1920's Unit Flashcards
What do people call the 1920’s?
The bridge to Modern America
From 1920-1929 what production nearly doubles?
car production
What was the result of car production?
American are more mobile
Roads are paved
Highways appear
What machine allowed you to look in a machine for a few minutes and how much money was it?
Nickelodeon
Nickel
How many tickets were sold in the US from the Nickelodeon?
100 Million
By 1929, how many radios were sold?
4 Million
Who made the first radio broadcast and where was it?
KDKA
Pittsburgh
What did KDKA broadcast?
the 1920 presidential election results
Who won the 1920 presidential election results broadcasted by the KDKA?
Warren Harding
What was the old record players called?
Phonographs
In 1921, how many phonographs were produced each year?
100 Million
Which two singers became heroes and heroines?
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
What did they use for a fridge that was very inconvenient?
Ice Box
In 1920, how many fridges were produced?
5 thousand
By 1931, how many fridges were produced?
Over 1 million
What childhood diseases were controlled by advancing medical knowledge in the 1920’s?
Typhoid
Measles
What made the Us the most educated in the world?
Compulsory and Free primary education
What made Jaz Ragtime and blues start blaring ?
Through phonographs
What dance did people dance?
Charleston
What was the dance that was popular named after?
The city of Charleston
What event did huge crowds pay money to watch?
Sporting events
Who did 50,000 people go to watch in ballparks like Yankee stadium?
Babe Ruth
Who made the first solo non-stop flight ?
Charles A. Lindbergh
What was Charles Lindbergh’s nickname?
Lucky Lindy
A. Charles Lindbergh flew from _______ to ______?
B. How long did it take?
C. What ocean did he fly over?
A. New York to Paris
B. 33 and 1/2 Hours
C. Atlantic Ocean
The nation was finding and making new ways to do what?
Manufacture consumer products
In 1913, who tried the assembly line for making automobiles?
Henry Ford
What was Henry Ford’s ultimate goal?
Making cars so cheap that he could sell them by the millions
What was one improvement Henry Ford made to his assembly line?
He made it man high
A. Was was Henry Fords car called that was affordable?
B. When did it debut?
A. Model T
B. 1908
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. $830
B. Over 10 thousand
C. $575
By 1914, Ford could claim ___% share of the automobile market
48%
In 1920, Warren Harding was elected on a pledge of “________”?
“return to normalcy”
What did Warren Harding not want to peruse?
Reform (Progressives)
What kind of economic policies did Harding favor?
Conservative policies that aided business growth
What are three things that return to normalcy meant?
- Retreat from involvement and foreign affairs
- Rejection of progressive policies
- Pro-business economic policies
Who did Harding appoint his secretary of treasury?
Andrew Mellon
Andrew Mellon supported legislation that advanced what interests?
Business
A. Andrew Mellon did liked new______?
B. Favored low taxes on what?
A. Income tax
B. Corporations and Individuals
What spending did Andrew Mellon want to reduce?
Government Spending
Harding signed a bill that raised protective____ by 25%
Why?
tariffs
its easier for American producers to sell goods at home
Who retaliated making American goods harder to sell overseas?
Europeans
What did tariffs do that was very bad?
They weakened the world economy
Unlike progressives like T.Roosevelt and Wilson, Harding and Coolidge reduced government regulation of _____?
business
Who was the secretary of commerce?
Herbert Hoover
A. Herbert Hoover worked with business and labor in order to achieve what?
B. He got business and labor to do what?
A. Voluntary advancements
B. Work together
Harding was not very _______ gifted.
Who did he trust to make the decisions for him ?
Intelligently
The ohio gang(his old poker buddies)
Who was head of the veterans bureau?
Charles forbes
Charles Forbes practiced _______ and wasted what ?
Graft(corruption)
Taxpayers dollars
What is an example of what charles forbes did that was corrupt?
He bought 70,000 dollars worth if floor cleaner for 24 tunes the price it shouldve been
What attorney used his position to accept money from criminals ?
General Harry Daughtery
What was Harding’s worst scandal?
Teapot Dome Scandal
Who was involved in the teapot dome scandal?
Albert Fall
Why was the Teapot Dome a scandal?
Oil reserved were used for emergency only, but Harding signed a transfer
Fall forgot that the land was leased to oil men in return for bribes. These rumors led who to investigate? What happened to fall?
Senate
Sentenced to one year in prison
What did Harding die of?
A stroke or blood clot
How did people mourn Harding?
Like they mourned Lincoln
How was Coolidge. the vice president, sworn into office when Harding died?
His father used the family bible
What was Calvin Coolidge’s nickname?
Why was it funny?
“Silent Cal”
He was very quotable
Who did Coolidge follow the goals of?
What were some of these goals?
Andrew Mellon
Reduce national debt, Trim federal budget, Lowering taxes
Who struggled to keep their land and why?
Farmers
Because prices dropped
Who demanded higher wages and better working conditions?
Labor Unions
Why did the country experience division?
Immigration
The rural population was mostly _____
Protestants
The growing division between cities and rural population happened over the ________trial, the rise of the ______, the _____trial, and ______
scopes
KKK
Sacco-Vanzetti
Prohibition
Cities were mostly filled with what people?
Jewish and catholic
People living in rural population were mostly what people?
Protestant
In 1921 and 1922, who gathered in D.C. and for what?
Diplomats
Washington naval disarmament
What was the conference in D.C. for?
What did it result in?
Wanted the US, Great Britain, and Japan to have a non-aggression pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact (Treaty to outlaw war)
The US wanted _____ and ____ to repay war debts? For this to happen who had to make reparation payments imposed by the treaty of_____?
Britain and France
Versailles
Germany
What was the plan that arranged US loans to Germany?
What was the problem with this and what resulted?
Dawes Plan
The whole thing was financed by the us
Ended int he stock market crash
What created new problems such as starvation, death, revolution?
This made people _______
WW1
Dissatisfied
In 1920 Census, more Americans were now living in ______ than in _____
Cities
Countries
What did city people believe in?
Modernism
What is modernism?
Science over religion
What did country people believe in ?
Fundamentalism
What is fundamentalism?
Every word of the Bible is the literal truth
Where did the values of fundamentalism and modernism clash?
The scopes trial of 1925
What state made a law prohibiting teachers to teach Darwin’s theory of evolution?
Tennessee
What was prohibited from being taught in Tennessee ?
Darwin’s theory of evolution
Who volunteered to break the law and was arrested when he did?
John scopes
Who was John scopes?
Biology teacher from Dayton Tennessee
What did journalists call the scopes trial?
“The monkey trial”
What happened to scopes at the end of the scopes trials?
He was found guilty and fined $100
During this time did people support or try to restrict the number of immigrants coming into the US?
Restrict
National quotas (set number) for immigrants was introduced called the ______
Emergency immigration act
What said only 150,000 immigrants were allowed to enter the US?
National Origins act
By 1920’s, over half of white men and 1/3 of white woman working in manufacturing industries were _____
immigrants
The KKK was originally a product of what?
Civil war
When they came back in 1915 what did they do?
Terrorized all foreigners;
Blacks, Jews Roman, Catholics.
How many people were in the KKK?
4.5 million
Most famous criminal case that involved two people being killed. Two innocent people were accused, found guilty, and executed.
Sacco and Vanzetti
What was an unlawful hanging of someone by a mob?
Lynchings
Who’s home was damaged by a bomb resulting in a postman being killed?
Mitchell Palmer
Mitchell believed the riots were the work of the Bolsheviks and Anarchists. He ordered mass _____
arrests
Why did drys support prohibition?
Thought it would lower crime rates and bring family together
Why did prohibition fail?
It was not enforced and it was bad for the economy
What was actually never illegal during Prohibition?
Why did 1,000 Americans die per year?
What happened to crime rates?
to drink
drinking tainted liquor
increased
Who promised to end prohibition?
Roosevelt
What means discouraging the use of alcohol?
Temperance
What state could woman vote?
New Jersey
What amendment allowed woman to vote?
19th
Who were silent sentinels?
Protesters outside the white house
after what was the 19th amendment ratified?
WW1
