1920-1930 Flashcards
was the 1920’s or 1930’s a very prosperous time for the US?
1920’s
in the 1920’s what did the US just do?
helped win WW1
what did the 1920’s offer the US?
jobs were plentiful, businesses are putting out new, cutting edge products
what did expendable incomes allow for families in the 1920’s?
allowed families to splurge on luxuries and encourages growth of arts and pop cultures
what did the 18th amendment do for the 1920’s that started a new age?
banned alcohol and started prohibition
what did less alcohol do?
stabilized family life, but rose organized crime
while prosperous, 1920’s also was a time for what?
a time for division, tension and fear of outsiders
what was an event during the tension of the 1920’s?
the red scare
what did Americans start to grow fearful of in the 1920’s?
communism after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 that installed Vladmir Lenin and the Marxist ideology in Russia
The US already has 70,000 what?
registered members of the communist party
what happened in 1919 in a New York postal office?
a postal worker found 20 bombs that were mailed to a variety of government officials
in 1919 when were the bombs that were sent to government officials sent to explode
on May day, a public holiday celebrated on May 1st to celebrate workers
A bomb exploded on wall street on september 16 and killed 30 people, who did people blame?
communists and Russian immigrants
why was the federal bureau of investigation founded and who was its first director?
to investigate and J. Edgar Hoover
several labor strikes take place and many leaders convince the public what?
it is because of communists
what was banned in cities like Cleveland, OH?
red flags
why were “Palmer Raids” put together and who conducted it?
to root out suspected radicals of suspected bombing and Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
what is nativism?
fear or suspicion of immigrants
what skyrocketed in the 1920’s?
immigration
what was the emergency quota act of 1921?
regulated immigration to the US
who were the exceptions to of the emergency quota act?
Canada, Mexico, Caribbean
who can the anti- immigrant sentiment best be seen with?
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
who were Nicola sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
2 socialist men who dodged the draft from WW2
who were accused of a recent crime, of which there was never any direct evidence
Sacco and Vanzetti
a factory worker was killed and robbed. Sacco and Vanzetti were accused and arrested after witnesses said “_________” did it
Italian looking men
All evidence was circumstantial but anti- immigrant sentiment won out:
they were executed by electric chair
the KKK was revived in the 1920’s this time with a…
strong anti-immigrant sentiment
what was the new KKK inspired by?
the movie in 1915 the birth of a nation
the KKK opposed what and what did they do as a hate symbol?
unions, communism, immigration and began burning crosses
the KKK march in Washington when?
1925
Had 6 million members by 1924, but FBI prosecution leads fall to how many members by 1930?
30,000
why did many riots occur?
Americans of many different races
what was the Tulsa Race massacre of 1921?
mobs of white people attacked African Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma and targeted the wealthy black community known as “Black Wall Street”
when did riots break out in the Tulsa race massacre?
when Dick Rowland, a black show shiner, was falsely accused of assaulting a white elevator operator
riots left how many African Americans homeless and caused how much in property damage?
10,000 and 1.5 million
when did riots start to break out?
when Eugene Williams, a young African American male drifted into a whites only swimming pool
how many people were killed when riots broke out after the swimming pool problem?
38 people were killed , 23 black and 15 white
the worst of the what of 1919?
“red summer” riots
what made the 1920’s the worst in terms of race relations?
the great migration that started in 1916 greatly changed the makeup of the united states
over 6 million african americans sought better opportunities and moved out of where and went to where?
moved out of rural southern areas and went to northern urban areas
in 1900 90% of all African Americans lived in the south, by 1970 what percent of African Americans lived in the north and west?
50%
as African Americans moved into previously white dominated areas, many in the white America created a what kind of attitude?
us vs them
competition of what increased while what decreased as a large labor pool pushed what down?
jobs and wages
who ran as a democrat to replace woodrow wilson and hoped his popularity during WW1 would enable his win?
James Cox
who was the republican who ran against James Cox and urged a “return to normalcy” now that the war was over?
Warren Harding
who wins the election in a landslide and becomes the 29th president of the US?
Warren Harding
what was filled with corruption and one of the most scandal ridden in history?
presidency
what was the largest scandal in 1923?
the teapot dome scandal
what was the teapot dome?
a natural oil reserve in wyoming. It was set aside for an emergency reserve for the US navy
Albert Fall, secretary of the interior, accepted bribes to allow what?
to allow the mammoth oil company to drill on the dome
how much did Albert Fall receive from drilling on the Dome
325,000 and property
when did Albert fall get convicted and serve a year in jail?
1929
President Harding was on a western tour of the country when Albert Fall died of what before he could answer questions about the scandal?
a heart attack
how involved was harding, how much did he know about Albert Fall?
we will never know
vice president Coolidge assumes office and runs for relection when?
1924
Coolidge was able to distance himself from the corrupt what?
Harding administration and easily wins the reelection
Coolidge overseas the what Pact in 1925
Kellog-Briand Pact
what was the the Kellog- Briand Pact of 1925
a goodwill gesture by the world’s countries to never fight a war again
who helped create a plan to help Germans repay its reperations from the treaty of versailles?
Vice President Charles Dawes
what was the plan to help Germans repay owed things from the treaty of versailles?
offered loans to Germany to pay Britain and France back- which in turn could pay the Us back and Dawes received the Nobel prize for his work on the plan
who served as secreatry of the Treasury under Harding, Coolidge and the future president Hoover
Andrew Mellon
