Roaring 20's (WiP) Flashcards

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10/18 textbook pages link

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/10hZWtW-zZZg6GFLyYZZuG5Ct6LxUSNyR/view

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what was americas fp after ww1/in the 20s

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isolationist

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what was american attitude towards foreigners during the beginning of this time period

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they were xenophobic and closed the gates to immigration, and were not open to foreign ideas and untraditional lifestyles

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who were the presidents during this time period and what were their political parties

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all republican
warren g. harding
calvin coolidge
herbert hoover

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how does the textbook define the us’s military at the beginning of this period

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“military unpreparedness”

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what large change was during this era

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industrial revolution

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what was the most prominent invention in this era

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automobile

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what invention did the americans adapt

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internal combustion gasoline fueled engine

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9
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who was important in developing the automobile industry

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henry ford

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when was ford’s first model t (tin lizzie) produced and how did people describe it

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first produced in 1908
cheap, rugged, reasonably reliable, rough, clattering

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11
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how many cars were on the road by 1920

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8 mil

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how many cars were on the road by the end of the decade

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23 mil

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Who was Andrew Mellon and what did he do

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He was the ww1 and treasury secretary and his tax policies brought prosperity to the mid-1920s.

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14
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Who founded advertising

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Bruce Barton

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what became a big business in the 1920s

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Sports became a big business in the consumer economy of the 1920s.

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what became popular in the post-war economy, and what did that cause

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buying on credit

Prosperity thus led to increased personal debt, and the economy became increasingly vulnerable to disruptions of the credit structure.

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what demographic change occured during this period

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more people moved to cities
rural to urban

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18
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who led a birth control movement

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margaret sanger

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19
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who formed the national womens party and when

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alice paul 1923

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20
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why was the national womens party created

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to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

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what did the modernists believe and who did they beat

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beat the fundamentalists
who believed that God was a “good guy” and the universe was a friendly place.

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what were flappers and what did they signify

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young women who expressed their disdain for traditional women behavior by wearing short skirts, drinking, driving cars, and smoking. and showed how sex appeal was increasing during this time period

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what did dr sigmund freud argue

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sexual repression was responsible for a variety of emotional problems.

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what type of music thrived during this period

25
what was the United Negro Improvement Association and who founded it
founded by marcus garvey to promote the resettlement of blacks in Africa. In the United States, the UNIA also sponsored stores and other businesses to keep blacks' dollars in black pockets.
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susette la flesche
In 1879, Susette La Flesche, a young Omaha woman, traveled east to translate into English the sad words of Chief Standing Bear, whose Ponca people had been forcibly removed from their home-land in Nebraska. Later, she was invited with Chief Standing Bear to go on a lecture tour to draw attention to the Ponca's situation.
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what act did la flesche advocate for
the dawes act
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what was the dawes act of 1887
La Flesche testified before congressional committees and helped win passage of the Dawes Act of 1887, which allowed individual Native Americans to claim reservation land and citizenship rights.
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how is la flesche representative of the new roles for women
her activism was an example of a new role for American women, who were expanding their participation in public life.
30
what did the work for women look like pre-civil war
Before the Civil War, married middle-class women were generally expected to devote their time to the care of their homes and families.
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how did the role of women change in the late nineteenth century
lower class women didn't have the luxury of staying home to tend to their families and the house, they needed to work to support the familys income
32
what was the role of farm women during the progressive era
On farms in the South and the Midwest, women's roles had not changed substantially since the previous century. In addition to household tasks such as cooking, making clothes, and laundering, farm women handled a host of Other chores such as raising livestock. Often the women had to help plow and plant the fields and harvest the crops.
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how and where did more jobs open up for women
As better-paying opportunities became available in towns, and especially cities, women had new options for finding jobs, even though men's labor unions excluded them from membership.
34
how many women had jobs at the turn of the 19th century
one out of five american women held jobs, 25 percent of them worked in manufacturing
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where did women industrial workers typically work
the garment trade claimed about half of all women industrial workers. They typically held the least skilled posi-tions, however, and received only about half as much money as their male counterparts or less. Many of these women were single and were assumed to be supporting only themselves, while men were assumed to be supporting families.
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what jobs did women begin to fill that required a high school education
offices, stores, classrooms by 1890, women high school graduates outnumbered men.
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what types of jobs did new business schools prepare women for
book-keepers and stenographers, as well as training female typists to operate the new machines
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what are domestic workers at the turn of the nineteenth century
Many women without formal education or industrial skills contributed to the economic survival of their families by doing domestic work, such as cleaning for other families.
39
what forced african american women into the work force
after almost 2 million African-American women were freed from slavery, poverty quickly drove nearly half of them into the work force.
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what jobs were african american women employed in
They worked on farms and as domestic workers, and migrated by the thousands to big cities for jobs as cooks, laundresses, scrub-women, and maids. Altogether, roughly 70 percent of women employed in 1870 were servants.
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what jobs were unmarried women typically employed in
Unmarried immigrant women also did domestic labor, especially when they first arrived in the United States. Many married immigrant women contributed to the family income by taking in piecework or caring for boarders at home.
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what were the reasons female industrial workers pushed for reform
Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms.
43
what happened at the triangle shirtwaist factory in nyc
there was a fire in 1911 and 146 mostly female workers perished
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what were womens clubs and what did they do
womens clubs were where women discussed art and literature and sometimes grew into reform groups that addressed issues such as temperance or child labor.
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what was a similarity among most women who had become active in public life
they all had graduated from college
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what were three new womens colleges
vassar, smith, and wellesley colleges
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what were three colleges that refused to admit women and instead established separate colleges for them
harvard, brown, columbia
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how did womens options change during this time
marriage was not the only option and many women got jobs or sought higher education, some never even getting married
49
https://web.kamihq.com/web/viewer.html?state=%7B%22ids%22%3A%5B%22158RS0nWBZYAiW1PTO0D4yWPDHXaRqzDh%22%5D%2C%22action%22%3A%22open%22%2C%22userId%22%3A%22117756251954500867338%22%2C%22resourceKeys%22%3A%7B%7D%7D&kami_user_id=8760951
p. 3/4 women and reform
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/10hZWtW-zZZg6GFLyYZZuG5Ct6LxUSNyR/view
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