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10645823341Treaty of VersaillesTreaty 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 League0
10645823342BolschevismCommunist sentiment, related to the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that overthrew the government1
10645823343First Red ScareFear that communism would spread to the United States in the 1920s.2
10645823344Many Americans feared that labor strikes were being instigated by communist sympathizers.What was the link between labor unions and the Red Scare?3
10645823345Wilson 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
10645823346A. Mitchell PalmerUS Attorney General who appointed J. Edgar Hoover to lead an investigation into radicalism in the United States.5
10645823347Palmer RaidsInvestigation 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 deported6
10645823348Sacco & VanzettiNicola 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 trial7
10645823349Emergency 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
10645823350Immigration Act of 1924Extended 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
10645823351Scopes 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
10645823352Butler ActTennessee 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
1064582335318th AmendmentOutlawed the sells, distribution , and consumption of alcoholic drink12
10645823354Felt 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 womenWhy was alcohol prohibited?13
10645823355Did 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 crimeWhat were the key problems of the 18th Amendment?14
10645823356What was the main idea behind Harding's campaign?A return to normalcy15
10645823357NativismAnti-immigration sentiment16
10645823358Feelings 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 anarchyWhat fueled nativism in the 1920s?17
10645823359Sedition Act of 1918Act that outlawed speech that opposed the US involvement in WWI and the US war effort18
10645823360"Reds"Communist sympathizers19
10645823361The 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
10645823362Increased 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 campaignsWhat helped the Ku Klux Klan gain in membership during the 1920s?21
10645823363Washington Naval Conference (1921)Meeting of nine nations in Washington DC to discuss disarming large naval powers. Resulted in the Five Power (5-5-3) Treaty22
10645823364Five Power TreatyTreaty agreed to in the Washington Naval Conference to limit naval forces to 500,000 tons for US & Great Britain and 300,000 tons for Japan23
10645823365Fordeny-McCumber TariffProposed to increase tariff on imported goods to 60% to protect American industry. Ultimately hurt the global economy because it hurt European trade24
10645823366Dawes PlanPlan 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 France25
10645823367Kellogg-Briand PactA Republican push to get nations to agree to not use war as an instrument of national policy. Signed by 61 nations, had no enforcement plan26
10645823368Teapot Dome ScandalHarding'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
10645823369What 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 Francisco28
10645823370How 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 introspective29
10645823371Henry FordIntroduced mass-production technique for automobiles, making them affordable30
10645823372Why was the Model T importantIt 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 car31
10645823373"Welfare Capitalism"Industrialists belief that by providing benefits and higher wages, they could stop the spread of labor unions32
10645823374What 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
10645823375What 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 roads34
10645823376What were the negative effects of the automobile?Decreased construction of public transportation, increased accidents, traffic congestion, air pollution35
10645823377ConsumerismRising demands for consumer goods, especially luxury items and appliances36
10645823378What 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
10645823379How 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
10645823380Harlem RenaissanceThe 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
10645823381The Great MigrationThe 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
1064582338219th AmendmentAmendment that gave women the right to vote41

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