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| 5882134469 | Treaty of Versailles | Treaty created during the Paris Peace Conference that demanded Germany pay for the war and create the League of Nations, US Senate rejected treaty & US involvment in the League | 0 | |
| 5882134470 | Bolschevism | Communist sentiment, related to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that overthrew the government | 1 | |
| 5882134471 | First Red Scare | Fear that communism would spread to the United States in the 1920s. | 2 | |
| 5882134472 | Many Americans feared that labor strikes were being instigated by communist sympathizers. | What was the link between labor unions and the Red Scare? | 3 | |
| 5882134473 | Wilson had angered many by spending six months at the Paris Peace Conference, many felt that democrats' policies had pulled us into a war that was not our fight, desired a return to isolationism. | What factors led to the political shift from Democrat to Republican during the election of 1920? | 4 | |
| 5882134474 | A. Mitchell Palmer | US Attorney General who appointed J. Edgar Hoover to lead an investigation into radicalism in the United States. | 5 | |
| 5882134475 | Palmer Raids | Investigation led by J. Edgar Hoover of more than 150,000 people for ties to communism, anarchism, and radicalism. More than 10,000 detained and/or deported | 6 | |
| 5882134476 | Sacco & Vanzetti | Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti charged with killing two in suburb of Boston, accused of being radicals, draft dodgers, and anarchists during the trial. Found guilty, but many felt trial was unjust. Resulted in wide-spread public and international outcry, but they were ultimately electrocuted despite demands for new trial | 7 | |
| 5882134477 | Emergency Quota Act (1921) | Ended open immigration by placing a strict quota on the number of people allowed into the United States (only 3% of the population) | 8 | |
| 5882134478 | Immigration Act of 1924 | Extended the Emergency Quota Act and further cut allowable immigration from 3% to 2% of US population based on the 1890 Census, Asians banned completely, aimed primarily at Eastern Europeans, Latin Americans and Canadians not banned at all. | 9 | |
| 5882134479 | Scopes Money Trial (1925) (Scopes v. Tennessee) | Tennessee bans the teaching of evolution, TN high school biology teachers, John Scopes, indicted for teaching evolution. Noted lawyer, Clarence Darrow, defends Scopes and William Jennings Bryan was the lawyer for the prosecution. Seen as putting religion versus science on trial. Huge public interest in the trial. Scopes found guilty. | 10 | |
| 5882134480 | Butler Act | Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of any scientific theory that contradicted the divine creation of man as is taught in the Bible. Led to the Scopes Monkey Trial ( | 11 | |
| 5882134481 | 18th Amendment | Outlawed the sells, distribution , and consumption of alcoholic drink | 12 | |
| 5882134482 | Felt it led to violence against women and children, encouraged laziness, and led to the moral decay of society. Prohibition was supported by religious conservatives and women | Why was alcohol prohibited? | 13 | |
| 5882134483 | Did not have wide-spread public support, Led to increase in crime, alcohol was easily manufactured at home, huge profits could be made from bootlegging, many local governments and police refused to enforce it, led to organized crime | What were the key problems of the 18th Amendment? | 14 | |
| 5882134484 | What was the main idea behind Harding's campaign? | A return to normalcy | 15 | |
| 5882134485 | Nativism | Anti-immigration sentiment | 16 | |
| 5882134486 | Feelings that immigration help pull US into WWI, post-war economic recession, fear that immigrants were taking American jobs, dissatisfaction of returning war vets, fear of the rise of communism and anarchy | What fueled nativism in the 1920s? | 17 | |
| 5882134487 | Sedition Act of 1918 | Act that outlawed speech that opposed the US involvement in WWI and the US war effort | 18 | |
| 5882134488 | "Reds" | Communist sympathizers | 19 | |
| 5882134489 | The Klan of the 1920's focused on "Americanism" and opposed Catholics, Jews, immigrants, labor unions, socialist, as well as African Americans. | What was "new" about the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s? | 20 | |
| 5882134490 | Increased nativist sentiment, fear of the spread of communism and anarchy, the political and economic unrest of 1919, their support for prohibition, and leadership could profit by selling Klan regalia to new members resulting in wide-spread active recruitment campaigns | What helped the Ku Klux Klan gain in membership during the 1920s? | 21 | |
| 5882134491 | Washington Naval Conference (1921) | Meeting of nine nations in Washington DC to discuss disarming large naval powers. Resulted in the Five Power (5-5-3) Treaty | 22 | |
| 5882134492 | Five Power Treaty | Treaty agreed to in the Washington Naval Conference to limit naval forces to 500,000 tons for US & Great Britain and 300,000 tons for Japan | 23 | |
| 5882134493 | Fordeny-McCumber Tariff | Proposed to increase tariff on imported goods to 60% to protect American industry. Ultimately hurt the global economy because it hurt European trade | 24 | |
| 5882134494 | Dawes Plan | Plan to allow Germany to take out low-cost loans from several nations, including the US, in order to pay back war reparations. Angered Great Britain and France | 25 | |
| 5882134495 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | A Republican push to get nations to agree to not use war as an instrument of national policy. Signed by 61 nations, had no enforcement plan | 26 | |
| 5882134496 | Teapot Dome Scandal | Harding's Sec of the Interior, Albert Fall, illegally leased two naval oil reserves (Teapot Dome, WY and Elk Grove, CA), then sold the reserves to oilman Harry Sinclair pocketing the money for himself. Senate investigated, found Fall and Sinclair guilty of wrongdoing. Fall and Sinclair sentenced to prison. | 27 | |
| 5882134497 | What happens to Warren G. Harding? | Harding suffers bout of influenza in 1923 after a trip to Alaska leaving him weakened. Dies of a heart attack August 1923 in San Francisco | 28 | |
| 5882134498 | How was Coolidge as a President? | Supported pro-business and industry policies, continued high tariffs to protect American industry, wanted to give businesses tax credits to spur growth (similar to Reagan's "Trickle-Down" Theory, tended to be quiet and introspective | 29 | |
| 5882134499 | Henry Ford | Introduced mass-production technique for automobiles, making them affordable | 30 | |
| 5882134500 | Why was the Model T important | It was able to be mass produced and affordable car. By 1925, producing more than 9000 cars per day, cost for a Model T was $300. Marketed that every man could own a car | 31 | |
| 5882134501 | "Welfare Capitalism" | Industrialists belief that by providing benefits and higher wages, they could stop the spread of labor unions | 32 | |
| 5882134502 | What was the impact of "Welfare Capitalism" | People were earning higher wages, had a reduced work day, and better working conditions, decreased absenteeism and employee turnover, decreased the influence of labor unions. | 33 | |
| 5882134503 | What were the positive effects of the automobile? | Created jobs, fostered tourism industry, gave people a sense of freedom, allowed people in rural areas to connect, helped create suburbs, encouraged pavement of roads | 34 | |
| 5882134504 | What were the negative effects of the automobile? | Decreased construction of public transportation, increased accidents, traffic congestion, air pollution | 35 | |
| 5882134505 | Consumerism | Rising demands for consumer goods, especially luxury items and appliances | 36 | |
| 5882134506 | What were the causes of consumerism? | Increase wages, mass production of goods, relatively low cost of living, increasing access to electricity, people could buy on credit (installment payments) | 37 | |
| 5882134507 | How does advertising change in the 1920s? | Technology enables wide-spread color print ads. Advertising became a BIG business. Companies sponsored radio programs and advertisements (Soap Operas Serials) | 38 | |
| 5882134508 | Harlem Renaissance | The name given to the cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. | 39 | |
| 5882134509 | The Great Migration | The movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. | 40 | |
| 5882134510 | 19th Amendment | Amendment that gave women the right to vote | 41 |
