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Mitchell Palmer

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WIlsons attorney general.

Violated rights of American Citizens

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Calvin Coolidge

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Governor of Mass
Hero for breaking Boston Police Strike
Becomes VP then President

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Wilbur Wright

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invented the first plane with his brother Orville Wright

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Henry Ford

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Invented Assembly line

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Charles Evans Hughes

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Wanted to limit size of Navys and keep peace

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Frank W. Kellogg

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Secretary of state

Wants to bring peace on earth

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Aristide Briand

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Prime minister of France

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Harry Daugherty

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  • attorney General of the US

- accused of taking bribes from bootleggers

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John Scopes

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  • BIology teacher willing to challenge law against teaching Darwin’s theory of Evolution
  • Gets arrested
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Clarence Darrow

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  • Greatest offence attorney at the time

- represents John Scopes

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William Jennings Bryan

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  • assists prosecution and is expert witness in the Bible from John Scopes case
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Aimee Semple McPherson

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  • communism
  • socialism
  • jazz
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George Herman Ruth

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greatest baseball player in the world

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Charles Lindbergh

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  • pilot who worked on contract for the post office for the air mail
  • prize offered for firt person to fly solo aorud Atlantic
  • spirit of St. Louis (plane)
  • made it across in 3 and a half hours
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Red Scare

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Fear that communist will try to take over. Called reds bc of color of communism

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When you are assumed guilty by who you hang out with

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guilt by association

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All workers in a city all go on strike, same day, dame time.

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general strike

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made cars affordable because of mass production. Invented by Henry Ford

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assembly line

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Limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the US each year

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quota system

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When no new warships were made for 10 years

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naval holiday

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things that wear out from time to time

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planned obsolescence

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young women who danced with short skirts,

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flappers

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a person who smuggles alcohol

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bootlegger

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illegal saloons

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speakeasies

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  • the belief that every word in the Bible is true and actually happened
  • Believed by protestants
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fundamentalism

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Lost Generation

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writers went thorough a rough time during WWI so they would express pessimism through their work

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Harlem Renaissance*

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the burst of creativeness in the black community in the US

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Kitty Hawk

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place where the Wright brothers first took flight

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Ways in which Wilson’s Attorney-General violated the civil rights of American citizens (4)

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1) . searches without warrants
2) . people held for days without any charges filed; violation of habeus corpus
3) . people being held for days without being able to consult an attorney
4) . people being arrested for people they associate themselves with

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Cause of the Chicago race riot of 1919

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Young man accidentally swam on white side of the beach in Chicago. Was stoned and drowned.

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Reasons why Henry Ford decided to pay his workers $5 per day (2)

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Workers were getting bored with assemby line and would quit. If he payed them 5 they stayed because no one else payed that.

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Size and political power of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s?

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Was at it’s largest and most powerful in the 1920’s. The strongest branch of the Klan was in Indiana.

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Reason why the immigration reforms of the 1920s did not apply to the Western Hemisphere

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The laws also did not apply to the Western Hemisphere so migrant workers from Mexico could come and harvest crops in the Southwest of the US.(they would come seasonally and do jobs we wanted them to do)

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Reason why American Indians received American citizenship in 1924

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They fought in the war

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Provisions of the Five-Power Treaty (3)

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  1. No new warships will be built for ten years (Naval Holiday)
  2. Scrap a portion of existing naval fleets; different number depending on how large each country’s navy is
  3. Ratio created to show each country’s gross tonnage is 5:5:3:1.75:1.75; 5 represents US and UK, 3 represents Japan, 1.75 represents Japan and Italy
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Reasons for the growth in consumer spending during the 1920s (4)

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  1. Consumer demand following WWI
  2. Wonderful new products
  3. Most Americans have electricity
  4. Growth of advertising
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Result of the growth of the automobile industry

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More industries grew because cars needed materials

Gas stations and motels were built

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Reasons why women finally received the right to vote following World War I (4)

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  1. Women showed competence in work place.
  2. Show patriotism by being nurses for war
  3. Determination in seeking voting rights
  4. Respond through peaceful protest
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Reasons for the changing image of American women during the 1920s (3)

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  1. Automobile
  2. Appearance in workplace
  3. Movies
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Changes in women’s fashions and behaviors that shocked many Americans during the 1920s (5)

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  1. Short Skirts
  2. Short Hair
  3. Heavy Makeup
  4. Public smoking + drinking
  5. Dating
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Negative results of Prohibition (2)

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  • Organized crime becomes very prominent

- Government officials became very corrupt

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“Firsts” accomplished by Amelia Earhart (3)

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1) . first woman to fly across the Atlantic
2) . first woman to fly across the U.S.
3) . first woman to fly from Hawaii to California

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Who was the first person (ever, in the whole world) killed in an airplane crash?

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Thomas Etholen

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