The Twenties: 1919-1929 (Chapters 22 and 23) Flashcards

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Mitchell Palmer

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-Attorney General
-Anti-Communist Crusade
-Palmer Raids

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Shoeless Joe Jackson

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-Chicago “Black” Sox Scandal (1919)
-Banned from Baseball

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Jazz Music

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-Combination of West African rhythms and American European sound
-Born in New Orleans

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Jim Thorpe

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-Olympian (Won pentathlon & decathlon)
-Professional Baseball & Football

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Sacco-Vanzetti Case

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-Italian immigrants
-Charged w/ Murder
-Anarchists
-Guilty Verdict
-Sentenced to death August 1927

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Marcus Garvey

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-Jamaican Immigrant

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18th Amendment

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-Prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcoholic beverages
-Combat crime, Family violence, Poverty

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Speakeasies

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-Blind Pigs

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Harlem Renaissance

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-NY City
-Artists, Writers & Musicians
-Actor: Paul Robeson
-Poet: Langston Hughes

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10
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John Scopes

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-Scopes Trial
-in Dayton violates the law

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Red Scare

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-Anti-Communist hysteria
-Rads/Immigrants seen as Commies
-36 Bombs!
-Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
-General Intelligence Division

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American Civil Liberties Union

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-Scopes Trial
-test constitutionality of the law

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13
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Immigration Act of 1924

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-Only 2% of immigrants allowed
-Limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe
-Purchasing Power ^ 32%

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John L. Lewis

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-Led United Mine Workers (UMW) Strike
-Higher pay
-5 day work week
-6 hour days

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Teapot Dome

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-Albert B. Fall
-Transfer Navy oil lands to Gov
-Fall leased land for cattle, stocks, and cash
-Convicted bribes

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16
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Calvin Coolidge

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-Keep It Cool… (R 30th)
-“The business of America is Business.”
-(1924) Citizenship for Native Americans
-Cleaned up corruption

17
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Herbert Hoover

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-(R 31st) beat Alfred E. Smith (DEM)

18
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Henry Ford

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-Model T
-Assembly Line

19
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Babe Ruth

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-Baseball most popular sport

20
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flapper

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-Defied traditional standards for women

21
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21st Amendment

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-1933
-Repealed the 18th Amendment

22
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Albert B. Fall

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-Sect. of Interior

23
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effects of automobile

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-Billboards
-Growth of Suburbs
-Auto-Tourism

24
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prohibition

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-1920-1933
-18th Amendment

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Ernest Hemingway
-Wounded on Italian front during WW1 -"A Farewell to Arms" -Won Pulitzer for "Old Man and the Sea"
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The Lost Generation
-Artists who reflected the horrors of WW1 -Disillusionment -Ernest Hemingway -F. Scott Fitzgerald -T.S. Eliot -H.L. Mencken
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Clarence Darrow
-Scopes Trial -Defense
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Charlie Chaplin
-Movies
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Charles Lindbergh
-"Lucky Lindy" -Pilot (Spirit of St. Louis) -Flew nonstop NY to Paris -Won $25000 -Worldwide Celebrity
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T.S. Eliot
-"The wasteland" -Poetry: pessimism and despair
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Al Capone
-Chicago Mafia -$100 Million (annually) -St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)
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fundamentalism
-Literal interpretation of the Bible
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assembly line
-1909: $850 -1924: $290 -Repetitive and Boring
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
-"The Great Gatsby" (Emptiness in pursuit of wealth and social status)