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1920's and WW1 Flashcards

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Causes of the Dust Bowl

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Drought
High winds
Dry farming
Overproduction of crops

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Jazz

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Important style of music characterized by use of improvisation (breaking the rules)

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Prohibition resulted in

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Rise of organized crime
Corruption and lax enforcement by state and local authorities
Substantial decrease in drinking in some regions of the country
Increase in drinking among women in eastern cities

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Contributed to the liberation of women in the 20’s

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Hollywood
Household appliances
Cars
19th amendment

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In the 1920’s financial success meant

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Bad loans, shrewd investments, and getting rich quick

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FDIC

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Created through the glass steagall act, improved banking system by protecting peoples savings against loss

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Writers of the 20’s criticized

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American materialism

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“Get rich quick” is best illustrated by

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The stock market

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Speculation

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A practice of short-term investment in which a person buys a commodity purely for the purpose of selling it for a profit

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Calvin Coolidge became national figure during

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Boston Police Strike

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Scopes trial

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A collision between modern science and old fundamentalist values

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Allowed people to buy now and pay later

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Installment plan

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Ideal american according the the KKK

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WASP

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Bootlegger

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A person who sells makes or smuggles illegal alcohol

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What drove the price of cars down during the 20s

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Competition

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Margin

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Contributed to the speculation fever

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Flipping

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Another word for speculation

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Woolworths and Piggly Wiggly among the first

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Chain stores

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Washing machines

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Among many of the household appliances introduced during the 20s

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SEC

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Past after the Glass-Steagall

Monitors the stock market and enforces laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds

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Babe Ruth

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Sultan of swat

baseball hero of the 20s

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Marcus Garvey

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Leader of the black identity; started a movement for black pride even though his back to Africa plan failed

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Italian immigrants executed for murder and robbery, but many believe they were framed because of the radical political view

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Langston Hughes

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Consider the poet laureate of the black race

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Al capone

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Chicago gangster

the most famous bootlegger of the Prohibition era

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Louis Armstrong

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Jazz musician who is credited with bringing the jazz sound of north from New Orleans to Chicago and St. Louis

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John scopes

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Arrested in Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution

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Warren G Harding

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President whose administration was riddled with scandals

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Al Smith

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Democratic nominee for president in 1928
First Catholic to run
For the first time, southern states voted Republican

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Ernest Hemingway

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American writer who emerged from the lost generation to be one of the century’s greatest… Authoring a farewell to arms , the old man and the sea and many more classics

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T.S. Eliot

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“We are the Hollow men”

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

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My candle burns at both ends

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Slavs

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A group of people in Central Eastern and southeastern Europe whose languages come from the same root

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Zimmerman note

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A telegram from the German for minister, proposing that Mexico attack the US in event of war

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Lusitania

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A British passenger ship caring ammunition as a cargo that was sunk by Germany in 1915

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Sedition acts of 1918

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The most severe restriction on free speech in American history

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Freedom of the seas

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The right of every nation to navigate the ocean without interference

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Sussex pledge

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A German promise to end unrestricted submarine warfare

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Nationalism

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Feelings of pride, unity, and loyalty in one’s country or ethnic group

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Isolationism

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The policy of avoiding all alliances with other nations

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AEF

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Name of the American army sent to France to fight World War I

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Imperialism

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Expensing up of one nation over others politically, economically, and militarily.

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Committee for public info

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Government agency which employed hundreds of writers to sell the war to the American public propaganda

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After the assassination of franz Ferdinand, Austria Hungary invaded this country, which began World War I

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Serbia

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Belgium

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The invasion of this country, who had proclaimed neutrality, cause hostility toward Germany in the US

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This group seized power in Russia in November 1917 and pulled rush out of the war causing the US to be very angry with Russia to this day

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Bolsheviks

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League of Nations

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The basis for Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points was an international peacekeeping organization

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Event that started World War I

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The assassination of Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary

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At the beginning of the war in Europe, in 1914, President Wilson

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Declared the US neutral neutral

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Which country withdrew from the war in 1917 and made a separate peace with Germany

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Russia

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Wilson try to establish a lasting peace by

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Disarming all nations

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The group that did not get it independence as a result of the Treaty of Versailles

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The Irish

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Easter rising

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Name for the failed Irish revolt against Britain

Pre-AP American History (9 decks)

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