Temperance
101
What state could woman vote?
New Jersey
102
What amendment allowed woman to vote?
19th
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Who were silent sentinels?
Protesters outside the white house
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after what was the 19th amendment ratified?
WW1
