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1920s Flashcards

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3 post-war affairs

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  1. inflation
  2. labor
  3. Red Scare
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inflation

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  • prices go up because we go from a wartime economy to a consumer economy
  • low supply and high demand
  • since demand is higher, prices go up
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how many labor strikes were there in the 1920s

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3,000 involving 400,000 workers

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what were some big strikes

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  • Boston police station (wanted higher wages)
  • the president had to call the national guard
  • Pullman Railroad strike
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what were 2 popular strikes

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  • Boston Police Strike (wanted higher wages)
  • the president had to call the national guard
  • Pullman Railroad car strike
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3 common elements for a strike

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  1. public blame communist + anarchist
  2. started peacefully then became violent
  3. once it became violent, the government called in the national guard to stop strike and send everyone back to work
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what was the red scare

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  • fear of communism
  • heightened nativism/nationalism
  • caused change in foreign policy- isolationism
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presidents of the 1920s

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  1. Harding
  2. Coolidge
  3. Hoover
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Harding as president

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  • after Woodrow Wilson
  • “bring us back to normalty”
  • heart attack and died
  • Calvin Coolidge was vice president
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Coolidge as president

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  • “Silent Cal”
  • didn’t like people
  • didn’t talk to people at dinner parties
  • business policy- let it be
  • let Harding’s term run out
  • only showed effort during strikes to send the national guard
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Hoover as president

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  • 1928
  • “a chicken in every pot” (enough for everyone)
  • blamed for a lot
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Fear of Communism (effects)

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  1. A Mitchell Palmer- attorney general
  2. ACLU (American civil liberties union)
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A Mitchell Palmer

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  • attorney general
  • said he would get rid of communist in the US
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Palmer raids

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  • go into your home with no warrant
  • violates 4th and 1st amendments
  • you go to jail or get deported
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ACLU

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  • fight to protect violated rights
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Sacco & Vanzetti

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  • April 15, 1920
  • $15,000 paymaster and guard
  • ACLU helps to defend them
  • 1921: trial
  • 1927: sentence (executed)
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Emergency quota act 1921

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  • used the 1910 census
  • let in 3% of the population of each country
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Immigration act 1924

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  • used the 1890 census
  • let in 2% of the population of each country
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exceptions from the emergency quota act 1921 and the immigration act 1924 (where immigration was limited)

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  • mexico and canada
  • college professors and students
  • religious ministers
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4 organizations of the 1920s

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  • KKK
  • ADL
  • NAACP
  • UNIA
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KKK

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  • rose to about 5 mil
  • focus on white Americans born protestant
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ADL

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  • Anti-Defamation League
  • fights for the protection of Jews
  • anti-Semitism group
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NAACP

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  • national association for the advancement of colored people
  • civil rights movement for black people being violated
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UNIA

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  • universal negro improvement association
  • Marcus Garvey and his wife Amy
  • unite African Americans in the US
  • wanted to make Africa a black continent
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roots of prohibition

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  • women thinking alcohol is bad and led to domestic violence
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18th amendment

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  • 1819
  • cant manufacture, sell, transport, or export alcohol for drinking purposes
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effects of 18th amendment

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  • people had to think of new ways of doing things they were doing before
  • speakeasies
  • organized crime- canada
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organized crime

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  • started bootleggers (ppl who smuggle in alc)
  • Al Capone
  • St Valentines day massacre
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volstead act

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  • to 1500 people to enforce the 18th amendment around the county
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21st Amendment

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  • 1933
  • repealed 18th amendment
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state and local laws

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? alcohol

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Charles Lindbergh

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  • big headline
  • crime of the century
  • pilot
  • first solo flight across Atlantic
  • 14-20 month old son kidnapped and killed for ransom but was found dead on the road

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