roaring 20s Flashcards

1
Q

What kind of machines that were run by electricity were first seen in peoples homes.

A

lights, radios, fridges

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2
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What amendment granted women the right to vote.

A

The 19th amendment

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3
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What did president Warren G. Harding want to return after the war.

A

Normalcy

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4
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What affected america greatly adnd changed the way people lives

A

cars

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5
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What did the popularity of cars cause the need for?

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roads

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6
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what industries grew highly because of cars.

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glass, steel/oil, and rubber

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7
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What did the automobile also help create

A

trains

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8
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Where did people live now tha they could drive to their jobs in the city

A

suburb

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9
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What was the model-t

A

a car that was durable, easy to operate, and easy to repair. also affordable for most americans

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10
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what did many people begin to do in their lesuire time

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watch movies,boxing,baseball,and football,

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11
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who was a famous silent movei star

A

charlie chaplin

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12
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who were famous athletes

A

ty cobb,babe ruth,bobby jones, and

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13
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Who was the first american to make a nonstop flight from ny to paris

A

charles lindburgh

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14
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why did many african americans move to northern cities

A

to avoid share cropping which caused sharecropping which kept them poor

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15
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what kind of music is beocming populaur

A

jazz

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16
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who were popular jazz entertainers

A

duke ellington and louis armstrong

17
Q

who were some new popular poets

A

langston hughes,claude mckay, and zora neale hurston

18
Q

why were farmers very poor at this time

A

there was a surplus of good and lack of demand

19
Q

What was the 18th amendment

A

made it illegal to manufactor or sell alcohol

20
Q

what act was passed to enforce the 18th amendment

A

volstead act

21
Q

where would many people go to illegall alcohol

A

speakeasys

22
Q

What was the 21st amendment

A

cancelles the 18th amendment about alcohol

23
Q

why was there a rise of fear during this time

A

more members of the KKK

24
Q

what did the KKK do

A

they privided hatred towards balcks, jens, catholics, immigrants and bootleggers

25
Q

what did the KKK do

A

they burned crosses , burned down churches and even hung people.

26
Q

why did the KKK expand greatly

A

there was a rise in immigrants wich the KKK did not like

27
Q

what is the growing fear of foreigners called

A

nativism

28
Q

what was the red scare

A

fear of communism spreading throughout the us

29
Q

where did people think that these ideas came from

A

annarchist and immigrants

30
Q

What was the emergency qouta act and why was it passes

A

limited the number of immigranst so the idea of communism woud stop

31
Q

what were palmer raids

A

US attorney general conducted raids to round of communist and radicals who were deported

32
Q

What was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial

A

plyed on peoples fear of radical ,communist and anarchists. both were found guily and hung.