1920s Flashcards

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Debunkers

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Writers of the lost generation

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Farewell to arms

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Work of the disenchanted, lost generation that was dissapointed in the war and culture

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The man nobody knows

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Marking fucking . Jesus.

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Harry Emerson fosdick

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Wrote abundant religion

Proponent of liberal Protestantism

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Liberal Protestantism

Modernist religion

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Forces on developing self instead of persistent prayer

Religion taking second seat

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Billy Sunday

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Religious revivalist through the rradio

Pro proabition

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Fundamentalists

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Rural areas. Strict and literal interpretation of bible

Blamed monernests for decline in morals

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Harlem poets

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Langston Hughes, Claude McKay

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Jazz

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Preformed for intergraded sometimes
audiences

Louis Armstrong

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Edward hopper

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Painter explored the loneliness of urban life

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Blacks in 20s

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Great migration brought them north. Discrimination in housing and jobs, developed Harlem in NYC

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Compulsory school laws

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Doubles high school graduation

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Farm problems

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Fucked over. Were ok during war with artificial pricing,
They borrowed during war and now in debt
High production from tech increased debt with surplus and falling prices

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Government policy in peroid

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Pro big business

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Fordney-mccumber tariff act

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Hardings tariff raise

Paired with reduction of income tax

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Eugene debs

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Socialist throwback. Procured a decent turnout in election 1920

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Teapot dome scandal

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Hardings corruption on par with ulysses grant.

Fall and Daugherty accept bribe from oil company

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Coolidge policy

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Hands off passive

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Republican congress

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Business booming farmers/ unions struggle

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Kkk

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Fueled by birth of a nation film
Against blacks and foreigners and pretty much any minority

Support soon Crucial for local elections

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Kellogg-Briand pact

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Treaty between powers anti war
But provided no means of enforcement
“Fiction of isolationism”

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Five power treaty

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Limiting navel size but not Japanese