Chapter 19 and 20: Rise of the 20's

Question 1

100% americanism

Answer 1

celebrated all things American while attacking all ideas and people it viewed as foreign or anti-American

Question 2

germans

Answer 2

reds; the huns

Question 3

red scare

Answer 3

widespread fear of communism and radicals

Question 4

A Mitchell Palmer

Answer 4

attorney general who had a series of raids

Question 5

fundamentalism

Answer 5

believes the Bible is literally true

Question 6

Palmer raids

Answer 6

series of raids arresting immigrants and communists

Question 7

Seattle, Washington

Answer 7

ship yards; nation’s first general strike

Question 8

Boston

Answer 8

police force went on strike for low wages and poor working conditions

Question 9

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 9

governor of Boston; calls in militia; didn’t like to talk

Question 10

national origins act of 1924

Answer 10

set quotas for each country at 2% of the number of people from that country currently living in the US

Question 11

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 11

anarchists; didn’t like the government; Italian immigrants; arrested for armed robbery and murder

Question 12

Henry Ford

Answer 12

assembly line

Question 13

wellfare capitalism

Answer 13

system where companies provide benefits to employees to promote worker satisfaction and loyalty

Question 14

car effects

Answer 14

demands for car materials soared; steel, rubber, and glass; repair shops and filling stations; motels and restaurants

Question 15

installment buying

Answer 15

paying for an item over time in small payments

Question 16

credit

Answer 16

borrowing money

Question 17

farmers

Answer 17

competing from Europe; not doing good; tariff making foreign farm products more expensive

Question 18

natural disasters

Answer 18

boll weevil; Mississippi River flood; Big Blow, first hurricane

Question 19

Warren G Harding

Answer 19

return to “normalcy”; life pre- WW1; believed less government in business and more business in government; government would be more accountable to the tax payers; help wealthy

Question 20

fordney- mccumber tariff

Answer 20

raised the cost of foreign farm products and American farm products

Question 21

Albert Fall

Answer 21

secretary of the interior; teapot dome scandal

Question 22

teapot dome scandal

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let oilmen drill on federally reserved navy land form bribes; Fall; Teapot, Wyoming

Question 23

Washington naval conference

Answer 23

countries cut back the size of navies; scrap existing ships and ones under construction

Question 24

Charles Evans Hughes

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secretary of state; took credit for the Washington naval conference

Question 25

Billy Mitchell

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argued US should invest more in air power

Question 26

scuttle

Answer 26

sink; get rid of

Question 27

Frank Kellog

Answer 27

Secretary of State; proposed agreement of pact

Question 28

Kellog- Briand pact

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all countries who signed it renounced war as a solution for international controversies; more than 60 nations signed

Question 29

flappers

Answer 29

young girls going against social normal; cut hair and short dresses; mostly in cities; drinking and dancing

Question 30

Billy Sunday

Answer 30

former ballplayer and ordinated minister; fundamentalist

Question 31

Aimee Semple McPherson

Answer 31

fundamentalist preacher; healing sick through prayer

Question 32

Scopes trial

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John Scopes; taught evolution and arrested; found guilty; eventually overturned

Question 33

Clarence Darrow

Answer 33

represented John Scopes

Question 34

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 34

prosecutor; "scholar"

Question 35

bootleggers

Answer 35

smuggled alcohol

Question 36

speakasies

Answer 36

illegal bars with passwords

Question 37

Great Migration

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blacks in the south moved upward; Chicago, New York, Detroit

Question 38

Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem, New York; jazz music; rebirth in Harlem

Question 39

Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican immigrant; back to Africa; mail fraud; went back to Africa after being in jail; UNIA

Question 40

universal negro improvement association

Answer 40

promoted self reliance for blacks without white involvement

Question 41

mail fraud

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sending someone money in the mail for a service and never receiving the service

Question 42

Marconi

Answer 42

late 1800s; invented the radio

Question 43

KDKA

Answer 43

first radio station in 1920

Question 44

the jazz singer

Answer 44

first talkie movie

Question 45

steamboat willie

Answer 45

Mickey Mouse

Question 46

Charles Lindburg

Answer 46

first to fly a plane solo and nonstop transatlantic

Question 47

Lindburg baby

Answer 47

federal law to kidnap a baby; Charles son

Question 48

Amelia Erheart

Answer 48

first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic