Chapter 24 Flashcards by Alex Rollins

what is capitalism

an economic system of private property and free enterprise

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what did the US do during WWI

took away some liberties

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what are anarchists

people who believe there should be not government

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what did the anarchists do

shipped bombs to important people

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what was the Red Scare

when the american people were afraid of communists taking over our country

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who was the attorney general in 1920

palmer

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who was plamer’s right hand man

J. Edger Hoover

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what did Palmer and hoover do after WWI

they lead the Palmer raids

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what is deported mean

expelled from a country

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who were sacco and vanzetti

Italian immigrants who were convicted of murder and were given the chair

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who wrote the defense for sacco and vanzetti

frankfurter

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who thought frankfurter was vicious propaganda

taft

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what did the strike workers want

higher pay and shorter working hours

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who said there is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone anywhere any time

Coolidge

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what happened to the police officers who striked

they were fired

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who started the brotherhood of car porters

A. Philip Randolph

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who started the universal negro Improvement association

marcus Garvey

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who were the candidates for the 1920 election rep

harding and Coolidge

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what was hardings slogan

return to normalcy

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who were the dem candidates for the 1920 election

cox and FDR

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what was the teapot dome

when secretary of interior fall was convicted of accepting bribes

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who used front porch

harding

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what happened to harding

he had a heart attack and died

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coolidge nickname

silent cal

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what was coolidge's opinion of a good gov

best gov is the lest gov

what did coolidge do

lowered income tax and helped the rich

who were the first women to be elected

ross and ferguson

what did we do with world affairs

isolationism

what was the five power treaty

US france italy japan Great britian to limit the power of the navy

what was the Kellogg-Briand Pact

outlawed war

what is a recession

a economic down turn

what is the total value of the nations goods and services produced

gross national product

what made industrial growth possible

tech and electricity

what is hiring people to study how quickly goods could be made

scientific management

what is having health insurance for your workers and having them buy stock

welfare capitalism

what is installment buying

buy now pay later

what was the car capital of the world

Detroit

what industries did the boom of cars help

steel rubber glass

cars helped the what grow

suburbs

who was left out of the boom

farmers

who flew a plane across the ocean in one trip

lindbergh

which amendment said girls could vote

19th

what did women get more of

jobs outside home

what was a modern 20s women

flapper

what was the movie capital of USA

hollywood

what was the first talkie

the jazz Singer

what was the first radio station

KDKA

what were the first TV channels

CBS and NBC

what started the commercials

radio

3 sports that got popular

baseball football boxing

who brought baseball back

babe Ruth

football star

Red Grange

first women to swim across the English channel

Gertrude Ederle

what popular thing for women started

Ms USA pageant

trumpets

Louis Armstrong

pianst and composer

duke ellingtion

singer

bessie Smith

aa writter

langston Hughes

name 4 aa writers

Johnson McKay Cullen Hurston

people who moved to a different country

expatriates

who called ex-pa rootless the lost generation

Gertrude Stein

who wrote the Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

who wrote a farwell to arms and the sun also rises

hemingway

who wrote main street babbitt

lewis

wiensburg Ohio

anderson

what amendment said no liquor

18th

what act said no liquor

Volsted Act

what two people were in 20s

wets and drys

what did people make that was legal liquor

bathtub gin

a place that sold liquor

speakeasies

who was the mob boss

al capone

what was probation called

the noble experiment

what amendment said that liquor was legal

what came back in the 20s

kkk

what is the emergency quota act

said only 3% of the population could be immigrants

what was the national origins act

said that only 2% of the population could be immigrants

where was the money trail

tennesse

who supported not teaching darwin

fundamentalists

who broke the law about darwin

scopes

who was the lawyer for fundamentalists

william bryan

who was the lawyer for scopes

darrow

what was the outcome of the monkey trial

scopes lost

who was the rep of the 1927 election

hoover

who was the dem for the 1927 election and was the first roman catholic running person

smith

Chapter 24 Flashcards

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