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The 1920s Flashcards

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What was the urban life like? List a few characteristics.

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Urban life was in the cities. There were large crowds of strangers and ambitious young people wanted to make money. No morals or traditional things.

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During the 1920s what continued to accelerate?

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Urbanization

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What was the rural life like? List a few characteristics.

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Rural life was people who lived in the country. A lot of isolation from neighbors. It was safer, citizens worked harder, and people still had morals. Men were polite and wedding vows were still sacred.

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Prohibition went into place with the ____ Amendment.

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18th

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The new prohibition law made it illegal to do what?

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To make, sell, or transport liquor.

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What were a few reasons for Prohibition?

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Husbands were abusing their wives and children. Children picked up on bad habits from abusive fathers. Money was being wasted on alcohol instead of feeding his family.

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To obtain liquor illegally drinkers went ___________ __ ______ _______ known as ___________.

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To obtain liquor illegally drinkers went underground to hidden saloons known as speakeasies.

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People also bought liquor from ___________ who ________ it in from what 3 places?

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To obtain liquor from bootleggers who smuggled it in from Canada, Cuba, and West Indies.

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What contributed to the growth of organized crime in every major city?

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Prohibition

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Chicago became home to who and what was he famous for and how did he take control of the liquor business?

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Chicago became home to Al Capone (famous bootlegger) who took control of the liquor business by killing competition.

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What did the government fail to do?

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Control liquor

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The task of enforcing Prohibition fell to what?

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1,500 poorly paid federal agents clearly an impossible tax.

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By the mid 1920s only ___% supported Prohibition-they thought it caused more problems than it solved.

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19%

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The ____ Amendment finally repealed Prohibition in 1933.

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The 21st Amendment finally repealed Prohibition in 1933.

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A 1920’s battleground was between what 2 groups over the truths of science?

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Fundamentalist Religious Groups and Secular Thinkers.

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What is fundamentalism?

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The Protestant movement grounded in the literal interpretation of the bible.

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March 1925 what state passed the nations first law making it a crime to teach what subject?

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Tennessee; evolution

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What does ACLU stand for?

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American Civil Liberty Union

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What did the ACLU promise?

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To defend any teacher who challenged the law.

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Who decided to fight the law about the teaching of evolution?

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John Scope

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Who did the ACLU hire?

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Clarence Darrow

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Who did the prosecution hire?

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William Jennings Bryan

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When did the trial open?

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July 10, 1925

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What was the key question and the key answer of the Scope trial?

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Key Question: Should the bible be interpreted literally?

Key Answer: Admited the bible can be interpreted in different ways.

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What was the verdict of the Scope trial?

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Scopes was found guilty and fined $100.

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Women were becoming more what?

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Independent and achieving greater freedoms

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What was a flapper?

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Flappers were emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes.

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Many women entered the workplace as …

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Teachers, nurses, librarians, and secretaries.

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Women earned ____ than men and were kept out of many traditional male jobs (management) and faced what?

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Women earned less than men and faced discrimination.

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As the 1920s unfolded many features changed leading what to emerge?

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The modern family

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Marriage was based on love and what did wives manage?

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The household and finances

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Children were no longer considered wage earners but rather what?

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Developing children who needed nurturing and education

32
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What happened as literacy rates increased?

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Newspaper circulation rose and mass-circulation magazines flourished.

33
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What was the most powerful communication tool to emerge in the 20s, allowed news to be delivered faster and to a larger audience?

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The radio

34
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In 1929 Americans spent how much money on entertainment?

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4.5 billion

35
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America’s most beloved hero was a small-town pilot named _______ _________, he made the first what?

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Charles Lindbergh; nonstop solo transatlantic flight

36
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Lindbergh flew the what from where and to where in how many hours?

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He flew The Spirit of St. Louis from NYC to Paris in 33 hours

37
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What was the first sound movie and what year?

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Jazz Singer in 1927

38
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Who was the farmed composer who merged traditional elements with American Jazz?

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George Gershwin

39
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Who depicted the loneliness of American Life?

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Edward Hopper

40
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Who captured the grandeur of NYC using intense-colored canvas?

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Georgia O’Keef

41
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Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

42
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Who wrote the Age of Innocence that dramatized the clash between traditional and modern values?

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Edith Warton

43
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Who served in WWI and became the best known author of the era and one of the most popular of all time- his novels “The Sun Also Rises” and “A Farewell To Arms” criticized the glorification of war?

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Ernest Hemingway

44
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Some writers were soured by American culture they decided to settle in Europe- they formed a group called what?

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The Lost Generation

45
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What saw hundreds of thousands of African Americans move north to bigger cities?

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The Great Migration

46
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Why did people move in The Great Migration?

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There were more jobs, better entertainment, and less racism.

47
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By 1920 over __ _______ or __% of the nations African Americans lived in cities.

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12 Million or 40%

48
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What does the NAACP stand for?

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

49
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What did the NAACP do?

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They urged African Americans to protest racial violence

50
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Who was a NAACP founding member lead a march of 10,000 in NY to protest violence?

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W.E.B Dubois

51
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What did Marcus Garvey believe and what was his legacy?

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that African Americans should build a separate society and the legacy was black pride, economic independence and Pan Africanism.

52
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What became the largest black urban community in the US but suffered from what?

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Harlem, NY; overcrowding, unemployment, and poverty.

53
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The literary and artistic revival is known as what?

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Harlem Renaissance

54
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What did the Harlem Renaissance lead to?

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Led to the well-educated who had a new sense of pride in the African American experience.

55
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The Harlem Renaissance’s best known poet was who?

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Langston Hughes

56
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Langston Hughes poems described what?

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Difficult lives of working class blacks

57
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Paul Robeson was the son of a slave and made it name in ______ primarily his role in _______.

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Acting; Othello

58
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Who started in NOLA and moved to NYC and he was considered the most important and influential musician in the history of jazz?

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Louis Armstrong

59
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Who was a pianist and was known as one of America’s greatest what?

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Duke Ellington; American Composers

60
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Who was a popular blues signer and by 1927 was the highest paid black artist in the world?

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Bessie Smith

61
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As a result of an economic downturn what did many people face?

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Unemployment

62
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Because of the realities of war many americans adopted a belief in isolation which meant little or no ___________ in world affairs?

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Involvement

63
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One major percieved threat to American life was the spread of _________ which is characterized by what?

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Economic and political system based on single-governmental party, equal distribution of resources, no private property and rule by dicatorshp.

64
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In 1917 who led the Bolsheviks revolution over the Russian Czar- he was a follower of the Marxist doctrine of social equality.

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Vladimir Lenin

65
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Red scare adn nativism lead to a growth of what group and how many members where in the group in 1924?

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KKK had 4.5 million members.

66
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What act of 1921 set up a quota system to regulate immigration?

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The Emergency Quota Act

67
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In 1919 more than _____ strikes took place involving over _ million workers.

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3000 strikes and 4 million workers

68
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US Steel Corp refused to meet with union reps resulting in over ___,___ workers striking.

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300,000

69
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In 1920’s union membership why did it drop from 5 million to 3.5 million?

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African Americans were excluded from membership and immigrants were willing to work in poor conditions.

70
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Warren G Harding successes included the Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounced war as a nation policy signed by how many nations?

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15 nations

71
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List some changes cars led to.

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  • Paved roads
  • Traffic lights
  • Shopping centers
  • Home design
  • Motels and buildboards
  • Freedom of rural families
72
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By 1920 what percent of worlds vehicles were the U.S.?

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80%

73
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The 20’s were very prosperous for the US. Americans owned what percent of the worlds wealth?

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40%

74
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The average annual income rose 35% from what to what leading to an increase in discretionary income?

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$522 to $705

75
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What is discretionary income?

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Money you do not have to spend on bills. You can use the money to go see a movie or entertainment.

76
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What were some electric household appliances?

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  • Electric refridgerators
  • Stoves
  • Irons
  • Toasters
  • Vacuums
  • Washing machines
  • Sewing machines
77
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Ads became more targeted tried to appeal to American desire for ?

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Youthfulness, beauty, health, and wealth

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