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The Roaring Twenties Flashcards

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Election of 1920

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Warren Harding won

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Warren Harding

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Republican heavy partier used good propaganda

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Return to normalcy

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Recovering for war/fear communism coming to US

Red scare

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Red scare

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First
Communism was feared
KKK was revived
Nativism 
WASP-white Anglo-Saxon protestant
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Nativism

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Restrictions on immigration-Chinese exclusion act

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Gentlemen’s Agreement

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1907 Japanese laborers came to American there were oriental schools for Asians but they didn’t like them
Limited amount of laborers coming to US

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Origins act 1921

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No more than 3% of nationality can come to US based on census of 1910

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National origins quota act

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1924 lowered number to 2% and based it on 1890 census

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Updated quota

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1929 no more than 150,000 of each nationality

Banned Asian immigration

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Scandal in harding’s cabinet

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Teapot done scandal in Wyoming

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Teapot Dome Scandal

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Albert Fall leased land to private company and closed it to other companies
Found guilty of accepting bribes

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Albert Fall

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Secretary of interior cabinet

Responsible for all federal land

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Harding’s death

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1923 died of heart attack

Calvin Coolidge took over

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Calvin Coolidge

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“Silent Cal” known for being quiet yet having integrity

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Laissez-faire economics

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Hands off-let economy do its own thing

3 presidents-Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

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Henry ford

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Made model t car

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Installment plan

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Pay directly to person

“Credit”

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Model T

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Tin lizzy

Affordable-installment plan, quick, not hand crafted, used assembly line then conveyor belt

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Automobile culture

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Oil, rubber, steel, and glass industries took off
Roads were being built
Gas stations, vacations, and travel grew

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Airplanes

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Became transportation after seeing they would stay in the air during WWI
Wright brothers first only was in air for few second

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Consumer culture

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Branding and chains grew
All could experience products-began to be for convenience especially for housewives-ice box, ovens(electric), washing machine, sewing machine, telephone, iron, vacuum

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Advertising

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Originally were long lists about the item

Changed to focus on insecuritieslike status or being single

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Prohibition

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18th amendment ratified in 1919

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Bootlegger

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Producers or distributors of alcohol

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Code names for alcohol

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Moonshine, hooch, giggle water, happy juice

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Speakeasies

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Illegal underground saloons

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Mafia/mob

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Low profile until a 20s became suppliers for prohibition led to ride in crime

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Repeal of prohibition

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1933 21st amendment repealed prohibition as it obviously failed
It was FDR’s platform

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Flappers

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Many were young in their 20s didn’t want to get married wanted to be independent and liberated
Did opposite of the “norm”

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Double standard

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Casual dating-started to not just marry who they grew up with
Girls-slut
Boys-“good job”

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Education

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More finished high school then went to a trade school

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Scopes “monkey” trial

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John scopes teacher in TN teaching about evolution which was illegal as it was against fundamentalists
Clarence sorrow was lawyer and was against Williams Jennings bryan(cross of gold) was found guilty and couldn’t teach in TN

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Fundamentalists

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Takes bible as literal

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Movies

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Started in Hollywood

1st hub of movie making-silent films

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Jazz

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Started in New Orleans-AA culture-improvised
Lewis Armstrong
“Jazz age” coined by by f. Scott Fitzgerald

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Radio

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Had advertisements 1st was about soap

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Lost generation

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Modeled after earnest Hemingway most writers left America nf went to Europe mostly Paris as they felt disillusioned in america
Became ex-patriot

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Marcus Garvey

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Didn’t like how blacks were disrespected when they came back so they left-movement to Africa
UNIA
Deported to Jamaica for mail fraud

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UNIA

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Universal Negro Improvement Association

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Harlem Renaissance

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B/c great migration jobs were taken and large # of blacks were in north w/o jobs-many started to write
Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes(inspiration), Countee Cullen-black pride writings

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Over reliance of industry

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Big 3acar industry, construction, products-ran economy

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