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Chapter 19 and 20 Reading Flashcards

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end of war

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end of wartime; economic opportunities for women and African Americans; postwar adjustments

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farmers

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farming agricultural prices; difficult to pay debts; suffered under growing debt while crop prices were falling

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inflation

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rising prices

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workers

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struck for higher wages and shorter workdays

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violence of some strikes attributed to the presence of

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radicals among the strike leaders

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emergence of the Soviet Union

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communist nation; compounded fear of radicals and communists

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communist ideology

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international workers revolution

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communist revolts in Europe

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central and eastern; made it seem like the worldwide revolution was starting

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red scare

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widespread fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolution

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A Mitchell Palmer

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attorney general; mounted a series of raids; Palmer Raids

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palmer raids

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series of raids where thousands were arrested; some radicals and immigrants from southern or Eastern Europe; seemed to attack the liberties Americans held most dear

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Warren G Harding

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campaigned for president calling for a return of normalcy; won in a landslide; preferred a laissez faire approach to business; worked with Andrew Mellon to reduce regulations on businesses and to raise protective tariff rates making it easier for US producers too sell goods at home; admitted he liked playing golf more than governing and trusted his friends with important government positions; favored less restriction on businesses

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US 1920

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richest, most industrialized country in the world; largest creditor nation in the world

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creditor nation

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other countries owed you more than you owed them

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result of WW1; Americas economy and political standing

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in the world changed

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mass production

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enabled Americans to produce more goods in less time; economy boomed

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automobile industry

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played major role in boom

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Henry Ford

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introduced new methods and ideas that changed the way manufactured goods were made; hired scientific management experts to improve his assembly line; raised wages cut workdays; gave workers Saturday and Sundays off

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model t

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after assembly line made faster it became affordable for most Americans; automobile ownership boomed

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automobile production stimulated

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other industries; steel, gas, asphalt, wood, gasoline, insurance, and road construction

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growth of industries led to

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new, better paying jobs; spur national prosperity; flood of new, affordable goods became available to the public creating a consumer revolution

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installment buying

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enabled customers to buy goods by making a small downpayment on a product and paying the rest in monthly installments

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Americans buying

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stock on credit

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stock prices soared in bull markets

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people began buying on margin paying as little as 10% of the stock price upfront to a broker

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price of the stock rose

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buyer could pay off the broker and still make profit

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price of the stock fell

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buyer still owed the broker the full price of the stock

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economic boom felt more

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in cities where jobs were plentiful

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cities grew

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people moved out to the suburbs and drove cars into the city for work

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America’s wealth

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unevenly distributed

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europeans raised tariffs

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making US goods more expensive there

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Herbert Hoover

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secretary of commerce; asked business leaders to voluntarily make advancements

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Andrew Mellon

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secretary of treasury; banker; worked with Harding to reduce regulations on businesses and raise protective tariff

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Charles Forbes

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waste millions of dollars while running the Veteran’s Bureau

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Albert Fall

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secretary of the interior; created the biggest scandal of Harding’s administration

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teapot dome scandal

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Fall took bribes to transfer control of oil reserves from the US navy to provide oilmen; later forced to return the oil and sentenced to a year in jail

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Calvin Coolidge

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new president; quiet and honest; put his administration in the hands of men who held to the simple virtues of an older generation; mistrusted the use of legislation to achieve social change; favored big businesses; reduced the national debt and lowered taxes to give incentives to businesses ; said and did nothing about the country’s main problems

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country’s problems

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low prices for farm crops, racial discrimination, and low wages

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foreign policy pushed european governments

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Coolidge; to repay war debts to the US

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Dawes plan

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arranged to help Germany, France, and Great Britain repay war debts

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kellogg Briand pact

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62 nations signed; treaty that outlawed war

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urban Americans

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enjoyed a rising standard of living and embraced a modern view of the world

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city dwellers

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tended to value education and to be activates for science and social change

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rural Americans

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formal education considered less important than keeping the farm going; tended to be conservative about political and social issues preferring to keep things the way they were

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scopes trial

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Tennessee passed a law making it illegal to teach the theory of evolution in the state’s public school; John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution; guilty and fined $100

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Clarence Darrow

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most celebrated defense attorney in the country; defended John Scopes for teaching evolution

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wave of immigration inspired

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nativist politicians to pass laws forming immigrants to pass a literacy test and create a quota system

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quota system

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sets limits on the number of new immigrants allowed into the US

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KKK

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reorganized in Georgia; violent group; Grand Dragon and Imperial Wizard; promoted hatred of African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants

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prohibition

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states ratified the 19th amendment; passed volstead act to enforce the amendment; police turned blind eye to illegal drinking establishments; led to growth of organized crime

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shorter workweeks for city dwellers

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had free time and money to spend on entertainment

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movies

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one of the most popular forms of entertainment

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the jazz singer

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became the first movie to include sound matching the action on the screen; talkies

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entertainment at home

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phonographs and radios

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Babe Ruth

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the home run king

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Charles Lindenburg

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first to fly solo and non stop around the Atlantic Ocean

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flappers

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women who wore short skirts and bobbed hair

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Sigmund Frued

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theory that human behavior is driven by unconscious desires rather than by rational thought

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writers

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F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway; wrote about the meaning of life and war; examined subconscious desires and the dark side of the American dream

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African Americans in north

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found well paying jobs; middle class of African American professionals; growing political voice in New York, Chicago, and Detroit

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Harlem in NYC

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became haven for African Americans from the south and black immigrants from the Caribbean

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Marcus Garvey

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immigrant; Jamaican who traveled widely; after seeing black treated poorly started a back to Africa movement urging black unity and separation of the races

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F Scott Fitzgerald

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called the 1920s a jazz age

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African Americans

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gave the age its jazz

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jazz

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emerged in the south as a combination of African American and European musical styles

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Louis Armstrong

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trumpet player; took jazz to the world

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Bessie Smith

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singer; nicknamed the empress of the blues; highest paid African American entertainer of the 1920s

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Harlem renaissance

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outpouring of art and literature that explored the African American experience

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Claude McKay

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writer; novels and poems were militant calls for action

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Langston Hughes

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celebrated African American culture

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Zora Neale Hurston

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wrote about women’s desire for independence

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Great Depression

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ended the Harlem renaissance

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laissez faire

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type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism

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