The Twenties: 1919-1929 (Chapters 22 and 23) Flashcards
Mitchell Palmer
-Attorney General
-Anti-Communist Crusade
-Palmer Raids
Shoeless Joe Jackson
-Chicago “Black” Sox Scandal (1919)
-Banned from Baseball
Jazz Music
-Combination of West African rhythms and American European sound
-Born in New Orleans
Jim Thorpe
-Olympian (Won pentathlon & decathlon)
-Professional Baseball & Football
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
-Italian immigrants
-Charged w/ Murder
-Anarchists
-Guilty Verdict
-Sentenced to death August 1927
Marcus Garvey
-Jamaican Immigrant
18th Amendment
-Prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcoholic beverages
-Combat crime, Family violence, Poverty
Speakeasies
-Blind Pigs
Harlem Renaissance
-NY City
-Artists, Writers & Musicians
-Actor: Paul Robeson
-Poet: Langston Hughes
John Scopes
-Scopes Trial
-in Dayton violates the law
Red Scare
-Anti-Communist hysteria
-Rads/Immigrants seen as Commies
-36 Bombs!
-Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
-General Intelligence Division
American Civil Liberties Union
-Scopes Trial
-test constitutionality of the law
Immigration Act of 1924
-Only 2% of immigrants allowed
-Limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe
-Purchasing Power ^ 32%
John L. Lewis
-Led United Mine Workers (UMW) Strike
-Higher pay
-5 day work week
-6 hour days
Teapot Dome
-Albert B. Fall
-Transfer Navy oil lands to Gov
-Fall leased land for cattle, stocks, and cash
-Convicted bribes
Calvin Coolidge
-Keep It Cool… (R 30th)
-“The business of America is Business.”
-(1924) Citizenship for Native Americans
-Cleaned up corruption
Herbert Hoover
-(R 31st) beat Alfred E. Smith (DEM)
Henry Ford
-Model T
-Assembly Line
Babe Ruth
-Baseball most popular sport
flapper
-Defied traditional standards for women
21st Amendment
-1933
-Repealed the 18th Amendment
Albert B. Fall
-Sect. of Interior
effects of automobile
-Billboards
-Growth of Suburbs
-Auto-Tourism
prohibition
-1920-1933
-18th Amendment