Chapter 21 Flashcards

Question

the government set aside three large oil reserves-

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two in California at Elk Hills and Buena Vista and one in Wyoming at Teapot Dome

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William Harding

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Fall secretly leased the reserves to oil companies owned by his friends Harry F. Sinclair and Edward Doheny for very low rates. The two pumped oil from the reserves, paying a royalty, in oil, to the Navy. The Navy got the oil it needed in Hawaii. Sinclair and Doheny made a considerable profit.

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Sincalir and Doheney was stealing money,

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The name given to a major scandal of the Harding presidency in which U.S. Navy oil reserves, including those at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, were used to enrich the secretary of the interior and his friend

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declared both leases “illegal and fraudulent,”

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Harding’s appointee as head of the Veterans’ Bureau, Charles R. Forbes, managed to lose some $200 million in 2 years, buying new goods at a high price from friends and selling goods on hand as cheap surplus.

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active member of both the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The organizations provided a network for her to meet other women, and those connections would determine the rest of her career. Catt served two terms as president of the NAWSA from 1900 to 1904 and again during the crucial years from 1915 to 1920.

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the woman’s suffrage amendment, to the House of Representatives on January 10, 1918. The amendment the House 274 to 136.

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NAWSA helped defeat four antisuffrage senators in November 1918, and the amendment was approved and sent on to the states in June 1919. A little more than a year later, the Tennessee legislature gave the amendment the required 36 state. On August 26, 1920, the secretary of state announced that the amendment had been ratifed

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Dressed differnet, explored sexuality, rebelled against standards on women, drank, smoked, and determined to have equal rights wih men

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providing federal funds for prenatal and infant care

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protecting the citizenship rights of American women who married non citizens

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organized a birth control conference for physicians and researchers in New York City founded the American Birth Control League In 1923, she opened a physician-run birth control clinic since only physicians were allowed to dispense birth control infor-mation in the 1920s She organized several international conferences on birth control in the 1920s She tested federal laws against the importation of foreign-made contraceptives and won

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Planned Parenthood with Sanger as honorary chair

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radio and motion picutres

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the election returns in the Harding-Cox presidential contest in November 1920, it ushered in a new era in news and entertainment. hundreds of stations were reporting news; playing records; covering religious services, sports events, and political campaigns; and broadcasting live concerts

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which created a plan to license radio stations and regulate the wavelengths at which they broadcast.

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Auto-related industries such as steel, paint, textile, and tire production along with highway construction

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General Motors purchased a number of streetcar companies and tore up the tracks, replacing the service with General Motors buses.

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New age heroes like Babe Ruth, increasing the populariy of baseball

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The mass movement of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North, spurred especially by new job opportunities that began during World War I and the 1920s

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As work expanded, factories in the North needed more workers. The Illinois Central Railroad, which ran straight from the heart of the cotton-growing Mississippi Delta to job-rich Chicago, enabled those who were moving. Newspapers also helped tell africans what jobs were available

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Black music reflected the emotions of those who moved North. The blues, music born out of gospel, ragtime, and jazz, began on back porches, small town bars and dance halls, and prison cells

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44,000 in 1910 to 109,000 in 1920 to 234,000 in 1930

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Cotton planters because Plantation owners opposed anything more than rudimentary education for blacks so they would have few skills to take north.

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Most Northern black men were janitors, porters, servants, or waiters while black women were cooks, laundresses, maids, or servants. Still, there was of en conf ict between these long-time urban blacks and the newcomers from the South who started arriving in large numbers af er 1917

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A new African-American cultural awareness that flourished in literature, art, and music in the 1920

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established the Universal Negro Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League (UNIA) in Jamaica in August 1914.

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rejecting integration with white America and focusing on self-help, self-determination, and African nationalism

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Gaveys shipping Line, to carry passengers and freight between the United States, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa. It was also Garvey’s downfall. Selling stock at $5 per share, Garvey eventually collected over $750,000, perhaps much more. But whether through mismanagement or corruption, or both, the line floundered

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Gaveys shipping Line, to carry passengers and freight between the United States, the islands of the Caribbean, and Africa. It was also Garvey’s downfall. Selling stock at $5 per share, Garvey eventually collected over $750,000, perhaps much more. But whether through mismanagement or corruption, or both, the line floundered

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lacks as well as whites. In December 1920, W.E.B. Du Bois published an indictment of the Black Star Line

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arrested for fraud, convicted, and sentenced to 5 years in federal prison in 1923 and began serving his term in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in February 1925.

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William Joseph Simmons in 1915

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“One flag, one school, one Bible.” It advocated for strict enforcement of Prohibition and—ironically, some thought— a cabinet-level Department of Education that would ensure that all American children were taught Klan-defined patriotism, or “100% Americanism.

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Catholic Knights of Columbus and anti-Klan American Unity League

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A movement that claimed scientific basis to apply Darwinian theory to the “natural selection” of the “fittest” human beings to reproduce and improve the human race

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Francis Galton

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literscy tests for immigrants

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he referred to the 1890 quota which had less immigrants

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Japan China Italy Ruminia

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arrested on May 5, 1920, for robbery and the murder of a paymaster and guard of a shoe factory in South Braintree, Massachusetts. After a long series of appeals, reviews, and massive public protests, during which Sacco and Vanzetti maintained their innocence, their conviction was upheld and they were executed at Charlestown Prison on August 23, 1927

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Opponents of immigration and of political radi-calism generally assumed that they were guilty simply because they were immigrants and self-confessed anarchists. For others, winning freedom for Sacco and Vanzetti could be, depending on one’s view, a blow struck for the cause of anarchism, or for the rights of immigrants, or simply the right to a fair trial.

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Farmers were producing lots during WW1 because there was a need for many supplies. When WW1 ended, the need went drastically down and a depression hit, farmers were stuck with too much food and not enough money. Many wheat and grain farmers faced this the hardest

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Too much rain, whch flooded into the Mississippi TIver and ruined crops

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a new militant form of Protestantism and a much more pessimistic view of modern society. Protestants have traditionally been optimistic about the future. Fundamentalists were pessimistic about a sinful world. They saw the United States of the 1920s, with its open f outing of Prohibition laws, the questionable moral standards of the flappers, the growth of Catholic and Jewish immigrant communities, and the teaching of evolution in the schools, as full of evil.

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Teacher that as required by Tennessee regulations, used Hunter’s A Civic Biology textbook in his classes. In following the mandated state curriculum, he also violated a Tennessee law against the teaching of evolution.

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placed ads in newspapers, including the Chattanooga Times, asking for volunteers to test the law and promising legal counsel. Scopes was a trial member

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Scopes admitted he had vio-lated the law, and he was found guilty and f ned $100, though the Tennessee Supreme Court threw the case out on a technicality to avoid appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which the ACLU wanted.

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try to end the competition among the United States, Britain, and Japan to build up their navies.

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slowed the worldwide navy build up and established limits on battleships, battle cruisers, and aircraf carriers in a ratio of 5 each for the United States and Britain, 3 each for Japan, and 1.75 each for France and Italy. No limits were set for other types of ships.

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Calvin Coolidge

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1928 international treaty that denounced aggression and war but lacked provisions for enforcement.

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U.S. government under Coolidge also enthusiastically encouraged engagement with Latin America, maintaining military force in some countries and doubling investment in others.

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Hoover vs. Smith: Smith was wet and catholic, Hoover was dry and Protestant, religion helped him win