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Roarin' 20s Study Guide Flashcards

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How did the automobile change the country socially?

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Suburban culture. More privacy, and dating. People could go on trips

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How did the automobile change education?

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It made it more accessible, and led to a division of grades in classrooms.

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What other industries boomed because of the automobile?

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Steel, hotels and motels, diners, paint, and oil.

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How did Ford make the automobile more affordable for the masses?

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Made it affordable through mass production which, in turn, lowered prices.

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Name 2 push factors for African Americans (Great Migration)

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Racism (Jim Crow Laws), Cycle of Debt they faced, couldn’t vote

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Name 1 pull factor (Great Migration)

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Industrial jobs

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Who did The Great Migration effect in the north and south

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In the north it affected factor workers and people in the work force because their wages were lowered due to competition in the market, and in the south the KKK made a resurgence.

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What was the social outcome of The Great Migration?

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Race riots

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What is the overall importance to American culture during the 20s? (Harlem Renaissance)

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This is the first time black culture in mainstream American culture.

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Name three famous artists and their mediums (Harlem Renaissance)

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Louis Armstrong (Jazz)
Langston Hughes (Poetry)
Zora Neale Hurston (Literature)
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What was so unique about jazz? (Harlem Renaissance)

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Improvisation meant that no two sets were the same

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Name the famous club in Harlem and its band leader (Harlem Renaissance)

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The Cotton Club, Cab Calloway

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Who coined the term “Jazz Age?” (Harlem Renaissance)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Name three sports heroes and their chosen sport. (Sports and fads)

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Babe Ruth (Baseball)
Red Grange (Football)
Jack Dempsey (Boxer)
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What is Charles Linbergh’s claim to fame? (Sports and fads)

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Flew across the Atlantic on a solo flight. New York, to Paris.

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How did sports and fads become so popular throughout the decade? (Sports and fads)

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Radio

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Name one fad or news story considered to be superficial “ballyhoo.” (Sports and fads)

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Crossword Puzzles, Magang, The Monkey Trial

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Name the three presidents, in order, as well as their political parties (Presidents)

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All republican, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

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What economic policy did they adhere to? How did it help lead to the “boom cycle?” (Presidents)

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They prefer Laissez Faire, business not micromanaged, overproducing, people are using credit to buy these products, which means they make more profit and then they expand and boom

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Describe what Harding’s “return to normalcy” meant. (Presidents)

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Basically it meant returning to how things were before WWI, but it was ironic because the 20s were nothing like it was before WWI

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Describe Harding (Presidents)

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Dumb, savvy to some degree, unfit, weak, corruptible, petty

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Describe Coolidge. (Presidents)

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Awkward, stoic, frugal, quiet

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Name two scandals that Harding’s cabinet or administration was involved in? What did each scandal entail? (Presidents)

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Teapot Dome Scandal, secretary of interior wanted to make money off of oil
Father Scandal, Nan P. Britton, claimed that her daughter was the child of harding

24
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What was accomplished at the Washington Naval Arms Conference of 1921 and which countries were involved?

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The U.S., GB, and Japan were limiting the amount of battleships that they built

25
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Give two specific examples of how women’s lives changed throughout the 20s. (Women)

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More independence, easier to do housework got jobs

26
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What initially allowed women to shed old roles throughout the 20s? (Women)

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Participation in industry during WWI

27
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Who was considered one of the most famous flappers? (Women)

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Zelda Fitzgerald

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What two things allowed Americans to engage in mass consumption of goods? (Consumer Economy)

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Mass production, credit and installment plans

29
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What were Americans buying in large quantities? (Consumer Economy)

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Cars, Stock, radio, vacuum cleaners, washing machines

30
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How did mass consumption contribute to the ‘boom cycle’ (Consumer Economy)

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More money to companies

31
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Who was on trial and why? (Scopes-Monkey Trial)

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Monkey represents evolution. John Scopes because he was found guilty of teaching the theory of evolution in Tennessee

32
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Who defended him and prosecuted him? (Scopes-Monkey Trial)

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Prosecuted, William Jennings Bryan

Defended, Clarence Darrow

33
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Why was there such national attention to this court case? (Scopes-Monkey Trial)

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Science and religion butted heads

34
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What were the Palmer Raids? Who conducted them and why? (The Red Scare)

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They were afraid that people were communist. Mitchell Palmer conducted them, afraid of the Bolshevik revolution coming to America.

35
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What was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial about and why were they ultimately found guilty? (The Red Scare)

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They were accused of murder but were ultimately found guilty of being anarchist, atheist, and Italian, rip

36
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What were the series of immigration laws pass throughout the 20s designed to do? (Immigration)

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Establishing quotas from various regions from across the world of how many people from each region could come

37
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Where did Americans favor immigrants coming from and not favor? (Immigration)

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We liked white, protestant, english speakers. We like western and northern Europe as opposed to like others. Didn’t like southern and Easter Europe, and China because of communism.

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What did the KKK want to fight against? (Intolerance)

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The KKK wanted to fight against modernity, they feared modernization, and change that was happening throughout the 20s. They also hated several races.

39
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What do the following have in common?

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Red Scare
Resurgence of the KKK
Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
There was a hatred from American Groups

40
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What did prohibition specifically ban? (Alcohol)

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Production, manufacturing, and selling of

41
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What was the name of an illegal bar? (Alcohol)

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Speakeasies

42
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Who ran most of the illegal bars in Chicago? (Alcohol)

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Al Capone, ultimately found guilty of tax evasion

43
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List two results of Prohibition (Alcohol)

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A rise in organized crime, blatant disregard for law enforcement.

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What cause their disillusionment? (“Highbrows”)

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They were focusing on all the bad stuff going on following the war. They were disillusioned as to why everyone wasn’t. They were pissed and pissed that others weren’t.

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Where did they feel most comfortable? (“Highbrows”)

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Europe, Paris

46
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Name one important American author whose works reflect “highbrow” views (“Highbrows”)

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Hemingway

47
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Explain two outcomes of buying stock on margin (Economy)

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You basically put a down payment, and pray that the stock price will rise so that you can pay back the loan. If the stock doesn’t go up, then you get all of you stuff repossessed.

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How does speculation within the stock market alter the value of stock? How did that contribute to the crash? (Economy)

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If you over speculate the value, and overvalue if you wont have the amount of money that you think you have. If you overvalue the stock and it ends up not being that much money, you lose a ton of money.

49
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What day did the stock market crash? (Economy)

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People were spending more money than the stock was actually valued at. October 29th, 1929.

50
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50

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Because I can’t have just 49 cards

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