The Roaring Twenties

Question 1

Scopes Monkey Trial

Answer 1

John Scopes taught evolution to students and got fined

Question 2

Red Scare

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Americans feared spread of Communism-Birth of USSR

Communism- Everyone has the same access to things

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Isolationism

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New U.S. foreign policy
-Disillusion from WWI

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Fads

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Trends that began famous for a short period of time

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Palmer Raids

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Immigrants suspected of being a communist were arrested and deported

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Laissez Faire

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letting the market control itself without government control.

Question 7

Flappers

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Greater independence for women.
-Short bobbed hair cuts
-Drank/smoked in public

Question 8

Speakeasies

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Places that served alcohol illegally

Question 9

Return to Normalcy

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Campaign wanting to return back to how the world was before the war

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Overproduction

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when companies produce too much of an item

Question 11

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

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Massacre between rival gangs, mostly led by Al Capone

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Bootleggers

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people who illegally would make, buy, or sell alcohol

Question 13

The Jazz Singer

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First “Talkie”- movie with spoken words and replaces silent movies

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The Mob

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Known as the mafia. Played a role in the prohibition era. Bootleggers

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Assembly Line and Mass Production

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Used for basically everything and makes producing goods faster.
More you make, prices go down

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Prohibition

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time where it was illegal to make, buy, or sell alcohol

Question 17

Jazz Music

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Originates in the South
-African Americans and New Orleans
-Critics hated it

Question 18

18th Amendment

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prohibited the making, buying, and selling of alcoholic beverages

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Harlem Renaissance

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A literacy, artistic and musical movement that started a new black cultural identity.

Question 20

Temperance Movement

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Goal to reduce the consumption of alcohol

Question 21

Warren Harding

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Wins election of 1920.
-”Return to Normalcy” Campaign
-Turn things back to pre-WWI

Question 22

Sacco and Vanzetti

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Italian immigrants convicted of murder

Question 23

Charlie Chaplin

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Apart of the silent films

Question 24

Al Capone

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A gangster. Was involved in bootlegging

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Henry Ford

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Founder of Ford Motor Company

Question 26

Babe Ruth

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baseball player

Question 27

John Scopes

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Known for the Scopes Monkey Trial

Question 28

Louis Armstrong

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A famous jazz musician

Question 29

1. Why was the United States in some economic trouble at the beginning of the 1920’s?

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The United States were in some economic trouble at the time because it was at the end of the war and many people coming back from the war needed jobs.

Question 30

2. Explain how Harding’s “Return to Normalcy” campaign of 1920 appealed to so many Americans.

Answer 30

Harding’s “Return to Normalcy” campaign appealed so many Americans because Harding wanted to “get” life back to how it was before WWI. Many Americans wanted that too.

Question 31

3. How did religious groups and the Temperance Movement successfully work for Prohibition?

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Many people put their efforts into establishing the 18th amendment. Many people also had arguments that drinking alcohol is bad.

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4. The enforcement of the 18th Amendment was a disaster from the beginning. What caused its failure?

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Some things that caused failure towards the 18th amendment was that people still drunk in secret and sold alcohol in secret.

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6. The Scopes Monkey Trial really was not about Scopes’ guilt or innocence. What was the trial an argument over?

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The trial had an argument over whether or not schools should teach evolution.

Question 34

5. Why did some women break the social norms of dress and culture in the 1920’s? Give examples of how they changed.

Answer 34

Some women broke the social norms of dress and culture because they wanted to show their independence. Some ways that fashion has changed is flappers had shorted bobbed hair, now women usually have long hair and don't cut it to a bob.

Question 35

7. How did the Red Scare lead to discrimination against immigrants during the 1920’s?

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The Red Scare led to discrimination against immigrants because of the fear of communism and people associated immigrants with racial ideas.

Question 36

8. By the end of the 1920’s there were some indications that the country might be headed in the wrong direction. List some events that caused some concern.

Answer 36

Due to prohibition, there were many crimes happening and illegal activities involiving alcohol. There were also gangsters.