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Unit 4: The Roaring Twenties Flashcards

1
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Who were the 3 presidents during the 1920s?

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  1. Warren harding (1921-1923)
  2. Calvin Collidge (1923-1929)
  3. Herbert Hoover (1929-1933)
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What was the quota system?

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limiting the # of immigrants entering the US

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What are some other names for the 1920s?

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  • The Roaring Twenties
  • The Jazz Age
  • The Golden Age of Sports
  • Harlem Renaissance Era
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4
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What changed during the 1920s?

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  • Transportation
  • Technology
  • Fashion
  • Life Style
  • Habits
  • Values
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Who created the Model T and what was it?

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  • Henry Ford
  • an automobile
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Who was Ford not a fan of?

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  • Blacks & Jews
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What were some popular inventions during the 1920s?

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  • Automibile
  • Radio
  • Phones
  • Washing Machines
  • Toasters
  • Refrigerators
  • Electric iron
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What does “Keeping Up with the Joneses” mean?

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keeping up with the latest trends

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What was Amendment #19?

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Women’s Rights -> granted women the right to vote

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What was a flapper?

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  • short hair
  • short skirt to the knees
  • lipstick
  • make up
  • nylons
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What did women gain in the 1920s?

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  • independence
  • freedom
  • better jobs
  • respect
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Examples of flappers in the 1920s:

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  • The Gibson Girl
  • Clara Bow
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When was the 19th Amendment ratified?

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August 18th 1920

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Who were some people who fought for Women’s Suffrage?

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  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Alice Paul
  • Francis Willard
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Who was the most notorious gangster of the Prohibition Era?

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  • Alphonse Capone
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16
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Why was Al Capone famous?

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  • acts of charity as well as for circulating the hated Prohibition Laws
  • ordered killing of rivals in the St. Valentine’s Massacre in 1929
17
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What was the 18th Amendment?

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illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol

18
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What was the 21st Amendment?

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repeal of prohibition

19
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What were some cons of the Prohibition laws?

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  • costly
  • cost $300M to try and enforce prohibition
  • $11B of dollars lost due to not being able to legally tax alcohol
  • financial windfall for the federal government
20
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What were speakeasies and bootleggers?

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S = nightclubs where illegal liquor, jazz and the Charleston were found
B = a person who makes or sells goods illegally

21
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Volstead Act:

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prohibited the production, sale, transportation, and possession of beverages that contained 0.5% or greater alcohol by volume

22
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Youth Rebellion:

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  • wanted to live in the moment
  • wore baggy trousers
  • raccoon coats
  • girls rolled stockings down
  • open talk about kissing and sex
23
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Pros of prohibition of alcohol?

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  • reduced a national consumption of alcohol from 2.6 gallons per capita
  • arrests for drunkenness fell off sharply
  • deaths of alcoholism fell off sharply
24
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What were some fads?

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  • The Charleston
  • Flagpole sitting
  • Mah-Jongg
  • Phonebooth Stuffing
25
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Who was involved in the Scopes “Monkey” Trial:

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  • John Scopes
  • Clarence Darrow
  • William Jennings Bryant
26
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What happened during the Scopes “Monkey” trial?

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John Thomas Scopes told students they came from monkeys and parents were upset because they wanted the children to believe they are from Adam and Eve

27
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What is fundamentialism?

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god is the answer to everything and if not then you go to hell

28
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What was the KKK and what does the KKK stand for?

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  • The Ku Klux Klan
  • an American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organization and hate group
  • first terrorist organization in US
29
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Who did the KKK like?

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  • White
  • Anglo
  • Saxon
  • Protestant
30
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What was the Immigration Act of 1924?

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US federal law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the # of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe

31
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What was the Sacco and Vanzetti Case?

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  • arrested for 2 Massachusetts murders
  • they were alienated bc they were Italian
32
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Who were some of the KKK’s targets?

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  • Catholics
  • Jews
  • African Americans
33
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What was the Red Scare?

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  • fear of communism
34
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What were the 3 genres of music blended in jazz?

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  • West African
  • Latin American
  • European harmonies
35
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Name some popular jazz musicians:

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  • Louis Armstrong
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Duke Ellington
36
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When, where and why did African Americans migrate

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  • 1890
  • North
  • search for greater freedom and work opportunities
37
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What was the 1st Talkie in the US?

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The Jazz Singer w/ Al Jolson in 1927

38
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What did Lindbergh accomplish and what tragedy happened?

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  • Flied solo to Paris across the atlantic ocean and his baby was kidnapped and killed
39
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Why was Lindbergh not a good person?

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  • raging nazi
  • had german children

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