1920s

Question 1

What is demobilization

Answer 1

The standing down of a nations armed forces from a combat-ready status

Question 2

What did WW1 lay the ground work for

Answer 2

Economic expansion

Question 3

What did tariffs do

Answer 3

Created an economic boom in the us

Question 4

What can from the economic boom

Answer 4

Cars, refrigerators, microwave, radios

Question 5

What was a reason consumerism was pushed

Answer 5

Higher wages and credit purchasing

Question 6

With prices being low…

Answer 6

Standard of living rose

Question 7

Food was..

Answer 7

Plentiful and cheap

Question 8

People owned house…

Answer 8

Through mortgages

Question 9

Who was president

Answer 9

Warren G. Harding

Question 10

1920s president=

Answer 10

Urged a return to normalcy

Question 11

Who took over after Hardings death

Answer 11

Calvin Coolidge

Question 12

Businesses can run with no government interference

Answer 12

Laissez-faire

Question 13

Why did the Russians drop out of the war

Answer 13

A revolution

Question 14

Who took control of Russia

Answer 14

Vladimir Lenin

Question 15

What was Lenin’s group

Answer 15

The Bolsheviks

Question 16

Who took over after Lenin

Answer 16

Joseph Stalin

Question 17

What was the red scare

Answer 17

The fear that communism would spread to America

Question 18

What did the media do with the news of communism

Answer 18

They sensationalized the story

Question 19

What was a big event that had to do with the red scare

Answer 19

The Palmer raids

Question 20

What were the Palmer raids

Answer 20

Bombs went off in several cities

Question 21

What did Mitchell Palmer do

Answer 21

Tried to ideantify and root out the groups that posed a clear and present danger

Question 22

What are the people called who want to overthrow the government

Answer 22

Subversives

Question 23

Who was targeted?

Answer 23

Communist socialist anarchist

Question 24

What happened on January 2, 1920

Answer 24

Federal agents in 33 cities arrested thousands of radicals WITH NO EVIDENCE. they were charged with anarchy

Question 25

What happened on may 1, 1920 ( an annual socialist holiday)

Answer 25

Nothing lmao

Question 26

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 26

Two Italian immigrants arrested for murder (with like no evidence)

Question 27

Nativism

Answer 27

A movement favoring native born Americans over immigrants

Question 28

Patriotism

Answer 28

Many Americans believe that foreigners could never be fully loyal to the Us

Question 29

Religion

Answer 29

Nativist who were Protestants did not trust Catholics, orthodox Christians, or Jews

Question 30

Urban conditions

Answer 30

Americans blamed problems on immigrants

Question 31

Red scare

Answer 31

Immigrants were believed to carry communist ideas with them

Question 32

Women’s rights

Answer 32

19th amendment

Question 33

Women’s suffrage is…

Answer 33

Wanting the right to vote

Question 34

What was a well known conference for women’s rights

Answer 34

Seneca falls convention in new youk

Question 35

Why weren’t women wanted to vote

Answer 35

It would make them too masculine, politics would dristract them, they were easily manipulated

Question 36

Who was Susan B. Anthony

Answer 36

Led a group to Rochester New York so women could vote. She got arrested.

Question 37

Susan B. Anthony and other formed what…

Answer 37

National Americans Women Suffrage (NAWSA)

Question 38

Who took over the NAWSA committee that worked on congressional passage of the federal suffrage amendment

Answer 38

Alice Paul/ Lucy burns

Question 39

What did they change it too?

Answer 39

Congressional union (cu)

Question 40

What happened august 1920

Answer 40

The 19tg amendment was passed

Question 41

Who revitalized the Ku klux klan

Answer 41

William j. Simmons

Question 42

How many member were in the kkk from 1922-1924

Answer 42

100,000-4 mil

Question 43

What was the new focus of the kkk

Answer 43

Vowed to defend their own white-Protestant culture against any group

Question 44

What were most crimes against in early 1920

Answer 44

African Americans, Catholics, Jews, immigrants

Question 45

Where was the biggest klan

Answer 45

Indiana

Question 46

Quota-

Answer 46

Numerical limit imposed on immigrants representing certain ethnic groups or nations

Question 47

National origins acts-

Answer 47

Reduced the amount of immigrants allowed in the previous quota

Question 48

What was the movement that a lot of African Americans left the south to the north

Answer 48

The great migration

Question 49

Why did they want to leave

Answer 49

Racism, employment, boll weevil, Jim Crow laws, war industries, immigration act, great Mississippi flood

Question 50

Legal racial segregation in the south

Answer 50

Jim Crow laws

Question 51

What legalized the Jim Crow laws

Answer 51

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 52

War industries

Answer 52

Created job openings for blacks

Question 53

Immigration act of 1924

Answer 53

Put a halt to the flow of European immigrants to the emerging industrial centers of the northeast and Midwest

Question 54

The great Mississippi flood

Answer 54

1927, displaced a lot of farmers and darn workers

Question 55

Harlem renaissance

Answer 55

Harlem African American population grew from 50,000 in 1914 to 200000 in 1930

Question 56

Another word for Harlem renaissance

Answer 56

Literary awakening

Question 57

Who was James Weldon Johnson

Answer 57

He emerged as a leading writer of the Harlem group

Question 58

What is NAACP

Answer 58

National association for the advancement of colored people

Question 59

Naacp was formed by who

Answer 59

1909 by Moore field stores, Mary white ovington, and W.E.B. du bois

Question 60

Jazz age is also referred to what

Answer 60

The swing era