Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

US History > unit 5 > Flashcards

unit 5 Flashcards

1
Q

What is demobilization

A

(transformation fro wartime to peace production level).

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

After WW1 ended abruptly what happened

A
  1. full capacity production of military supplies ended
  2. wartime business lost 2 Billion in gov. contracts.
  3. wartime consumer good shortages = high prices.
    caused a recession of 1920-21
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

how many soldiers came back from WW1

A

4.5 million returned

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What happened after the soldiers returned

A

Women were forced to give up their jobs

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

After women giving up their jobs what did this cause

A

This caused the unemployment rate to rise and wages to fall.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What did future workers demand

A

They demanded shorter working hours with higher pay which caused strikes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Which working groups were a part of the strikes

A
  1. Shipyard workers
  2. Police
  3. coal miners
  4. steel workers
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

what were the demands of the working groups on strikes

A

One day off per week

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Who was to blame for the strikes

A

Russia and the Bolsheviks rising agains their government

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Strikers were compared to the Bolsheviks. what were they considered

A

anti-american

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

what is the red scare

A

A violent wave of anti-communist hysteria in the US from 1919-1920

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

what was the Bolshevik revolution consisted of what

A

Installed a communist gov in Russia.
Russia owned all private properties, industries, and factories.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

where did communism soon spread to

A

Bavaria and Hungary

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Who is Nicola Sacco

A

A shoemaker

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Who is Bartolomeo vanzetti?

A

A fish peddler

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What did Sacco and Vanzetti believe in?

A

Radicals who believed in Political reform

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Why were Sacco and Vanzetti accused

A

becuase of their political beliefs

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Who was A mitchell palmer

A

An attorney general who oversaw the palmer raids during the red scare.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

What happened to the people who were part of the palmer raids

A

over 600 got deported
- seized without warrants
- Denied attorneys
- deprived of food and water

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Why did the Palmer raids happen

A

they happened so that the gov could get rid of the immigrants and possible suspected communist.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Who was Warren G Harding

A

Republican president
- won 60% popular vote

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

What was Hardings Pro business plateform

A
  1. he promised lower taxes
  2. Higher tariffs (tax on imports)
  3. limits on immigration
    4.aid to farmers
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

What was harding for

A

1.Healing
2. Normalcy
3. Restoration

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

who became president after wilson

A

Warren G Harding

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

What was harding against

A
  1. the league of nations
  2. social wlefare programs
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

What did warren harding put together?

A

The poker cabinet

  • hired friends
    -corrupt systme
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

What is the teapot Dome affair

A

Albert fall takes government owned land (oil fields) and gives it to his friends to make profits for themselves.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

After harding dies who takes over

A

Vice president, Calvin Coolidge

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

what was calvin coolidge was against

A

social welfare programs

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

what did coolidge believe

A

The business of America is Business

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

What did coolidge do with our debt

A

reduce the national debt and spent low amounts

32
Q

who is president after Calvin coolidge

A

herbert Hoover

33
Q

What did herbert Hoover create

A

Bureau of Standards
stardizing manufacturing

34
Q

who was the Wonder boy

A

herbert hoover

35
Q

what was standarized

A
  1. nuts and bolts
  2. tires
  3. mattresses
  4. electrical fixtures
36
Q

what did Hoover support

A
  1. zoning regulations (to build certian things in certian palces)
  2. 8 hour work days
  3. improved nutrition for children
  4. conservation of natural resources
37
Q

industrial productivity went up by how much

A

70%

38
Q

extra credit GDP

A

Tuvalu GDP 64,000,000

39
Q

What were the 3 causes of industrial productivity

A
  1. Republican business policis
  2. New technology (electric motors)
  3. The Assembly line
40
Q

What were the effects of the causes of industrial productivity

A
  1. National economic growth
  2. companies need better offices/buildings
  3. growing urban population =new homes
  4. spreading pop.=new roads
41
Q

14 hours to build a modle t car cost how much

A

$850

42
Q

what resources boomed beucase of Ford’s mass production

A

steel, rubber, glass, petroleum, machine tools, and road building

43
Q

american standard living rose by…..
what does this create

A

11%
creates an improvment standard living

44
Q

new improvment consumer products included

A

refrigerators
packaged slice bread
toasters
vacuum cleaners
electric irons
washing machines

45
Q

What did people do on their leasure time

A

radios
photogrpahy
telephones
cars

46
Q

What was the 1920’s most biggest business

A

Automobiles
test question

47
Q

What did the automobiles affect in american culture

A
  1. Dating
  2. sunday outing
  3. vacations
  4. tourism
  5. shopping
48
Q

Prohibitation means to prohibit. What is being prohibited

A

Alcohol

49
Q

what did the 18th amendment say

A

Forbid the
manufacturing
sale
transportation
of alcohol

50
Q

what did we hope for by forbiding alcohol

A
  1. poverty
  2. violence
  3. crime
51
Q

what is the Volstead act

A

Declared that beverages with 1/2 of 1% alcohol was intoxicating

52
Q

what did the jazz age highlight

A

movies, sports, music

53
Q

who were the actors of the jazz age

A

mary Pickford - actor of the 1920’s
gloria swanson - fashion
rudolph Valentino - didnt make it out of 1920’s alive

54
Q

name their sport category
Babe Ruth-
oscar charleston -
jack Dempsey -
Helen Wills -
red grange -
bobby jones -

A

Babe Ruth- Baseball
oscar charleston - Baseball
jack Dempsey -Boxing
Helen Wills - Tennis
red grange - Football
bobby jones - Golf

55
Q

how did movies , sports, and music define american culture

A

helped transform taste and behaviors
1. dress style
2. hair style
it was a get away

56
Q

who was bessie smith

A

blues singer of that time

57
Q

who was Louise armstrong

A

jazz trumpet player

58
Q

Who was the Lone Eagle -1927

A

Charles Lindbergh, a piolet
first piolet to fly across the atlantic to paris.

59
Q

How long did it take for charles to fly

A

33 1/2 hours

60
Q

What were Blues

A

Work songs and field chants of enslaved African americans

61
Q

jazz created by who

A

African americans in new orleans. Notes were never written.

62
Q

Stock market speculation

A

taking financial risks hopes of making large profits

63
Q

stocks

A

shares in a business ownership

64
Q

buy low =

A

sell high

65
Q

what day did the stock market crash

A

black tuesday october 29, 1929

66
Q

note: banks paid …

A

7% per year on savings accounts

67
Q

whats margin

A

to buy a stock with only downpayment (10%), then borrow

68
Q

what did stock brokers do

A

Loan the other 90%

69
Q

Brokers actually borrowed money from where

A

Banks

70
Q

the Great Depression

A

A period of severley reduced economic activity coupled with high unempployment

71
Q

stock prices dropped and stock brokers couldt repay what

A

bank loans

72
Q

what were the cuases of the great depression

A
  1. stock market speculaiton
  2. depressed industry
    3.underconsumption
  3. Monetary ploicy
  4. Loss of Foreign trade
73
Q

Stock market speculation cuased the great dep bc

A

margin buying
gambling with short term investments

74
Q

Depressed industry cuased the great dep bc

A

farming
textiles
lumber
mining
railroads

75
Q

underconsumotion caused the great dep bc

A

wages were dropping
workers were laid off
people stopped buying stuff

76
Q

monetary caused the great dep bc

A

-did not insure saving accounts
-restricted credit
-low supply of money in circulation

77
Q

loss of foreign trade caused the great dep bc

A

-no more loans oveseas
-high tarrifs
-the continued poor us economy in 1930s kept foreign nations away.

US History (8 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions