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| 255336476 | Espionage and Sedition Acts | Prohibited any kind of negative language to be used against the US during a time of war, and didn't allow any kind of talk that was critical of the war. Anyone who went against this could be charged to up to 20 years of prison and/or $10,000 fine. | |
| 255336477 | Schenck vs. US | The supreme court ruled that in any time of "clear and present danger" the first amendment rights of an American citizen could be suspended. | |
| 255336478 | Warren G. Harding | republican president. "Return to Normalcy". President in the 1920s. created a middle-class society. People were encouraged to buy on credit. Success was based on material possessions. Harding was a womanizer, and died while on a cruise in California. His VP was Calvin Coolidge. | |
| 255336479 | Harding Administration | The MOST CORRUPT in American history. There were many many scandals. | |
| 255336480 | Calvin Coolidge | He didn't really do anything. Known as "Silent Cal". Warren G. Harding's VP, became president when Harding died. Very very cheap man. A tight wad. Served dinners at the white house on paper plates, and made the white house self sufficient (Turned the back yard into a chicken coop) | |
| 255336481 | Herbert Hoover | Became president. Was Coolidge's secretary of state. | |
| 255336482 | Xenophobia | Fear of foreign things. | |
| 255336483 | Butler Act | Prohibited the teaching of evolution in any TN school (public and private, and at any level). | |
| 255336484 | John Scopes | arrested for violating the Butler Act. He was in Dayton, TN. | |
| 255336485 | ACLU | American Civil Liberties Union. People who were concerned about the Butler Act and challenged it. They put together a team of attorneys to defend Scopes. | |
| 255336486 | Clarence Darrow | Defense Attorney for John Scopes. He was part of the ACLU. | |
| 255336487 | In the Trial of John Scopes, who was against Scopes? | William Jennings Bryan. He headed up the prosecution team. | |
| 255336488 | The trial of John Scopes was nicknamed what? | The Monkey Trial. | |
| 255336489 | What was so important about the Monkey Trial? | It crumbled the Fundamentalist movement. This had a catastrophic effect on William Jennings Bryan. This also had a profound effect on church attendance. Profound effect on how people viewed God Himself. | |
| 255336490 | Inherit the Wind | movie made about the Monkey Trial. (William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and John Scopes) | |
| 255336491 | A. Mitchell Palmer | Afraid of Bolsheviks, and lead major raids against 6,000 people suspected to be Bolsheviks. 566 of them were deported without a trial and they lost everything. Out of the 6,000 people they searched, they only found 3 firearms. | |
| 255336492 | American Plan | This plan was anti-union, and afraid of workers. "Collective bargaining and the union shop were unAmerican and they represented a Bolshevik threat." Collective bargaining-strength in numbers; union shop-being part of a union, you have to be part of that particular field (teachers in teaching union, nurses in the nursing union). | |
| 255336493 | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti | They were arrested for the murder of a guard at a hold up. Their trial had no evidence, yet they were found guilty and were executed. This happened, because they had radical "unamerican" political ideas. | |
| 255336494 | Vigilantism | Mob Justice. This happened across the nation! (1920s) | |
| 255336495 | Birthplace of the KKK | Pulaski, TN | |
| 255336496 | Movie that Started the KKK back up in 1915 and who did it? | "The Birth of a Nation" by D.W. Griffith | |
| 255336497 | Original Reason for the KKK | To maintain white power in the South. | |
| 255336498 | Hiram Evans | Leader of the KKK, he was a dentist. Said that people of the KKK were average americans. Plain people. Said the Klan represented the Bible and God. | |
| 255336499 | DC Stephenson | Influential member of the Republican Part in the Midwest, and an influential member of the KKK. | |
| 255336500 | Because of D.C. Stephenson, how did people begin to view the KKK? | They started to see that the KKK was brutal and hypocritical. | |
| 255336501 | National Origin Act and the Immigrant Restriction Act | They both established a quota of how many people to allow into the US. This was motivated by fear initially. It said that we were to no longer have an open-door policy. | |
| 255336502 | The Lost Generation | Writers affected by the war. They were all young americans affected by the war. | |
| 255336503 | John Dos Passos. | "Big Money". He talked about what America became in the 1920s. | |
| 255336504 | Ezra Pound | "Personae". Talked about veterans coming home from war. "Eye deep in hell...believing old man's lies.." Bought into a lie of what fighting in a war was all about. | |
| 255336505 | Ernest Hemingway | Volunteered for the Salvation Army overseas. God injured in battle, and took a while to recover. He decided to become a writer, and stayed in Paris to write. Was really influenced by Gertrude Stein. | |
| 255336506 | Gertrude Stein | Named the Lost Generation. Housed Ernest Hemingway for a time, and helped him with his writing. | |
| 255336507 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Wrote the "Great Gatsby".It's about a desperate attempt to live a rich lifestyle. Kind of reflected his life and his wife, Zelda's, life together. | |
| 255336508 | Zelda Fitzgerald | put in an insane asylum after a while of being married to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and writes "Save for me the waltz" | |
| 255336509 | Sinclair Lewis | "Main Street". Unapologetic writing about the unsparing, unapologetic ugliness of life in an american small town. | |
| 255336510 | HLM Menken | Wrote "The American Mercury" (a kind of magazine that he wrote essays in, and he was very cynical and sarcastic). He made fun of everything and everyone. "Boobs, peasants, and yokels." | |
| 255336511 | Thomas Edison in 1896 | He made the Kinetiscope. This introduced motion pictures. | |
| 255336512 | "The Great Train Robbery" | this movie was made in 1903. It was the first movie with an identifiable storyline. It proved that you can do more with kinetiscope than just move images, you can tell a story! | |
| 255336513 | Old Hollywood Stars (Silent Movies) | Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Rudolph Valentino (Heartthrob), Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow. | |
| 255336514 | Cevil B. del Mille | made silent films | |
| 255336515 | Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow did what for the image of the modern american woman? | They redefined what it meant. These woman played independent women, wore revealing clothing, played flirtatious characters. Preoccupation with sexuality. | |
| 255336516 | Harold Lloyd | Stuntman kind of character. Master of doing his own stunts, and a popular comedian in the silent era. | |
| 255336517 | Buster Keaton | Always played the victim of society | |
| 255336518 | Charlie Chaplain | always played the sad cases, and by the end of the film, he is victorious! | |
| 255336519 | Keystone Kop | Fatty Arbuckle was in this group of comedians. | |
| 255336520 | Fatty Arbuckle | Gifted comedian, went solo from the Keystone Kops. He was incredibly promiscuous. Slept with a lot of women, and used sex to get them a part (AKA the Casting Couch). He had a major scandal with Virginia Rappe. Aquitted of all charges, but American public was so angry that he couldn't come back even with a new name (Will B. Good). | |
| 255336521 | Virginia Rappe | Fatty Arbuckle fell into lust with this woman. Used the offer of the Casting Couch with her, and he turned him down over and over again until she gave in. She died after having sex with Arbuckle. | |
| 255336522 | Robert Penn Warren | Wrote All the King's Men (about corrupt politics) | |
| 255336523 | First science fiction film | "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang | |
| 255336524 | First science fiction film creator | Fritz Lang in Germany. | |
| 255336525 | "Metropolis" | First science fiction film. It told of what was going to happen to society in 2010. | |
| 255336526 | First movie with Sound | "The Jazz Singer" by Al Jolson. | |
| 255336527 | First Commercial Broadcasting Station | KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA. | |
| 255336528 | Who founded the first network broadcasting company? | RCA. and the first broadcasting company was NBC. | |
| 255336529 | Westinghouse Manufacturing and Electric Company | Accidently did an experiment to broadcast musical programs. This caused them to begin to schedule music programs and eventually a news program. A spark to start the radio industry. | |
| 255336530 | Thomas Edison and radio | Introduced the Phonograph. | |
| 255336531 | The Phonograph | It brought music home. Americans introduced Rock and Roll, Jazz, Blues, Bluegrass, etc. | |
| 255336532 | First popular music | Ragtime (Scott Joplin) | |
| 255336533 | Al Smith | Democrat representative for the election of 1928. The radio cost him the election because it made him seem racist against catholics. (He thought alcohol was evil). | |
| 255336534 | The Dust Bowl was caused by what? | Irresponsible farming in the Deep Southwest. | |
| 255336535 | What movie/Book was influenced by the occurrence of the Dust Bowl? | Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | |
| 255336536 | Who wrote the Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck. | |
| 255336537 | Hoover did what when confronted with the economy problem? | He maintained the goal standard and balanced the budget. He believed in Volunteerism. He doesn't want government to get involved at all. He believed that the rich would help the poor. | |
| 255336538 | Volunteerism | The rich will help the poor. THe more fortunate will help the less fortunate. This doesn't work! | |
| 255336539 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | To help the farmers. It was a tariff on those goods that were agricultural and from other countries. This tariff raised the prices on 75 agricultural goods, and raised it on 925 industrial products. | |
| 255336540 | What was catastrophic about the Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Other countries closed their markets from us because we raised the tariff, and because of this, we no longer had access to foreign marketing. This is not helping our economy! | |
| 255336541 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | "Trickle down" ideal. It doesn't help the homeless and jobless. | |
| 255336542 | Hoover and tax structures | He doesn't do hardly anything with this. He allowed the tax structure to continue favoring the wealthy. | |
| 255336543 | Bonus Bill | Would have given out payments to veterans of WWI that were to be given to them later. This was not passed. | |
| 255336544 | John Nance Garner | Was being thought about nominating for the Democratic party for the election against Hoover. | |
| 255336545 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Governor of NY State. Nominated for the Democratic party in the election against Hoover. | |
| 255336546 | FDR and the New Deal | FDR presented a new deal to fix the depression. "NOthing to fear but fear itself." | |
| 255336547 | FDR and things he brought about that we still have today | Social Security, FDIC, etc. | |
| 255336548 | FDR beliefs about his role as president | He did not believe in volunteerism. He believed in taking initiative to help the people. | |
| 255336549 | Emergency Banking Act | Closed american banks for four days, and FDR did this so that he could weed out the good banks from the bad ones. | |
| 255336550 | Fireside Chats with FDR | People felt like FDR was very personal with Americans. | |
| 255336551 | Federal Emergency Relief Administration | FDR. Make federal money available to the states to send money to people who truly need help. chose Harry Hopkins to head this. | |
| 255336552 | Harry Hopkins | head of Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Also over the WPA (Works Progress Administration) | |
| 255336553 | WPA (Works Progress Administration) | Unemployed artists were paid to make maps, and FDR went around everywhere and collected music and lyrics from this time. Journalists were used to interview former slaves (which caused this part of African American history to be kept in tact) | |
| 255336554 | Public Works Admin | This was headed by Harold Ickes. They did a lot of the same projects as the WPA, and they built roads and govt. offices, sewer systems, sanitation systems, auditoriums, and two aircraft carries (Yorktown and the Enterprise) | |
| 255336555 | Harold Ickes | Head of Public WOrks Administration. | |
| 255336556 | Tennessee Valley Authority | TVA. This was supposed to be permanent. | |
| 255336557 | Eleanor Roosevelt | Humanitarian. Helping those who were less fortunate. Very involved in woman's issues. | |
| 255336558 | Frances Perkins | First woman to be appointed into cabinet position. She was the Secretary of Labor. WOuldn't take the job until there was a Social Security Act in place, and FDR did just that. | |
| 255336559 | Frances Townsend | He didn't think that FDR was doing enought to help the states. He wanted the govt. to provide a cash payment every month for every elderly american. Elderly americans LOVED him. | |
| 255336560 | Huey Long (was assassinated) | Politician with an idea called "Share our Wealth". He wanted federal govt. to provide every american family with a house, car, and $2500 per year. People wanted socialism instead of capitalism. He also believed in taxing every millionaire 100% | |
| 255336561 | Charles Coughlin | Priest. Regularly criticized FDR. Wanted Nationalization of Industry. He blamed hte Depression on Jews, Bankers, and big Businessman. He founded the Christian Front. He held rallies to raise money for Adolf Hitler. This was all in the year that WWII broke out. EXACTLY like Hitler. Facist. | |
| 255336562 | Alphabet Agencies | CWA (Civil Works Admin), CCC (Civilian Conservation Corporation, AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Admin), NRA (National Recovery Admin), TVA, WPA (Works Progress Admin), PWA (Public Works Admin). | |
| 255336563 | Benito Mussolini | Elected into power in Italy. Was part of the Fascisti Party (Fascism - totalitarianism). He believed in dictatorship, and capitalism to enhance the state. | |
| 255336564 | Reasons for why Italy elected Mussolini | They lost hope in their govt. They thought that Mussolini could help them. They wanted to restore order and economy. | |
| 255336565 | The Touch-off of war between Japan and China was caused by... | Japan invading Manchuria and Northern China because they believed that they needed more room. | |
| 255336566 | National Socialism Party | NAZI PARTY. Led by Adolf Hitler. | |
| 255336567 | Anti-Semitism | Anti-Jew. Hitler was definitely this! | |
| 255336568 | Joseph Stalin | Soviet Union. Polar opposite from Hitler. Tried to put together an alliance with France and Britain, and it failed. He felt alone. | |
| 255336569 | Munich conference | With Hitler, Eduard Deladier (France), and Neville Chamberlain (Britain) | |
| 255336570 | Walter Millius | He published a book called "Road to War: America 1914-1917". He stated that Wilson went into war for profit instead of democracy. | |
| 255336571 | Gerald Nye | Republican Senator. Nye Committee issued a report that greed that what Millius said was true. He almost became a Pacifist. | |
| 255336572 | American Student Union | Held rallies with signs that said "Books not Battleships" and have strikes in support of peace where they wouldn't go to class at all. | |
| 255336573 | Pacifism | opposition to war and violence. | |
| 255336574 | Theodore Morrell | Hitler's Physician. Had Hitler take an injection of Bull Testosterone every day. | |
| 255336575 | Jessie Owens | In the Olympics, he got 4 gold metals and 3 world records. From US. | |
| 255336576 | Joe Lewis vs. Max Schmelling | Boxing match of good vs. evil. Hitler was trying to prove the superiority of the Aryan Race. He failed. | |
| 255336577 | Axis Pact | Germany and Italy Become allies. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. In Munich. | |
| 255336578 | Anschluss | Getting Austria into Germany because they spoke German. | |
| 255336579 | Sudetenland | Part of Czechoslovakia that Hitler wanted to be part of Germany because they spoke German. | |
| 255336580 | Rhineland | Part of land between france and Germany that Hitler wanted because they spoke German. |
