1920's

Question 1

charles lindbergh

Answer 1

first transatlantic plane

“spirit of st. louis” was his plane

Question 2

louis armstrong

Answer 2

jazz musician

Question 3

scopes trial

Answer 3

john scopes
science teacher who got in trouble for teaching evolution 
was represented by clarence darrow 
william jennings was on the other side 
was found guilty

Question 4

warren g harding

Answer 4

republican running president
his platform was; return to normalcy, life before the war hit
Had a cabinet that consisted of people good for the job and people who were there because they were his friends (took part in his downfall)
died on a trip to alaska

Question 5

hardings cabinet

good side

Answer 5

charles evans hugh's ( sec. of state )
herbert hoover ( sec. of commerce, business )
andrew mellon ( head of treasury, banker )
henry c wallace (sec of agriculture, prof at agriculture college )

Question 6

hardings cabinet ( not so good side )

Answer 6

ohio gang
harry daugherty ( lawyer )
albert b fall

Question 7

harding interesting facts

Answer 7

grew up on ohio farm 
his wife had big ambitions 
wanted to please everyone 
first pres to have radio in white house
first businessman president

Question 8

1st in hardings downfall

Answer 8

began to hear stories of corruption
1st veterans bureau
charles forbes
250 mill dollars missing
forbes allowed to leave country
brought back and sent to leavensworth
released in 1927 ( forbes council committed suicide )

Question 9

2nd in hardings downfall

Answer 9

jessie smith
aid to justice department
accused of selling influence
committed suicide

Question 10

3rd in hardings downfall ( played a big role in it )

Answer 10

thomas miller
    alien property custodian 
    accused of selling for profit
     property taken from germans 
     daugherty also tried but not convicted

Question 11

4th in hardings downfall ( also a big role in his downfall )

Answer 11

teapot dome
    wyoming
    had oil supply 
    promised land in return for gifts and "loans" worth 325,000
    albert fall
     imprisoned
     leases canceled by supreme court

Question 12

red scare

Answer 12

a mitchell palmer; us attorney general

uss buford ( boat used to send russian workers back )

Question 13

immigration league

Answer 13

all immigrants must be able to read
racial religious and ethnic prejudices
cut immigration from russia poland and italy
restrict others from eastern and southern europe

Question 14

calvin coolidge

Answer 14

helped end boston police strike
finished hardings term
ran as a republican with vp charles dawes
“keep cool with coolidge”

Question 15

sacco and vendetti

Answer 15

italian anarchists and immigrants 
arrested
martyrs 
shoe factory 
no criminal records
sacco was for sure guilty

Question 16

prohibition

Answer 16

18th amendment
abolished the manufacture transportation and sale of alcohol
volstead act (federal enforcement of the act )

Question 17

al capone

Answer 17

notorious gangster
empire from florida to chicago and chicago to ny
st valentine’s day massacre

Question 18

st valentine’s day massacre

Answer 18

1929 chicago mob hit
moran got call that alcohol was coming in
7 subordinates came in and were gunned down

Question 19

capones arrest

Answer 19

for taxivation

died in jail

Question 20

dawes plan

Answer 20

allowed for american banks to make loans to germany for war repression influencing europe

Question 21

fundamentalism

Answer 21

a movement that affirmed the literal truth of the bible

Question 22

red scare

Answer 22

a fear of bolshevism

Question 23

coolidge fun facts

Answer 23

slept 9 hours each night and took 2-4 hour naps everyday
silent cow
lawyer
he was honest thrifty hardworking s good speaker and not forceful
had long political history

Question 24

coolidge cont.

Answer 24

not a lot of foreign affairs
opposed league of nations
criticized for lack of forcefulness and political leadership
admitted to partial responsibility for depression
laisses fair attitude

Question 25

city vs country split

Answer 25

democrats split in two sides during 1924 election city: will mcadoo and al smith country: john david and charles bryan

Question 26

immigration

Answer 26

``` issues: kkk nationalist feelings ethnocentrism grew those involved: h.w evans d stephenson kkk palmer outcome: immigration act in 1912 national origins act fear and hostility grew ```

Question 27

ford

Answer 27

ford motors: african american workers increased only catch was fords morality clause he paid very well required checks on houses for abuse and alcohol use ford model t

Question 28

harlem renaissance

Answer 28

why? great migration anger ( discrimination etc) racial consciousness and racial integration what? era or written and artistic creativity among african americans. started as discussions where: greenwich and harlem common themes: alienation marginality use of folk material use of blues traditions expresses own identity racism was at first called the new negro movement

Question 29

harlem ren. famous people

Answer 29

``` josephine baker claude mckay louis armstrong duke ellington bessie smith cj walker ( first black female millionaire ) harlem hospital ( staffed by black doctors and nurses ) ny black yankees ``` dubois: need political action now t washington: accept discrimination

Question 30

harlem ren events

Answer 30

harlem globetrotters first anti lynching legislation 1932 failed to pass first black writer on broadway

Question 31

1928 election

Answer 31

coolidge doesn't run again republicans went with hoover democrats went with al smith

Question 32

hoover

Answer 32

sec of commerce wanted to keep prohibition bug business, small towns, rural america

Question 33

hoover cont.

Answer 33

``` the great engineer "chicken in every pot" symbol of hope and ideals iowa born with farmer parents quakers orphaned at ten went to stanford millionaire by forty ```

Question 34

hoovers political career

Answer 34

wwi head of food admin. relief work after wwi

Question 35

hoovers foreigners affairs

Answer 35

concern for people stinson doctorine ( policy or non recognition ) latin america ( relations improve ) smoot - hawley terrif

Question 36

garvey

Answer 36

``` educated journalist filled with ambition encouraged african americans to to return to africa to establish a country and a government on their own universal negro improvement association Back to africa ```