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Chapter 19 and 20: Rise of the 20's Flashcards

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100% americanism

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celebrated all things American while attacking all ideas and people it viewed as foreign or anti-American

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2
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germans

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reds; the huns

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3
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red scare

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widespread fear of communism and radicals

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4
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A Mitchell Palmer

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attorney general who had a series of raids

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5
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fundamentalism

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believes the Bible is literally true

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Palmer raids

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series of raids arresting immigrants and communists

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Seattle, Washington

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ship yards; nation’s first general strike

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Boston

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police force went on strike for low wages and poor working conditions

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Calvin Coolidge

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governor of Boston; calls in militia; didn’t like to talk

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national origins act of 1924

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set quotas for each country at 2% of the number of people from that country currently living in the US

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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anarchists; didn’t like the government; Italian immigrants; arrested for armed robbery and murder

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Henry Ford

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assembly line

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wellfare capitalism

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system where companies provide benefits to employees to promote worker satisfaction and loyalty

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car effects

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demands for car materials soared; steel, rubber, and glass; repair shops and filling stations; motels and restaurants

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15
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installment buying

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paying for an item over time in small payments

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16
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credit

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borrowing money

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farmers

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competing from Europe; not doing good; tariff making foreign farm products more expensive

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natural disasters

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boll weevil; Mississippi River flood; Big Blow, first hurricane

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Warren G Harding

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return to “normalcy”; life pre- WW1; believed less government in business and more business in government; government would be more accountable to the tax payers; help wealthy

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20
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fordney- mccumber tariff

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raised the cost of foreign farm products and American farm products

21
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Albert Fall

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secretary of the interior; teapot dome scandal

22
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teapot dome scandal

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let oilmen drill on federally reserved navy land form bribes; Fall; Teapot, Wyoming

23
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Washington naval conference

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countries cut back the size of navies; scrap existing ships and ones under construction

24
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Charles Evans Hughes

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secretary of state; took credit for the Washington naval conference

25
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Billy Mitchell

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argued US should invest more in air power

26
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scuttle

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sink; get rid of

27
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Frank Kellog

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Secretary of State; proposed agreement of pact

28
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Kellog- Briand pact

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all countries who signed it renounced war as a solution for international controversies; more than 60 nations signed

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flappers

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young girls going against social normal; cut hair and short dresses; mostly in cities; drinking and dancing

30
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Billy Sunday

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former ballplayer and ordinated minister; fundamentalist

31
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Aimee Semple McPherson

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fundamentalist preacher; healing sick through prayer

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Scopes trial

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John Scopes; taught evolution and arrested; found guilty; eventually overturned

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Clarence Darrow

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represented John Scopes

34
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William Jennings Bryan

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prosecutor; “scholar”

35
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bootleggers

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smuggled alcohol

36
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speakasies

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illegal bars with passwords

37
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Great Migration

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blacks in the south moved upward; Chicago, New York, Detroit

38
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Harlem Renaissance

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Harlem, New York; jazz music; rebirth in Harlem

39
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Marcus Garvey

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Jamaican immigrant; back to Africa; mail fraud; went back to Africa after being in jail; UNIA

40
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universal negro improvement association

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promoted self reliance for blacks without white involvement

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mail fraud

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sending someone money in the mail for a service and never receiving the service

42
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Marconi

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late 1800s; invented the radio

43
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KDKA

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first radio station in 1920

44
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the jazz singer

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first talkie movie

45
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steamboat willie

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Mickey Mouse

46
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Charles Lindburg

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first to fly a plane solo and nonstop transatlantic

47
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Lindburg baby

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federal law to kidnap a baby; Charles son

48
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Amelia Erheart

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first woman to fly a plane across the Atlantic

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