1920s People Flashcards
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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- attorney general who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic
- helped to increase the Red Scare
- nicknamed the “Fighting Quaker” until a bomb destroyed his home → had a nervous breakdown and became known as the “Quaking Fighter.”
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Nicola Sacco
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- a shoe factory worker who was convicted of the murder of a MA paymaster + his gaurd in 1921
- the jury + judge were prejudiced in some degree against the defednatns because they were Italians, atheists, anarchists, and draft dodgers
- showed the anti-redism, anti-foreignism, and judicial lynching
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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- a fish peddler / Italian immigrant charged with murdering a guard + robbing a shoe factory in Braintree, MA
- trial lasted from 1920 - 1927
- they were convicted on circumstantial evidence
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Horace Kallen
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- an intellectual who championed alternative conceptions of the immigrant role in American society
- defended newcomer’s right to practice their ancestral customs, vision - the US should provide a protective canopy for ethnic and racial groups to preserve their cultural uniquness
- stressed the preservation of identity; believed in pluralism
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Randolph Bourne
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- an intellectual who championed alternative conceptions of the immigrant role in American society
- advocated greater cross-fertilization among immigrants
- believed cosmopolitan interchange was destined to make America “not a nationality but a trans-nationality, a weaving back and forth with the other lands of many threads of all sizes and colors.”
- US should serve as the vangaurd of a more international and multi-cultural age
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Al Capone
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- aka “Scarface” → grasping and murderous booze distributor
- in 1925; began six years of gang warfare that netted him w/ millions of blood spottered dollars, drove armor platted ear with bullet proof windows, branded “public enemy number one”
- served in prison for 11 years for tax evasion, released as a syphilitic wreck
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Frederick W. Taylor
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- prominent inventor, engineer, and tennis player who sought to eliminate wasted motion
- “Father of Scientific Management”
- author of the Principles of Scientific Management from 1911 → preached the gospel of efficient management of production time and costs, the proper routing and scheduling of work, standardization of tools + equipment
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Henry Ford
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- American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents
- pioneer in the manufacturing of affordable automobiles with his Model T (assembly lines)
- payed workers $5 an hour → they were happy
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Charles A Lindbergh
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- mail service pilot who became a celebrity when he made the first flight across the Atlantic Ocena in 1927
- a symbol of the vanishing individualistic hero of the frontier who was honest, modest, and self-reliant
- he later became a leading isolationsit
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Sigmund Freud
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- Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis
- said that human behavior is irrational; behavior is the outcome of conflict between the id (irrational unconscious driven by sexual, aggressive, + pleasure-seeking desires) and ego (rationalizing conscious, what one can do) and superego (ingrained moral values, what one should do)
