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1920-1929: Tensions Flashcards

1
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Which % of people lived below the poverty line?

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60%

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2
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Which % of Blacks lived in the South?

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70%

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3
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What did industry wages increase by relative to profit?

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Profit increased 60%, wages only increased 8%

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4
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Which censorship measure was imposed on Hollywood?

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the Hays Code - cinema blamed for looser sexual morality

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5
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Which % of people owned a radio by 1930?

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40%

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6
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What did the 1917 Lever Act do?

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Banned the use of grain in alcohol production

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7
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How many gangland murders were there in Chicago?

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227, link to St Valentine’s Day massacre

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8
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How many speakeasies did Washington DC have?

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700

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9
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Which % of alcohol was actually intercepted?

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An estimated 5%

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10
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What was the estimated value of bootlegging?

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$800 million by 1924

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11
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How much did George Remus make from bootlegging?

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$5 million in 5 years

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12
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What was the value of bootlegging between Canada and Detroit?

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$215 million annually

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13
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When and how many prohibition Enforcement Agents fined for corruption?

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1929 - 10%

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14
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How many Prohibition Agents were there?

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1,500 - only 200 in NY (32,000 speakeasies)

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15
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How much did deaths from alcohol increase?

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600%

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16
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How many of the 1920s breweries reopened after Prohibition was repealed?

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Only 1/2

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17
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How much did alcohol consumption fall by?

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One third

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18
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Name a famous and successful prohibition enforcer

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Moe Smith, Izzy Einstein

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19
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How much did the government spend on prohibition

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$2 million ($5 million requested)

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20
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Which act introduced prohibition?

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1920 Volsted Act (18th Amendment)

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21
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Which groups supported prohibtition

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KKK- 5 million members in 1925
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League

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22
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When was 50million litres of alcohol found and destroyed?

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1929

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23
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What happened to Coca-Cola stock?

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Doubled

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24
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How many speakeasies were there in New York/

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32,000 - only 200 enforcement agents

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25
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Who famously accepted Prohibition bribes?

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Harry Daugherty

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26
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Which Governor refused to spend money on Prohibition

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Governor of Washington (700 speakeasies)

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27
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Which % of lawyers’ time was spent on Prohibition cases?

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44% - led to minimal punishments eg fines

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28
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When was Prohibition repealed?

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By FDR, 21st Amendment 1933 (Beer-Wine Revenue Act)

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29
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How much could stills be bought for to produce alcohol?

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Only $7

30
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When was the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’?

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1925

31
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Where was the Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’?

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Tennessee, 1925

32
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When was ‘The Passing of the Great Race’ published?

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1916 - book on eugenics

33
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When were literacy tests introduced for immigrants?

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1917

34
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What did Wilson say during WW1?

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There was a need for ‘100% Americanism’

35
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When did an Italian anarchist blow himself up?

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1919

36
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How many bombs were found in NY for ‘enemies of the revolution’?

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16 in post offices, 18 elsewhere

37
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Where was a new department set up to control the ‘red scare’?

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Within the Department of Justice

38
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When were the Palmer Raids?

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1920

39
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How many arrests and deportations were made relating to the Red Scare?

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5000 arrests, 500 deportations

40
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When and what was the Sacco and Vanzetti case?

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2 violent robberies 1919 and 1920, executed in 1927

2 immigrants, Sacco and Vanzetti, were reported and convicted despite the lack of evidence - biased judge

41
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Why did the South worry about immigration?

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Lots of immigrants went to the North - they worries about representation in politics

42
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What was another cause of resentment for immigration

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From wage earners - worried that wages would reduce/they would not be hired

43
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Which policies were introduced limiting immigration?

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1921 Emergency Quota Act (370,000p.a.)

1924 Quota Act (164,000p.a.)

44
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How many members and lynchings did the KKK have up to 1877?

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1/2mil members, around 3,000 lynchings

45
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What sparked the reemergency of the Klan?

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War, immigration, ‘Birth of a Nation’ film in 1915

46
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Who re-established the KKK?

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Doc Simmons

47
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How many members did the KKK have 1921 compared to 1925?

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1921- 10,000 members

1925 - 5 million members

48
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What were some tactics used by the KKK?

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Lynchings, terror, financial blocking, influencing elections

49
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When was Doc Simmons joined by Elizabeth Tyler and Edgar Clark?

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1920

50
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When did Tyler and Clark leave the Klan and why?

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1924 - Tyler died, Clark arrested for fraud

51
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Who was the head of the Indiana KKK?

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David Stephenson virtually controlled Indiana by 1924 - jailed for rape in 1925

52
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What was the membership of the KKK by 1930?

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Dropped to 200,000

53
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Where was the majority membership of the KKK?

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25% in Old South, 40% in Indiana, Ohio and Ilynois

54
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What did historian Blee say about the KKK?

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‘Membership was not restricted to poor, downtrodden Americans’

55
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Name an example of the KKK influencing politics

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Blocked the Democratic nomination of Al Smith in 1924
Organised a march on Washington in 1926
2 senators in Georgia were in the KKK
Influenced elections, ie in Ohio and Maine

56
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How many lynchings were there in the 1920s?

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227

57
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What reduced the KKK membership?

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More immigration policies
Financial scandals
DC Stephenson rape case 1925
Tyler’s death, Clark arrested for fraud

58
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How were Native Americans discriminated against?

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Confined to infertile reservations; children forced to go to boarding schools; forced conversion to Christianity
However, given US citizenship in 1920

59
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Which % of Native Americans died and how?

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90% - from illness, famine and genocide

60
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Which % of the population were African-American?

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10% - but 85% of the population in the poor South US

61
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How did African Americans suffer discrimination?

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Jim Crow laws
Lower education meant they could not vote
Discrimination in housing and employment
25 states had race riots in 1919
KKK, ghettoes
62
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Which movements were set up to help the Black Civil Rights?

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NAACP - 1909 by W DuBois

UNIA - Marcus Garbey, 1914

63
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How many members did the NAACP have by 1919

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90,000

Won their 1st case against the ‘grandfather clause’ (voting) in 1915

64
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What was the Chinese Exclusion Act 1882?

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Restricted Chinese immigration, made permanent in 1902. 1st law banning a specific ethnicity. Not repealed until the 1940s.

65
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When were women given the right to vote?

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19th Amendment in 1920

However no obvious changes: no gender revolution, voted similarly to men (and less likely to vote), few entered politics

66
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How many women were in the House of Representatives by 1928?

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Only two

67
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When was the Equal Rights Amendment first proposed?

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In 1923, but failed until 1972

68
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How many women were employed in 1930?

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10.5 million - 1 million in professions, 3.5 million in domestic services
Growth in clerical sector increased employment for women
(however often paid less)

69
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Where was the increasing affluence of women evident?

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The cosmetic industry, which was worth $200 million annually

70
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What did the ‘Middletown’ (Alabama) study show?

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86% owned their own homes and 99% had electricity, illustrating the increasing affluence.
However huge divide between MC and WC - for instance, 100% of MC had telephones but only 50% WC did

71
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Which % of rural areas had running water?

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Only 32%

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