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1920's Unit Flashcards

1
Q

What do people call the 1920’s?

A

The bridge to Modern America

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2
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From 1920-1929 what production nearly doubles?

A

car production

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3
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What was the result of car production?

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American are more mobile
Roads are paved
Highways appear

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4
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What machine allowed you to look in a machine for a few minutes and how much money was it?

A

Nickelodeon

Nickel

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5
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How many tickets were sold in the US from the Nickelodeon?

A

100 Million

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6
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By 1929, how many radios were sold?

A

4 Million

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7
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Who made the first radio broadcast and where was it?

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KDKA

Pittsburgh

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8
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What did KDKA broadcast?

A

the 1920 presidential election results

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9
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Who won the 1920 presidential election results broadcasted by the KDKA?

A

Warren Harding

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10
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What was the old record players called?

A

Phonographs

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11
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In 1921, how many phonographs were produced each year?

A

100 Million

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12
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Which two singers became heroes and heroines?

A

Duke Ellington

Louis Armstrong

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13
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What did they use for a fridge that was very inconvenient?

A

Ice Box

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14
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In 1920, how many fridges were produced?

A

5 thousand

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15
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By 1931, how many fridges were produced?

A

Over 1 million

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16
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What childhood diseases were controlled by advancing medical knowledge in the 1920’s?

A

Typhoid

Measles

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17
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What made the Us the most educated in the world?

A

Compulsory and Free primary education

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18
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What made Jaz Ragtime and blues start blaring ?

A

Through phonographs

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19
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What dance did people dance?

A

Charleston

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20
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What was the dance that was popular named after?

A

The city of Charleston

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21
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What event did huge crowds pay money to watch?

A

Sporting events

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22
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Who did 50,000 people go to watch in ballparks like Yankee stadium?

A

Babe Ruth

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23
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Who made the first solo non-stop flight ?

A

Charles A. Lindbergh

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24
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What was Charles Lindbergh’s nickname?

A

Lucky Lindy

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25
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A. Charles Lindbergh flew from _______ to ______?
B. How long did it take?
C. What ocean did he fly over?

A

A. New York to Paris
B. 33 and 1/2 Hours
C. Atlantic Ocean

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26
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The nation was finding and making new ways to do what?

A

Manufacture consumer products

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27
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In 1913, who tried the assembly line for making automobiles?

A

Henry Ford

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28
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What was Henry Ford’s ultimate goal?

A

Making cars so cheap that he could sell them by the millions

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29
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What was one improvement Henry Ford made to his assembly line?

A

He made it man high

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30
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A. Was was Henry Fords car called that was affordable?

B. When did it debut?

A

A. Model T

B. 1908

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31
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A. How much money was the original price of the Model T?
B. How many were sold in the first year?
C. Four years later what did the price drop to?

A

A. $830
B. Over 10 thousand
C. $575

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32
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By 1914, Ford could claim ___% share of the automobile market

A

48%

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33
Q

In 1920, Warren Harding was elected on a pledge of “________”?

A

“return to normalcy”

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34
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What did Warren Harding not want to peruse?

A

Reform (Progressives)

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35
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What kind of economic policies did Harding favor?

A

Conservative policies that aided business growth

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36
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What are three things that return to normalcy meant?

A
  1. Retreat from involvement and foreign affairs
  2. Rejection of progressive policies
  3. Pro-business economic policies
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37
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Who did Harding appoint his secretary of treasury?

A

Andrew Mellon

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38
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Andrew Mellon supported legislation that advanced what interests?

A

Business

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39
Q

A. Andrew Mellon did liked new______?

B. Favored low taxes on what?

A

A. Income tax

B. Corporations and Individuals

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40
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What spending did Andrew Mellon want to reduce?

A

Government Spending

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41
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Harding signed a bill that raised protective____ by 25%

Why?

A

tariffs

its easier for American producers to sell goods at home

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42
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Who retaliated making American goods harder to sell overseas?

A

Europeans

43
Q

What did tariffs do that was very bad?

A

They weakened the world economy

44
Q

Unlike progressives like T.Roosevelt and Wilson, Harding and Coolidge reduced government regulation of _____?

A

business

45
Q

Who was the secretary of commerce?

A

Herbert Hoover

46
Q

A. Herbert Hoover worked with business and labor in order to achieve what?
B. He got business and labor to do what?

A

A. Voluntary advancements

B. Work together

47
Q

Harding was not very _______ gifted.

Who did he trust to make the decisions for him ?

A

Intelligently

The ohio gang(his old poker buddies)

48
Q

Who was head of the veterans bureau?

A

Charles forbes

49
Q

Charles Forbes practiced _______ and wasted what ?

A

Graft(corruption)

Taxpayers dollars

50
Q

What is an example of what charles forbes did that was corrupt?

A

He bought 70,000 dollars worth if floor cleaner for 24 tunes the price it shouldve been

51
Q

What attorney used his position to accept money from criminals ?

A

General Harry Daughtery

52
Q

What was Harding’s worst scandal?

A

Teapot Dome Scandal

53
Q

Who was involved in the teapot dome scandal?

A

Albert Fall

54
Q

Why was the Teapot Dome a scandal?

A

Oil reserved were used for emergency only, but Harding signed a transfer

55
Q

Fall forgot that the land was leased to oil men in return for bribes. These rumors led who to investigate? What happened to fall?

A

Senate

Sentenced to one year in prison

56
Q

What did Harding die of?

A

A stroke or blood clot

57
Q

How did people mourn Harding?

A

Like they mourned Lincoln

58
Q

How was Coolidge. the vice president, sworn into office when Harding died?

A

His father used the family bible

59
Q

What was Calvin Coolidge’s nickname?

Why was it funny?

A

“Silent Cal”

He was very quotable

60
Q

Who did Coolidge follow the goals of?

What were some of these goals?

A

Andrew Mellon

Reduce national debt, Trim federal budget, Lowering taxes

61
Q

Who struggled to keep their land and why?

A

Farmers

Because prices dropped

62
Q

Who demanded higher wages and better working conditions?

A

Labor Unions

63
Q

Why did the country experience division?

A

Immigration

64
Q

The rural population was mostly _____

A

Protestants

65
Q

The growing division between cities and rural population happened over the ________trial, the rise of the ______, the _____trial, and ______

A

scopes
KKK
Sacco-Vanzetti
Prohibition

66
Q

Cities were mostly filled with what people?

A

Jewish and catholic

67
Q

People living in rural population were mostly what people?

A

Protestant

68
Q

In 1921 and 1922, who gathered in D.C. and for what?

A

Diplomats

Washington naval disarmament

69
Q

What was the conference in D.C. for?

What did it result in?

A

Wanted the US, Great Britain, and Japan to have a non-aggression pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact (Treaty to outlaw war)

70
Q

The US wanted _____ and ____ to repay war debts? For this to happen who had to make reparation payments imposed by the treaty of_____?

A

Britain and France
Versailles
Germany

71
Q

What was the plan that arranged US loans to Germany?

What was the problem with this and what resulted?

A

Dawes Plan
The whole thing was financed by the us
Ended int he stock market crash

72
Q

What created new problems such as starvation, death, revolution?
This made people _______

A

WW1

Dissatisfied

73
Q

In 1920 Census, more Americans were now living in ______ than in _____

A

Cities

Countries

74
Q

What did city people believe in?

A

Modernism

75
Q

What is modernism?

A

Science over religion

76
Q

What did country people believe in ?

A

Fundamentalism

77
Q

What is fundamentalism?

A

Every word of the Bible is the literal truth

78
Q

Where did the values of fundamentalism and modernism clash?

A

The scopes trial of 1925

79
Q

What state made a law prohibiting teachers to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution?

A

Tennessee

80
Q

What was prohibited from being taught in Tennessee ?

A

Darwin’s theory of evolution

81
Q

Who volunteered to break the law and was arrested when he did?

A

John scopes

82
Q

Who was John scopes?

A

Biology teacher from Dayton Tennessee

83
Q

What did journalists call the scopes trial?

A

“The monkey trial”

84
Q

What happened to scopes at the end of the scopes trials?

A

He was found guilty and fined $100

85
Q

During this time did people support or try to restrict the number of immigrants coming into the US?

A

Restrict

86
Q

National quotas (set number) for immigrants was introduced called the ______

A

Emergency immigration act

87
Q

What said only 150,000 immigrants were allowed to enter the US?

A

National Origins act

88
Q

By 1920’s, over half of white men and 1/3 of white woman working in manufacturing industries were _____

A

immigrants

89
Q

The KKK was originally a product of what?

A

Civil war

90
Q

When they came back in 1915 what did they do?

A

Terrorized all foreigners;

Blacks, Jews Roman, Catholics.

91
Q

How many people were in the KKK?

A

4.5 million

92
Q

Most famous criminal case that involved two people being killed. Two innocent people were accused, found guilty, and executed.

A

Sacco and Vanzetti

93
Q

What was an unlawful hanging of someone by a mob?

A

Lynchings

94
Q

Who’s home was damaged by a bomb resulting in a postman being killed?

A

Mitchell Palmer

95
Q

Mitchell believed the riots were the work of the Bolsheviks and Anarchists. He ordered mass _____

A

arrests

96
Q

Why did drys support prohibition?

A

Thought it would lower crime rates and bring family together

97
Q

Why did prohibition fail?

A

It was not enforced and it was bad for the economy

98
Q

What was actually never illegal during Prohibition?
Why did 1,000 Americans die per year?
What happened to crime rates?

A

to drink
drinking tainted liquor
increased

99
Q

Who promised to end prohibition?

A

Roosevelt

100
Q

What means discouraging the use of alcohol?

A

Temperance

101
Q

What state could woman vote?

A

New Jersey

102
Q

What amendment allowed woman to vote?

A

19th

103
Q

Who were silent sentinels?

A

Protesters outside the white house

104
Q

after what was the 19th amendment ratified?

A

WW1

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