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The Roaring 20s Test Flashcards

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What are bootleggers?

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Bootleggers worked in alcohol plants when it was legal and they are mainly from the south. They dealt with illegal alcohol on land.

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What are 3 reasons for prohibition?

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  1. Temperance movement, women wanted to stop domestic violence
  2. Grains and sugar were being wasted
  3. Moral Crusaders, 3rd Great Awakening in religion. Alcohol is evil.
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What are Rum Runners?

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Rum Runners illegally transported alcohol by sea. They would anchor by the international water line so they couldnt get arrested.

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What was the Purple Gang?

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The ruthless and violent gang from Detroit that ran the illegal alcohol transactions there. They had over 500 unsolved murders in one at one time.

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Who was Al Capone?

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Famous leader of the Purple Gang and was responsable for the Valentine’s day massacre.

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What is a Flapper?

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A women in the 1920’s with bobbed or cut hair to fit hats. They wore clothes that exposed their legs and neck and they smoked cigarrettes. They were very rebellious.

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What was the Scopes Trial?

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A trial where a teacher broke the law by teaching the Theory of Evolution. He lost the case.

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What was the spirit of St. Louis?

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A plane that flew from New York City to Paris captaibed by Charles A. Lindhburg. It took 34 hours and went successfully.

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What were Talkies?

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Talkies were movies with sound. The era of movies with sound was created by Al Johnson.

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What was Model T?

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A car built by Ford that most Americans could afford. The first car that wasn’t so exspensive.

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What was the Jazz Age

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A revolution of Jazz in the 1920s. Many people liked to listen and dance to jazz, it rooted from African American rhythms and the best jazz player were African American.

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

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A time period in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City where literature flowered, many famous stories were written by authors there.

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What was the Quota Act?

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The act that limited the number of immigrants from countries in Europe, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand to a yearly total of 357,000. Each nations limit was 3% of the number of people who were born in that nation living in the us in 1910, it was later reduced.

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What was the 18th Amendment?

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The Amendment that bans the selling, transporting, importing, or exporting of alcoholic beverages.

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What was the 19 Amendment?

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An amendment that gives women the right to vote and participate in elections.

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What is the 21st Amendment?

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The amendment that repealled amendment and ended prohibition.

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Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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The author if the novel “This side of Paradise” It was about college age youths who were tired of the past and ready to seek romance and pleasure in their own way.

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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

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Two Italian Immigrants who were arrested and charged with stealing the payroll of a shoe factory and killing employees. They were anarchists who wanted to do away with the government entirely. Even though the criminal evidence was questionable, they were sentenced to death. Many people felt the should get a fair trial and they protested.

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What was the Red Scare?

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The term used to describe the tense atmosphere in 1919, where resentments often flared into terrorism. Packages with bombs inside were sent to governement officials. It was because Americans feared the soread of Russian communism. People blamed Bolshevik for the bombs and teachers had to swear loyalty to the government.

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Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?

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A U.S. attourney general who ordered striking UMW workers back to work, they didnt ever go back.

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What was the KKK in the 1920s?

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KKK had huge membership in the 1920s. It was reborn in 1915 in Stone Mountain. GA and had new enemies. They were opposed to Roman Catholics, Jews, and African Americans. They went into politics and got certain senotors elected. Their leader was convicted of murder and they basically fell apart.

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What was the NAACP?

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The NAACP was the Nation Association for Advancement of colored people. They battled for black rights and against prejudice.

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What was The Flaming Youth?

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A book written by Samuel Hopkins Adams, it was controversial at its time. It was about “Flappers” and Yankee women and it was later made into a film.

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Who was Marcus Garvey?

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A black author in the Harlem Renaissance that urged African Americans to go “back to Africa”, where they could find a sense of belonging.

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What were Speakeasies?

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A speakeasie was a party club that illegally had alcohol during prohibition.

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What was the Harding-Washington Naval Conference?

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A meeting of major world leaders that passed...
•No chemical warfare
•No building battleships
•Limit Navy Size formula 
•Self determination for pacific islands
•Open door policy in China
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What was the Coolidge-Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928?

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A pact made with the US Secretary of State and Aristade Briand of France and they “Renounced war as means of solving problems”, war is illegal. All of the 60+ nations that agreed can not use war as offensive means.

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What was the Coolidge-Dawes Plan?

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US gives Germany 800 million dollar loan because
•Ger will pay France and Eng back
•Ger will rebuild
•France and Eng will rebuild
•Ger will repay US interest
•All 3 will buy US goods
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What was the Budget and Accounting Act?

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There is a Gov. agency of mathemeticians responsible for counting and calculating Americas money to make a budget.

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How did Harding do Tax Cuts?

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  • Cut all brackets
  • Wealthy went from paying 77% of income to 46% of income
  • meant for people to invest money in business
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What were Hardings Solutions to problems?

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  1. Budget and Accounting Act
  2. Tax Cuts
  3. Unregulated business
  4. Made 4 of 9 supreme court justices conservative
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What was the Emergency Act of 1921?

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An act by Harding where 28 farm products were picked and a 27% tariff was created on them.

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What was the Fordney McCumber Act?

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Tariff on more goods the the Emergency Act and made tariffs 38%

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What was the farming problem in the 1920s?

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We had s big surplus of farm food and it lost its value and farmers had no money and had loans to pay back. They also had a ton of extra land.

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What was Coolidge’s solution to the farming problem.

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  1. Continue Emergency and Fordney Tariffs

2. McNary Haugen Act(Not passed)

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What was the McNary Act?

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  • Gov. buys surplus food from farmers at wartime prices
  • Gov builds warehouses to store it and the sell it to other countries
  • Never Passed
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What is the Veteran’s bereau?

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A gov. agency for war veterans. Hospitals for veterans only are run and owned by the government.

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Who was Charles Forbes?

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Head of the veterans bereau responsible for the Forbes scandal.

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What is a “Front porch campaign”?

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Harding’s campaign that was literally from his front porch in Ohio.

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What was the Forbes Scandal?

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Charles Forbes was head of the Veteran’s Bereau and he hired contractors to build hospitals that give him kickbacks, he sold supplies for profits and conducted illegal alcohol and drug deals.

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Who was Harry Daugherty?

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A friend and campaign manager for Harding during the election of 1920 and he was appointed Attourney General of the US.

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What was the Daugherty Scandal?

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Harry Daugherty took bribes from gangsters arrested for selling alcohol, he profited from sales of gov. alcohol supplies taken from illegal distributers, sold pardons for criminals, and somd German war material for a profit.

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Who was Calvin Coolidge known as?

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“Silent Cal”

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What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

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Albert Fall(Secretary of Interior) conducted a secret deal intended for rented Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California, oil facility(naval reserve), to his friend oilman Harry Sinclair of Mammoth Oil. Fall gained 400k of profits and gifts personally.

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What is “Rugged Individualism”?

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An idea that criticizes democrats ideas of big government as a way to solve problems of prohibition, farm relief, veterans relief, and electrical power. He believes in free enterprise and and person responsibility.

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Whats was normalcy?

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America wanted to go back to normal after WW1, and ignore world affairs, and this word was used to describe that.

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What was the Ohio Gang?

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A group of president Harding’s government “friends” who were scandalous. They used the tunnels under the white house to get illegal alcohol and women. They would also gamble and play poker.

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What was the backgroun of Warren G. Harding?

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  • Newspaper editor
  • Ohio and US senator, pride of ohio
  • Front Porch campaign, republican
  • Small town, limited education, wanted normalcy but didnt know what it meant
  • Ohio Central College
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What was the background of Calvin Coolidge?

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  • Known as “Silent Cal”
  • Small town
  • Called “The Puritan”(Anticorruption)
  • Republican, governor of MA
  • Worked on family farm
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What was the background of Herbert Hoover?

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  • From Iowa, no parents at the age of 12
  • Moved to Oregon with his Uncle, and picked himself back up from his traumatic experiences
  • Republican
  • Started his own business
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What were the achievements of Harding?

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  • Budget and Accounting Act
  • Tax Cuts
  • Quota law
  • Front Porch Campaign
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What were the achievements of Coolidge?

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  • Tax Cuts
  • Balanced Budget
  • Got oil in middle east
  • Cut spending
  • Great Properity
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What were the follies of Harding?

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  • Emergency Act, Fordney McCumber Act
  • Teapot Dome Scandal, Forbes Scandal, Harry Daugherty Scandal, Ohio gang
  • Rejected Bonus Bill and Veterans Bereau
  • Washington Naval Conference was ineffective
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What were the follies of Coolidge?

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  • Tariffs damaged economy
  • Did not regulate stock market
  • Didnt enforce federal reserve
  • Laissez-Faire, let monopolies go
  • Kellogg-Briand pact
  • Rejected 2nd bonus bill and McNary Haugen Act
  • Stock market crashed
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What were the follies of Hoover?

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  • Took over with stock during stock market crash

* Took over during Great Depression

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