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1
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What prospered and expanded?

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Corporates

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What new areas did business venture into?

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Autos, chemicals, radio and movies, (tech)

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What increased

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Output and profit

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What opportunities and wages increased?

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Employment opportunities and wages increased

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What was the economy fueled by?

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Public confidence (post WWI)

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What were sick industries?

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Coal, textile, railroads, and agriculture

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What did not rise with production?

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Consumer purchasing power (inflation)

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What led to over speculation in real estate and stocks?

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“Get rich quick”

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9
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Labor strife

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corporations

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10
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Boston Police Strike (1919)

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rioting, looting, violence

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What did the number of factory workers increase to?

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7 million

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12
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Racial Strife

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Friction in the cities

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13
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Who were angered by discrimination?

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African Americans

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14
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Who feared competition for jobs?

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White-Americans

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15
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How many race riots were there in 1919?

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25

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What did the Chicago riot start?

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Starts over altercation at public beach -> six days of violence

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What is Red Scare?

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Fear of Communism

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18
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What were bomb scares tied to?

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Radical Organizations

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19
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What were some radical organizations?

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Anarchists, galleanists, and socialists

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Who were the targets for the bomb scares?

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Politicians, wealthy, powerful, and opponents of radicals

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21
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Who went after radicals?

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Attorney general

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22
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Red Scare

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Russian revolution (Bolshevik takeover)

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When was the U.S. Communist party formed?

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After the bloody revolution follows

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24
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Who supported African American immigrants, labor unions?

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Communist party

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A. Mitchel Palmer

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Attorney general who theorized that the strife was caused by the Bolsheviks

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26
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Who begins to harass communists?

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A. Mitchel Palmer

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27
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Fear of Foreigners

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Nativism

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Who believes they are superior to new immigrants

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WASP (upper class, White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant)

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What set limits on immigrants

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Immigrations Quotas (1921)

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30
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What reduced quotas each year?

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National Origins Act (1924)

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31
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When was the revival of the Klu Klux Klan?

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1915

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32
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What was the silent movie by D.W. Griffiths?

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“Birth of a Nation”

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33
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Who were Italian Anarchists?

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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34
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What were Sacco and Vanzetti mistrusted for?

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Beliefs/ethnicity

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What were Sacco and Vanzetti suspected for?

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The bombings of 1919

36
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Who gained the right to vote?

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Women (19th amendment)

37
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What was created when taken out of work place?

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Prolonged adolescence

38
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What became mandatory?

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High school education

39
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What increased in education?

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College enrollment

40
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Who was the intellectual voice of the Black Community?

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W.E.B DuBois

41
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Fifty Years and Other Poems

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James Weldon Johnson

42
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White Shadows

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Claude McKay

43
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Who wrote poetry to describe Black tragedies?

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Langston Hughes

44
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Where was the Scopes Monkey Trial?

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Dayton, Tennessee

45
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Who taught Darwinism?

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John Scopes

46
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Who opposed Darwinism?

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William Jennings Bryan

47
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Who was America’s greatest defense attorney?

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Clarence Darrow

48
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Industry creates boom in?

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Rubber (tires), steel, glass

49
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Industry creates what kind of new businesses?

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Motels, roadside restaurants (HoJo’s), and gas stations

50
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Warren Harding got his start as the owner of a?

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Weekly newspaper in Ohio

51
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Before becoming President, Harding served as a?

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Lieutenant governor and Senator

52
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The group of corrupt “friends” that Harding used as advisors while President were nicknamed the?

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Ohio gang

53
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The treaty that called for the nations with the most powerful naval forces to limit the sized of their nativities?

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Five Power Treaty

54
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The treaty that called for an “Open Door” in China was?

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Nine Power Treaty

55
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The treaty that states that Britain, France the U.S. and Japan would respect the other’s holding in the Pacific was the?

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Four Power Treaty

56
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These three treaties were negotiated at the?

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Washington Conference

57
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Harding’s contribution to the financial management of the nation was the?

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Budget and accounting act

58
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The protectionist tariff that led to retaliation from Europe was the?

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Fordney-McCumber tariff

59
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The demand by World War One veterans for extra money based on their service during the war?

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The bonus bill

60
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Harding’s Attorney General who was accused of wrongdoing while in office?

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Harry Daughtery

61
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Harding’s Secretary of the Interior?

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Albert Fall

62
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Albert Fall was involved in which famous scandal?

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Attempted theft of the national oil reserves

63
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How did Coolidge become President?

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After Harding was assassinated

64
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What was Coolidge’s nickname?

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Silent Cal

65
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Who was the candidate for the Democrats in the election of 1924?

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John W. Davis

66
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What was Coolidge’s campaign slogan in the election of 1924?

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Keep Cool with Coolidge

67
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What was Coolidge’s most famous quote regarding business? How does this quote reflect his feelings towards big business?

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“The business of America is business” he believed not to interfere with the economy

68
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Why did Robert Lafollette leave the Republican Party and run as a progressive candidate in 1924?

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He was protesting the treatment of farmers

69
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How did Coolidge view the problems of the farmers?

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He said farmers were always poor and nothing could be done to help them

70
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Who was the Candidate for the Democrats in the election of 1928?

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Al Smith

71
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What was Al Smith’s claim to fame?

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He was the first Roman Catholic to run for President

72
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Who was the candidate for the Republicans in the election of 1928?

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Herbert Hoover (he headed the food administration)

73
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What was Hoover’s position in the Harding and Coolidge administrations?

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Secretary of Commerce

74
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List four products that became readily available due to mass production in the twenties

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Phonograph- Vinal Record Player
Refrigerator
Automobile
Radio

75
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What advances were made in the Health during the 1920’s?

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Childhood diseases (measles, typhoid fever) brought under control, improvements in hygiene

76
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What advances were made in education during the 1920’s?

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Free, compulsory, secondary education

77
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List four aspects of this decade that led to it being labeled the “Jazz Age”

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Music
Movies
Flappers
Speakeasies

78
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Baseball

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Babe Ruth

79
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Boxing

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Jack Dempsy/ Gene Tunney

80
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Golf

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Bobby Jones

81
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Who was the biggest hero of the 1920’s

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Charles Lindbergh

82
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What did Charles Lindbergh Accomplish?

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First solo, non-stop transatlantic airplane flight

83
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Newspaper man who referred to the American people as the “booboisie”

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H.L. Mencken (Editor for Baltimore Sun)

84
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Why were the writers of the 1920’s “disillusioned” with society?

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World War I, post-war world, failure of 14 points

85
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List 5 popular writers of the 1920’s who belonged to this “disillusioned” school of writing

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Sinclair Lewis
Sherwood Anderson
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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