Chapter 31 and the bussin twenties Flashcards

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1
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What was the red scare a result of

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Bolshevik revolution of 1917

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What did Americans do after WWI

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return to isolationism, denounce foreign ideas

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What happened that supported the red scare

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bombs were mailed to businesses and political leaders

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What did the large amount of strikes get pinned on

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Communism

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Why were there so many strikes during the twenties

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wages hadn’t caught up with the prices after WWI

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Who was the attorney general which gave the order to round up all suspected of communist anarchist activity

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A. Mitchell Palmer

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What did A Mitchell Palmer’s order to round up those suspected of communist anarchist activity result in

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many civil rights violations and deportations

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Which case reflected the red hysteria of the twenties

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzeth

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Who were the two italian class atheist anarchist/draft dodgers who were likely wrongly convicted of murder in Massachusetts in 1921

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzeth

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What eventually became of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzeth

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execution (like what I thought america werent gonna take foreign ideas but this has big french energy)

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11
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Which group did post war suspicion and fear fuel

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KKK

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What was the KKK

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an anti-foreign, anti-catholic, anti-jewish, and anti-black group. Also hated “decaying moral values of the twenties” (prohibition/women’s rights)

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13
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Which areas were the KKK most involved in

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Midwest and bible belt south (beeeeeeg following in Indiana)

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14
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What us sentiment carried over to feelings of anti-immigrationism

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us isolationism

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What was happening with immigrants and the us during the twenties

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lots and lots of immigrants pouring into the us and gov decided they didn’t like that

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Which act did Congress enact in response to the large amount of immigrants coming to america

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Emergency quota act of 1921

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What did the emergency quota act of 1921 stipulate

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newcomers from europe restricted to quota set at three percent of persons living in US to that nationality based on the 1910 census

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18
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What did the Immigration act act of 1924 stipulate

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changed emergency quota act from three percent to two percent and used 1890’s census

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What did the immigration act of 1924’s use of the 1890’s census mean

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oops no more japanese immigration

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what was one of the last progressive reforms to be enacted

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prohibition

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21
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what was prohibition largely supported by

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crusading churches and women

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22
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What act was prohibition supported by

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Volstead act

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23
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What did the volstead act stipulate

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illegal to manufacture, transport, or sell alcohol

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24
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What ended up happening with trying to enforce the volstead act

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didn’t go well, difficult for law enforcement b/c of home brew and secret establishments

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25
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What did prohibition mean to those who still sold alcohol

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beeeeg profits and competition for profits

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26
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What did competition for profits in the sale of alcohol create?

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gang competition in big cities

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27
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Which city was the center of much gang violence and lawlessness

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chicago

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28
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Who gained control of America’s largest gang during the twenties

A

al capone

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29
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Why did al capone’s gangster reputation suffer?

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st. valentine’s day massacre, also feds were looking for a way to shut him down

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30
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How did the police catch al capone

A

tax evasion

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31
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When was prohibition repealed

A

great depression (because the solution to depression is alcohol… yep… not therapy)

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32
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Who was the member of colombian university from 1904 to 1930 that pushed the concept of learning by doing in education

A

Professor John Dewey

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33
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What was John Dewey considered the father of

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father of the progressive movement in education

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34
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What did fundamentalists believe about darwin’s theory of evolution

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destroyed americaś faith in god/bible and contributed to breakdown of morals in american youth

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35
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What did fundamentalists believe period?

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literal interpretation of bible (word for word)

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36
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In which state was it made illegal to teach any theory of creation not present in the bible

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Tennessee

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What was the name of the law which made it illegal to teach any theory of creation not taught in the bible

A

Butler Law

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38
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Which young high school biology teacher was indicted for teaching evolution in 1925?

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John T. Scopes

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39
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Which well known criminal defense attorney would defend John T. Scopes?

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Clarence Darrow

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40
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Which prosecutor would represent the state of Tennessee during the Scopes Monkey Trial?

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Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan

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Why would the state of Tennessee choose to be represented by prosecutor william jennings byran during the scopes monkey trial?

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He was a well known politician and fundamentalist

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42
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What eventually became of the scopes monkey trial?

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Darrow blitzes Bryan after he calls him out on his knowledge of the bible and makes his fundamentalist ideals seem dumb. Scopes fined one hundred dollars (guilty).

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43
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What caused the rapid growth of the economy following the lull after WWI

A

ingenious machines powered by cheap energy from oil fields

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44
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Who was the model t man and also the assembly line man guy

A

henry ford (brave new world ptsd flashbacks)

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45
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How much was the model t in the early 1900s

A

260$

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46
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What became the automobile capital of the world by 1910

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Detroit (detroit become automobile)

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47
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What did increased competition among manufacturers in the 1920s lead to an increase of

A

advertising

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48
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What created a halt in buying because everyone’s income was consumed by it

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buying on credit/installment plans

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49
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Which businesses experienced an explosive growth due to the booming automobile industry

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Petroleum industry, perishable food, road laying

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50
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Which two brothers began the age of flight with their plane (which only stayed up for like ten seconds)

A

Orville and Wilbur Wright

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51
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Which innovation saw limited use in World War I because of its dangerous nature

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airplanes (flying coffins)

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52
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Which pilot became the first to make a non stop solo flight from New York to Paris

A

Lindbergh

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53
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What happened to the first pilot who became the first to make a non stop solo flight from new york to paris

A

oops lindbergh’s son got kidnapped an dmurdered

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54
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Who created wireless telegraphy in the 1890s

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Guglielmo Marconi

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55
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What paved the way for the voice carrying radio

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Wireless telegraphy’s use in WWI

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56
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What was one of the biggest civilian uses for radio

A

advertisement :(

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57
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Who created the first crude form of the motion picture

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Thomas edison

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58
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What is considered the real birth of the film industry

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release of the film great train robbery

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59
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what was the first released sound film

A

jazz singer

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60
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who led the birth control movement in america

A

margaret sanger

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61
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what was the name used for those who challenged victorian standards for women

A

flappers

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62
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who was the viennese physician who argued sexual repression was responsible for the creation of the flapper

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sigmund freud

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63
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who was the newspaper writer known as the “bad boy of baltimore” who attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition

A

henry l. mencken

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64
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Who wrote the great gatsby

A

f scott fitzgerald

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65
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what was the great gatsby about

A

inability of people to find happiness

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66
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who was an ambulance driver during WWI that wrote a farewell to arms and the sun also rises

A

ernest hemingway

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67
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Who was the master of satire from Minnesota that wrowte main street and babbit

A

Sinclair lewis

68
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What were Main Street and Babbit (the books) about?

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main street middle class america

69
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Who wrote the sound of and the fury as well as As I Lay Dying

A

William Faulkner

70
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What were The Sound and the Fury as well as As I Lay Dying about?

A

constricted souls of Southern characters

71
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Who were the three most notable poets during the twenties

A

Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Roert Frost

72
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Who wrote “The Wasteland”

A

T.S. Elliot

73
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What was the name of the time where many talented african american artists emerged

A

the Harlem Renaissance

74
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Who were the two most well known african american artists to come out of the harlem renaissance

A

Claude McKay and Langston Hughes

75
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Who was the talented trumpeter, composer, and vocalist whose career spanned five decades

A

Louis Armstrong

76
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Who was the talented composer, pianist, and orchestra leader who often performed at the new york city’s cotton club

A

Duke Ellington

77
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Who were the two most well known african american performers who came out of the “jazz age”

A

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington

78
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Who created a unique style of architecture that focused on achievming harmony with the environment

A

Frank Lloyd Wright

79
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What was Frank Lloyd Wright’s unique architectural philosophy called

A

organic architecture

80
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What is a bull market

A

shooting way up, like waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay up, just like bull horns go upward :)

81
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What is a bear market?

A

going down, just like you can go down on a bear in baldurs gate 3

82
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What was the stock exchange like in the 1920s (which market)

A

bull market

83
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How did those who gambled on market bought stocks do it?

A

on margin

84
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what does “on margin” mean?

A

people would put down a small amount of the stock’s price (down payment) to buy the stock

85
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Who was the secretary of the treasury during the twenties who favored the rapid expansion of investment capital

A

Andrew Mellon

86
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What did Andrew Mellon dislike about burdensome taxes caused by the war

A

felt they would force the rich to invest in tax exempt securities instead of industry

87
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Who did Andrew Mellon shift the tax burden to through legislature

A

middle class away from rich

88
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What did Andrew Mellon shoot for in his passed legislature

A

trickle down economics

89
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Did Andrew Mellon’s trickle down economic strat work?

A

no, with the wealthy now exempt from many taxes they invested in stock markets, which pushed the bull market higher

90
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Who were the presidential candidates for the election of 1920

A

Warren Harding and James Cox

91
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Who was the republican presidential candidate for 1920

A

Warren Harding

92
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Who was warren harding’s vp

A

calvin coolidge

93
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Who was the democratic presidential candidate for 1920

A

James Cox

94
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Who was James Cox’s vp

A

Franklin D. Roosevelt

95
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Who won the election of 1920

A

Warren Harding

96
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Who did Harding surround himself with during his presidency

A

people from his home state Ohio who were in it for themselves and took advantage of him/their position

97
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How did president Harding accidentally stopper progressivism

A

appointed 4 court justices of nine, made court lean republican and often overturned progressive legislation

98
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Did Harding lean pro-business or pro-state?

A

pro-business

99
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What did harding leaning pro-business cause?

A

lack of enforcement for anti-trust laws, minimum wage law for women

100
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What were the main problems left after the war

A

race riots/inflation when returning veterans saw blacks who filled in during their leave

101
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What was created for the sake of WWI veterans by congress?

A

the Veterans Administration

102
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What did the veterans administration do

A

operated hospitals and provided rehabilitation for disabled from the war

103
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What was also started as a private organization to help veterans

A

American Legion

104
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What did the American Legion do

A

lobby congress for veteran benefits

105
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Which sentiment had grown substantially after WWI

A

isolationism

106
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What was american unwilling to do after WWI

A

spend more money on ships

107
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Which country had the best navy following world war I

A

Britain (still)

108
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What did Harding call for in regards to the ship situation after WWI

A

Disarmament conference

109
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Who was the american negotiator sent to the disarmament conference

A

Charles Evans Hughes

110
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What treaty resulted from the Disarmament conference in 1921-1922

A

Five Power Naval Treaty

111
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Which countries were part of the five power naval treaty

A

Great Britain, France, Japan, Italy, and the US

112
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What did the five power naval treaty stipulate

A

For every five ships made in the Us, Britain could build five, Japan could build 3, and everyone else could build one

113
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How did the US get japan to agree to the five power naval treaty

A

agreeing to refrain from fortifying possessions in the east/philippines

114
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Which pact declared war illegal

A

Kellogg Brand Pact

115
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What did the Kellogg brand pact do for america?

A

Give US a false sense of security but allow to continue isolationism

116
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What was passed with raised tariff rates from 27% to 38.5%

A

Fordney McCumber Tariff

117
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What was the worldwide reaction to the Fordney McCumber tariff

A

upsetti spaghetti, Europe needed to sell goods to America but they were unable to afford to do so

118
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Why did Europe need to sell goods to america?

A

to pay back their war debts owed to america

119
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What was the worldwide result from the Fordney McCumber tariff

A

international slowdown

120
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Who was the head of the Veteran’s bureau who was forced to resign/imprisoned when it was discovered he’d stolen millions in building funds for veteran hospitals

A

Colonel Charles R Forbes

121
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What was the worst scandal involving Harding

A

Government oil reserves were leased to oilmen

122
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Who was the secretary of the interior that leased goverement oil land to two oilmen

A

Albert B Fall

123
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Who were the two oilmen who were leased government oil land by the secretary of the interior

A

Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny

124
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How did the two oilmen get the secretary of the interior to lease them government oil land

A

bribes

125
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What was the scandal involving government oil land being leased to two oil men called

A

Teapot dome scandal

126
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What happens to harding during his presidency

A

oops dead

127
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Who takes harding’s place as president after his death

A

Calvin Coolidge

128
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What did Coolidge embody as a yankee

A

honesty, morality, frugality, and industry

129
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What happened regarding farming after WWI

A

because farmers had bought more machinery for their farm, after war ended and Europe returned to farming there was no longer a need for American produce

130
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What did the lack of demand for American produce mean for farmers after WWI

A

prices fall like a lot, farmers struggle a whole bunch

131
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Who were the presidential candidates of 1924

A

Coolidge (republican) and John Davis (Democrat)

132
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Who was John Davis

A

wealthy corporation lawyer

133
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Who wins the election of 1924

A

Coolidge

134
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What happened after the US demanded the allies pay back the like ten billion dollars it loaned

A

European nations said tariffs made repayment impossible so they asked germany to pay reparations but germany had no more money

135
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Who did Coolidge send to negotiate the political and economical chaos after the US demanded the allies pay back the loan

A

Charles Dawes

136
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What did the Dawes Plan stipulate

A

rescheduled german reparations, allowed us to loan germany money

137
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What did the Dawes plan lead to

A

US banks loaning germany money, germany paying back britain and france, those two paying back the US

138
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When did the dawes plan stop working

A

US credit drying up during the Great Depression

139
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Who were the presidential candidates for the election of 1928

A

Herbert Hoover (republican) and Al Smith (democrat)

140
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Who was Herbert Hoover

A

guy who encouraged food rationing in WWI, known and beloved, previous secretary of commerce and self made millionionaire

141
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What did herbert hoover promise during his campaign

A

prosperity (chimken in every plate)

142
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What was Al Smith’s deal?

A

Catholic governor of new york, major religious figure to run in a big party

143
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What played a large role in the election of 1928

A

radio

144
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Who did the radio help the most during the election of 1928

A

Herbert Hoover

145
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Who won the election of 1928

A

Herbert Hoover

146
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Which issue was Hoover confronted with once he was in office

A

Farmers’ struggles

147
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How did Hoover try to help farmers (which legislation did he pass)

A

Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929

148
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What did agricultural marketing act of 1929 set up for

A

Federal Farm Loan Board

149
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What did the Federal Farm Loan Board do

A

loan out money to farm organizations seeking to buy/sell/store agricultural surplus

150
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Which tariff was started as a house bill to protect farm products

A

Hawley Smoot Tariff

151
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What did the Hawley Smoot tariff do

A

Raise tariff from 38.5% to nearly 60%

152
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What were the national implications of the hawley Smoot Tariff

A

basically the US declaring economic war on the world

153
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When did the Great Depression happen

A

1929, black tuesday

154
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What happened to cause the Great depression

A

millions of shares of stock sold by people trying to get out of the market

155
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What did the Great Depression cause?

A

Shareholders lose billions and millions out of jobs

156
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What became more common due to the great depression

A

bread lines and soup kitchens

157
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What were the three causes of the great depression

A

Overproduction in farms/factories, unequal distribution of wealth, high tariffs

158
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What sprang up in big cities as people lost their homes

A

“Hoovervilles”

159
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What was Hoover’s approach to the great depression

A

trickle down economics

160
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Why did Hoover think trickle down economics would work

A

believed if economy for those at the top improved, conditions below would also improve

161
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Which corporation did congress establish that led to the government loaning money to banks and big businesses but not individuals

A

Reconstruction finance corporation

162
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What was the problem with Hoover’s trickle down economics

A

provided no immediate relief to those on the streets

163
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What was the name of the group of US veterans who marched to Washington and set up a hooverville on the capital lawn, demanding premature payment of their veteran’s bonus

A

Bonus Expeditionary Force

164
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How did Hoover react to the Bonus Expeditionary force

A

forced them out by force, tear gas and bayonets

165
Q

Who was the general which handled the assignment to forcefully remove the bonus expeditionary force from the capital lawn

A

General Douglas Mac Arthur

166
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What did the forceful removal of the bonus expeditionary force lead to for Hoover

A

more condemnation