Chapter 13 Flashcards
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What percentage of Americans ,I’ve in communities of populations of 2500- 1 million?
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51.2%
2
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How many people left farms and towns per year?
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2 million
3
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What cities w among the most populated?
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New York City. Chicago, and Philiadelphia
4
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The city that was an industrial powerhouse, home to whites, Polish, Irish, Russians, Italians, swedes, Arabs, French, and Chinese
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Chicago
5
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What did city dwellers tolerate, while town people did not?
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Drinking,gambling, casual drinking
6
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When manufacture, sale and translation of alcohol became illegal
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Prohibition
7
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Amendment made when prohibition cam about
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18th amendment
8
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What did reformers think of liquor
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- prime cause of corruption
- led to crime, wife and child abuse, accidents on job, and other social problems
9
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Where did people support prohibition?
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Rural south and western areas
10
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What women group thought drinking was a sin, and helped to make prohibition happen?
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union
11
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What law wasn’t funded anymore, due to a low budget?
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Prohibition
12
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Established a prohibition bureau in the treasury department
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Volstead act
13
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How was prohibition enforced?
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18,700 miles of patrollers
14
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A underground hidden saloon and nightclub
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Speakeasies
15
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How did you get into a speakeasy?
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A card/ password
16
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A person who smuggled alcohol from Canada, Cuba, and the West Indies
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Bootleggers
17
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How did bootleggers get the alcohol?
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In other countries since it was used for medicinal purposes
18
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What did prohibition/ bootleggers lead to?
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Organized crime
19
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A very prosperous bootlegger
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Al Capone
20
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How did al Capone get rid of his competition?
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He killed them
21
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What did non prohibition people believe?
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They believed that prohibition was making the country worse, than without it
22
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What was the 18th amendment reappeared with?
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The 21st amendment
23
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The Protestant movement grounded in a literal, or non symbolic interpretation of the bible; Were skeptical of some scientific discoveries and theories; they argued that all important knowledge could be found in the bible
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Fundamentalists
24
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What did fundamentalists reject?
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The theory of evolution
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A theory stating that plant and animals species had developed and changed over a long period of time
Evolution by Charles Darwin
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Baseball player who became a preacher and stages emotional meetings in the south
Billy Sunday
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Women who used Hollywood showmanship to preach the word to homesick migrants and devoted followers of her radio broadcasts
Aimee Semple McPherson
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When did fundamentalists get a lot of followers?
When they wanted the teaching of evolution in schools prohibited
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What state made it a law that made evolution a crime
Tennessee
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The union that would defend any teacher to challenge the law of not teaching evolution in schools
American civil liberties union
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Biology teacher in Dayton they accosted the challenge of the evolution law
John Scope
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What happened to scopes?
He was arrested
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The most famous lawyer of the day
Clarence Darrow
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Evangelist who preached against the evils of drinking
Billy Sunday
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Three-time Democratic candidate for president and devout fundamentalist served as a special prosecutor for John Scopes
William Jennings Bryan
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What was the trial for John Scopes called?
Scopes trial
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A ferry over evolution in the role of science and religion in public schools and an American society
Scopes trials
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When did the trial begin?
July 10, 1925
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What was the scopes trial results
He was found guilty
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How did women become in the 20s
Independent and rebellious
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And emancipated woman who embrace new fashions and urban attitudes
Flapper
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What were some of the types of clothing that gallopers wore
-tight clothes, just above the knees, pantyhose, heels
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What did women want to be equal with
Men
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Set of principles granting more sexual freedom to men than women
Double standard
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When men give them for more what happened to women with jobs
They lost them do two men coming home and having to take over
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Since women were working during the men at war, what jobs did women begin to do
Working with automobiles, planes, taxis
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What changes happening with the family
Birthrate went down because of birth control
There was a big equality in marriage
Children went to school
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Who won the boxing Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney
Gene Tunney
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How many Americans went to high school in 1914
1 million
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How many highschooler's went to school in 1926
4 million
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What was a struggle of being a teacher around the 1920s
It was a lot of immigrants so they didn't speak English
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What type of news increase and what kind and decrease during these
Increase- newspapers
| Decrease- local news
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What was the most powerful communication
Radio
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What did the people in the 1920s listen to on the radio
The president or even the World Series
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How much money was spent on entertainment in the 1920s
4.5 million dollars
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Beloved hero, small-town pilot
Charles Lindbergh
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Who went after the prize for first nonstop solo transatlantic flight
Charles Lindbergh
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Same as giving to him, a music composer, because he merged traditional songs with jazz
George Gershwin
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Person who caught Lonely American life in his paintings
Edward Hopper
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Made colorful canvases
Georgia O'Keeffe
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What entertainment and made the era Rich
Writing
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First nobel peace winner in literature
Sinclair Lewis
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Name the 1920s the Jazz age and his books revealed gaiety and freedom leading Imperialed life
Scott Fitzgerald
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What was the writers group name that met at the Algonquin Hotel
Lost Generation
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Who was the best lady at the roundtable
Dorthy Parker
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Wrote poems about youth and life independence
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Best-known expatriate author
Ernest Hemingway
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What happened to the cost of schools
Taxes doubled
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What magazines were founded in the 1920s
Readers Digest and time
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New York Yankees slugger
Babe Ruth
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A celebrated picture and team manager that founded the negro National League
Andrew foster
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Who is inspired by Lindbergh's accomplishments
Amelia Earhart
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What did the African-Americans migration express from themselves
Express the change in attitude
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Movement of hundreds of thousands of African-Americans in the homes in the South and move north to the cities in search of jobs
Great migration
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What happen in northern cities that had a big flow of African-American migrators
Became a lot of tension
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Urged African Americans to protest racial violence
NAACP
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Who led a parade of 10,000 African-American people to protest violence
EB du bois
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Lawyer and NAACP executive secretary
James Weldon Johnson
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Immigrant from Jamaica believe should build a separate society
Marcus Garvey
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What group did Garvey found
The universal Negro improvement Association
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What Happened to Garvey
He was put in jail for mail fraud
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Where did a lot of African-Americans moved
Upperwest side of New York Manhattan Island
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What did Harlem suffer
Overcrowding unemployment and property
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A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture
Harlem Renaissance
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A novelist poet and you make an immigrant and was a major figure in his military versus urged African Americans to resist prejudice and discrimination
Claude McKay
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The movements best non-public and his problems describes a difficult lives of working-class African-Americans
Langston Hughes
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Her work celebrated what you called the comments person's art for the simple folk Waze and values of people who had survived slavery through the ingenuity and strength
Zora Neale
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Son of a one time slave became a major dramatic actor
Paul Robison
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A young trumpet player John Oliver's group which became known as the creole jazz band
Louis Armstrong
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Where did Jazz spread to
Kansas City, Memphis, and New York City
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An Exotic night club in Harlem
Cotton club
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jazz pianist and composer that lady is 10 piece orchestra at the cotton club
Duke Ellington
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Who wrote The great Gatsby
Scott Fitzgerald
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The want to get away from all the bad things happening during the Great Depression
Escapism
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Group devoted to 100% Americanism and also believed in keeping blacks in their place, destroy saloons, opposing unions and driving Roman Catholics Jews and foreign-born people out of the country
KKK
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After the war when companies had to transistor ion from making war products, to American needed goods
Guns to butter
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Massachusetts governor who called out the national guard to break the Boston police strike
Calvin Coolidge
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Man who became president in 1921
Harding
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Secretary of State that urgent that no more warships be built for 10 years
Charles Evans Hughes
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Raise taxes on some US imports to 60%
Forget- McCumber Tarrif
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The presidents poker playing cronies it would soon cause a great deal of embarrassment
Ohio gang
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The place at which the government has set aside oil rich public lands
Teapot Dome Wyoming
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secretary of the interior that man and she is a oil reserves transferred from the Navy to the interior department and then secretly Lisa landed to private oil companies
Albert Fall
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Scandal in which the secretary of Interior manage to get the oil reserves transferred from the Navy to the interior department and then secretly least Atlanta to private oil companies
Teapot Dome scandal
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He was elected president right after Harding
Calvin Coolidge
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The maker of the assembly line
Henry Ford
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The first car that was made through assembly line
Model T
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The car that was created after the model T
Model A
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Route that provided a route for people trucking west from Chicago to California
Route 66
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When Cities spread in all directions
Urban sprawl
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Enable people to buy goods over an extended period without having to put down much money at the time of purchase
Installman plan
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when people spent the moe y that they did not have
Superficial prosperity
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Condensation in money, material, labor
Reparation
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The levels of wealth comfort material goods and necessities available to a certain class
Standard of living
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An attempt following World War I for the triple entente to compromise and collect war reparations
Dawes plan
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Between 1921 in 1922, the world's largest naval power gathered in Washington for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in east Asia
Washington Naval conference
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International agreement in which signatory states promise not to use warm to resolve disputes or conflicts
Kellog briand pact
