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Rowing 20's Flashcards

1
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What music was becoming popular in America?

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Big Band Jazz

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2
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What was the Song of the Day?

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Charleston

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3
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Biggest movie night?

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Saturday

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What were theaters called?

Who went there?

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Movie Palaces

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two biggest sports in the 20’s
What was so special?

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Baseball and Boxing
It would be on the radio

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Associated Press

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A company that gets stories from all over the U.S. and sells them to other companies

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Ticker Tape

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A machine that ticked out the latest News stories.

Helps to spread news faster

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Ticker Tape Parade

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People would cut the ticker tape paper and throw it out the window for comfettie

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Who was the Great Communicator?

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Ronald Ragen

He was the announcer for the Cubs

When he was a kid he would read the ticker tape as the game was going

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10
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Movie Theater Schedules

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  • NewsReels
    Main news stories
  • Cartoons
    Disney was good at this
  • Shorts
    Commodities ( 3 Studies)
  • Main Feature\
    The main movie ( only for 1hr or so)
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11
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Education in the 1920’s was turned on its head, why?

What trial would be held because of it?

Who was the attorney of the trial

Why did this story spread?

A

Science teachers were teaching about evolution

Scopes Trials

William Jennings Bryan

Because it was secularism vs religion

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The Great Migration

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People moving from the south to the north or California

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13
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Diaspora

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To send out

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Mississippi Delta

Why was it bad?

Why was it good after they moved there?

A

Emancipated Slaves moved here and built huge Leavies

It would flood

The ground was full of nutrients

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15
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What type of music was developed in the Mississippi delta

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Blues

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16
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What music was developed in Chicago

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Chicago blues

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17
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Black Metropolis

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Bronzeville

They played Jazz from New Orleans

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Harlem Renaissance

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19
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WHy did people leave Mississippi to Chicago? Push factors?

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  • new inventions
  • racism
  • bull weave (insects)
  • Jim Crow laws
  • job opportunities
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20
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Whats the biggest city in mississippi

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chicago

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21
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What did Chicago have most cities din’t have?

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Black-run news paper

Chicago “Defender”

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22
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What train line leaves New Orleans and goes to Chicago

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Illinois Central

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What would people do to go to Chicago?

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Walk along the track of the Illinois Central

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24
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Pullman porters

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helpers on a train that would get to your every need.

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25
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How did people get their hands on the Chicago defender?

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By Pullman porters

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26
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WHat cause the great depression?

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People took out loans and bought a bunch of stock.
This led to inflation and the market crashed

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27
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What happened in the Great Depression?

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High unemployment
poverty - income falls

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28
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What was looked down upon in the great depression?

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taking unemployment checks

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29
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How did people livly hood in the great depression?

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  • poor diet
  • no good food
  • quicker aging
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30
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Who was the president in the Great Depression?

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Herbert Hoover

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31
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What happened to many men who had lost their jobs in the great depression

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Since these men only had skills in factory work, they had no real-life work

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32
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What did men who left their families do in the great depression

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They would go to parks and build “houses” called Hoovervilles.

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33
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What did WW1 vets do when they didn’t get there paychecks?

What was the problem with the WW1 vets

A

They would go live in the Hoovervilles

The government didn’t like the Hoovervilles, so police had to come in and push em out

However, the WW1 vets were strong so the military had to step in

34
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What was the Dust Bowl

A

A drought complemented by poor land management

  • Farmers that got land from the Homestead Act, No science in land management
35
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What did people want to do when the stock market crashed?

What did the banks say?

A
  • They wanted to get all their out of the bank
  • The bank said they didn’t have their money caused the stock market crashed
36
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What was the relationship between people and big banks

A

trust was lost

37
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Since we were a global economy how were the other countries of the world reacting to the great depression?

A

Other countries in Europe and America started to put tariffs on other countries and us.

38
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What was Herbert Hoover’s plan for the Great Depression?

A

Just ride out the Great Depression?

39
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After Hoover’s one term, who was the next president?

A

Franklin D. Roosevelt

40
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What is “The New Deal”

A

we are the government and we are here to help

41
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How did the U.S. government pay people

A

they paid people from the federal income tax

42
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How does the government combat bank trust

A

they made banks take out insurance on their assets

43
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What is (FDIC)

A

Bank-funded Insurance system

44
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What did the government spend money on in the 20s

A
  • rout 30 (Lincils highway)
  • rout 41
  • Dixy highway
  • rout 66

(Dams, electricity)

45
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TVA

A

Tennesse Vally Authority

46
Q

Where was the First Battle of WW2

where did we send the German prisoners?

what do they do?

A

North Africa

The German prisoners were sent to the CCC barracks

The Germans worked for the farmers

47
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CCC

A

Civilian Conservation Core

  • 18-25 guys who get hired by gov’t to teach them how to be a civil engineer
  • during the week they get trained (weekends they get freedom)
  • they get paid 1 dollar a day
48
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WPA

A

Work Projects Administration

Hired artist to paint on government buildings

49
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Colorado River

what did they do with it?

A

the main water source for southern California

They made dams (Hoover Dam)

50
Q

Social Security

what was the intention?

A

help for elderly, unemployed, disabled

It was intended as an income supplement ( not to live on it)

51
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What started to grow during this time?

A

Unions

52
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What did Christians feel about Unions

A

They felt like they couldn’t be a part of them
(not good practices)
(associated factories)

53
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What happens to FDR on his fourth turn?

A

He has a heart attack

54
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what party was running the country from 1940-60

A

Demecrats

55
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What happened to Germany after WW1

A

Reparations

Germany is not in good shape

56
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When does Adolf Hitler come into power in Germany (Supreme Ruler)

A

1933 - 1945

57
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Hitler as a young boy, what is he?

A

He’s Austrian

58
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What did his teachers say bout him during his school years?

A

He wouldn’t listen, he wouldn’t apply himself to school

59
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How were his parents

A

He loved his mom
and hated his dad

60
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What happened to him when he put together his portfolio when he wanted to go to the Art School in Viana

Why did they reject him?

A

He got rejected

He couldn’t paint people

61
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What did Hitler do in Viana to make money

A

he sketched postcards

62
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How does Hitler become German?

A

He enlists in the army during WW1 and gets German citizenship

63
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When Hitler gets hurt in the war he gets put into a hospital, WHy did Hitler get pissed?

A

Because Germany gets put in Armisist

Armisist - bring the war to a close

64
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What happened to Germany after the war

A

They have to pay a lot of countries money and coal and other resources

65
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What job did Hitler get to stay in the Army?

A

He goes around Germany to talk against Communism

66
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What ideas does Hitler get when he starts public speaking

A

He starts thinking that there should be new government

67
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Who are the Brown Shirts?

A

The NAzi party

got the uniform for cheap.

68
Q

What did Hitler do in Jail

A

He writes “Mine Comf”

“my struggle”

69
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Why was Hitler released from jail

A

because the government new his group would riot

70
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What does Hitler do with the German people

A

he asked them is “Life could get any worse, if not join us”

71
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Benito Mussolini

A

Italian dictator

72
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Who is Hitler’s hero?

A

Benito Mussolini

73
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Who was the pope getting scared in the Vatican

A

He was getting scared that Italy would get so bad that they would have to move the Vatican to a new city.

74
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Now that Hitler has more people than the Nazis What does Hitler do?

A

He wants to get his party in power so they can choose who they want to be leaders

75
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Herman Goring

A
  • SA
  • “Storm Troopers” (Brownshirts
  • He was the commander of the private army
  • The nazi has its own private army
76
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Adolph Eichman

A
  • “Final Solution”
  • Extermination of the Jews
77
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How was Hitler smart about the documentation of all the Nazi’s war crimes

A

He never had his name on any order or crimes

78
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Joseph Goebbels

A
  • Director of Propaganda
  • Nazis were masters of propaganda
  • he would have plains and drop leaflets for the Nazi party
79
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What is the SS

A
  • Hitlers Bodyguards
  • Hitler stole the idea from Napolean
  • Special Ops group
80
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Heinrich Himmler

A
  • Leader of the SS
81
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What is the SD

A
  • Gestapo
  • Secret Police
82
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Eva Braum

A

Hitlers Girl Friend
Before he committed suicide they got married and they both committed suicide together

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