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8th grade ch 22- The Roaring Twenties Flashcards

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post ww1 hardships2

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  • economic recession–>labor strikes

- fear of communists

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warren harding2

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  • next president, republican

- promised a return to normalcy

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albert b fall3

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  • harding’s friend
  • received a big bribe
  • first cabinet member ever sent to jail
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calvin coolidge5

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  • vice president turned president after harding died
  • very soft-spoken, honest
  • helped restore public’s trust in government
  • won reelection
  • helped the 20’s “roar”
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isolationism2

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  • wanting to not interfere with the issues of world affairs

- most americans wanted isolationism

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disarmament2

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  • reduction or limitation of military armaments

- us encouraged other nations of disarmament

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washington naval arms conference

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treaty limiting the navies of the US, brit, france, italy, and japan

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kellogg-briand pact2

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  • condemned military aggression and outlawed war

- ineffective because hand no punishment on a country that acted aggresively

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coolidge and nicaragua and mexico4

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  • Coolidge believed that government had a right to intervene in foreign matters that affected US business
  • sent troops to Nicaragua to protect business there
  • next year: mexico planned to take over all foreign oil lands
  • coolige managed to settle diplomatically
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communism

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economic and political system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party rules

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US and soviet union3

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  • the bolshevik revolution made the soviet union: world’s first communist state
  • US refused to grant it diplomatic recognition to weaken SU
  • still, when famine hit russia in 1921, US sent aid
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anarchists3

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  • people who oppose all organized government
  • foreign born
  • set off bombs to unite all foreigners
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red scare

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thousands of anarchists and communists/reds were hunted down and arrested or deported

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sacco and vanzetti2

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  • charged with robbing and murdering two people in massachusetts
  • prosecution focused on the fact that both defendants were foreigners
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limiting immigration reasons

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  • culture of US would be overwhelmed by immigrants

- immigrants would compete for jobs

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emergency immigration laws3

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  • 1921: limited the number of people admitted from eastern and souther europe
  • 1924/1929:prohibited immigration from asia
  • did not apply to people from americas (mexicans and canadians)
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prohibition2

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  • total ban on alcoholic drinks (eighteenth amendment)

- way to conserve grains during war

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bootleggers

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liquor smugglers

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speakeasies

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illegal taverns that served liquor

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fail of prohibition

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  • bootleggers from canada
  • large towns had speakeasies
  • more crime from gangs
  • 21 amendment: ended prohibition
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19th amendment

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allowed women to vote, join political parties, and be elected to offices

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flappers3

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  • young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thingking and acting
  • wore bright makeup and short skirts, and had bobs
  • became symbol of women in 20s
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impact of automobile4

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  • became symbol of freedom/independence, and the 20s
  • created new businesses
  • made it easier for fams to move to suburbs
  • encouraged tourism
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impact of radio2

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  • leading supplier of entertainment

- unified the country with NBC

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impact of movies4

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  • provided escape from everyday life
  • grew hollywood
  • first were silent, then led to talkie, then action
  • led rise to celebrities
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scopes trial4

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  • john scopes was a teacher who was accused of teaching the theory of evolution to his students
  • many states passed laws that banned teaching the theory because it went against the church
  • trail put modern urban americans against traditional rural americans
  • scopes was eventually convicted
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great migration4

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  • many blacks started to leave the south and move to bigger cities in the north
  • settled into the few neighborhoods that allowed black residents
  • lots of racial tension led to riots and violence
  • KKK came back for a bit
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marcus garvey3

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  • jamaican immigrant who spoke for universal negro improvement association
  • promoted black pride and unity
  • encouraged people to move back to africa
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fads of the 20s4

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  • dancing:charleston, lindy hop etc
  • flagpole setting: who could sit the longest on top of a flagpole
  • dance marathon
  • mah-johngg: chinese game
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heroes of the 20s2

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  • sports heroes: babe ruth, red grange, jack dempsey etc

- charles lindbergh: lucky lindy, first to fly nonstop across the atlantic

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jazz5

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  • combined rhythms from west africa and the caribbean, work chants and spirituals from the rural south, and harmonies from europe into an original new style of music
  • lots of black people
  • spread with the help of radio
  • 20s was called jazz age
  • not liked by older people
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f scott fitzgerald3

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  • wrote great gatsby
  • critic of what he saw as the emptiness of rich people’s lives
  • seemed fascinated and disgusted by people
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ernest hemingway2

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  • noted for his short direct sentences using everyday language
  • wrote the sun also rises
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sinclair lewis

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reacted against what he saw as the hypocrisies of middle-class culture

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harlem renaissance

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lots of people in harlem new york reacted against the prejudice they faced through music, writing, and poetry

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lanston hughes

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was popular for his beautiful poems that had expressions of racial pride

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james weldon johnson

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combined poetry and politics by writing editorials in the black-owned newspaper

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installment buying2

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  • buying on credit

- offered by businesses to encourage spending

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changes in the industry3

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  • chain stores and mail order catalogs made it easier for people to buying goods
  • more appliances were designed to appeal to the american homemaker
  • high tariffs on imports kept out goods that might compete with domestic products
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bull market

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period of rising stock prices

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buying on margin

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borrowing money in order to buy stocks

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signs of trouble2

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  • farmers: surplus of crops that are unable to sell, high debt
  • workers: unemployment was high, didnt need skilled workers
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election of 1928

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  • republican–herbert hoover: supported by rural residents and protestants, pledged to continue prosperity
  • democrat–alfred e smith: supported by immigrants, catholics, and urban residents
  • hoover won
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main events8

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  • harding/coolidge(recession, labor strikes, scandals)
  • red scare–>immigration
  • prohibition
  • new good culture (flappers, technology, scopes trial, great migration)
  • jazz, literature, poetry
  • industry growth, stock market boom
  • signs of trouble (farmers, workers)
  • election of 1928

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