609676060 | "Red Scare" | fear of communism | |
609676061 | Fear was fueled by | The Russian Revolution, Strikes, Mail Bombs, and Eugene Deb's growing numbers | |
609676062 | Communism | started in Europe, led to Americans disliking foreigners | |
609676063 | Attorney Gen. Mitchell Palmer | caught and arrested 6,000 "reds" and deported some but slowed down after a bomb blew up his house | |
609676064 | State passed laws | - outlawing violence, for social change - some elected officials weren't allowed into the legislature because they were socialists | |
609676065 | Communist | Gov. controls everything, salary is the same for all | |
609676066 | Socialists | belief in the community controlling everything | |
609676067 | Faces of the Red Scare | Nicola Sacco, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti: italian immigrants accused of murder, given an unjust trial because they are immigrants and executed | |
614878114 | KKK Revived | Isolationism: hatred of foreigners led to 5 mill members of the KKK | |
614878115 | Emergency Quota Act | 1921 cut the amount of immigrants to 3% | |
614878116 | Immigration Act | Cut amount of immigrants to 2% first restriction of immigration, closed the door to Japanese but left Latin Americans and Canadians open so they could do jobs | |
614878117 | Horace Kallen | ethnic groups should keep their own traditions | |
614878118 | Randolph Bourne | groups should mix traditions | |
614878119 | Volstead Act | 1919 18th Amendment passed prohibition | |
614878120 | Gangsterism | started with the selling of alcohol "bootlegging" | |
614878121 | Scarface Al Capone | Chicago's most notorious gangster | |
614878122 | Charles Lindbergh's | babies kidnapping resulted in the Lindbergh Laws | |
614878123 | Lindbergh Laws | interstate kidnapping is punishable by death | |
614878124 | John Dewey | learn by doing in school | |
614878125 | Scopes Monkey Trial | John T. Scopes breaks the law of TN in Dayton and teaches evolution in school. Scope is given a slap on the wrist | |
614878126 | Fundamentalists | believers of literal reading in the bible | |
614878127 | Will Jennings Bryan | lawyer for creation | |
614878128 | Clarence Darrow | argued Evolution | |
614878129 | Andrew Mellons | Sec of Treasury's low tax policies help economy grow, gave rich a tax break helping to lower national debt | |
614878130 | Henry Ford | mass productions leads to mass consumption, cars for all due to low price | |
614878131 | Bruce Barton | ad-master took after Jesus who was the best | |
614878132 | Dangerous buying techniques | Installment Plan and Credit | |
614878133 | Sports | Baseball: Babe Ruth Boxing: Jake Dempsey Horse Racing | |
614878134 | Frederick Taylor | further developed the gas engine, and helped workers become efficient by eliminating waste of time movements | |
614878135 | Automobile Industry owners | Henry Ford and Ransom E. Olds | |
614878136 | Cars brought changes to Am. | roads, sewers, accidents, gasoline industry, independence for young ppl "baby boomers", suburbs | |
614878137 | Orville and Wilbur Wright | 12 Second flight in Kitty Hawk NC in 1903 | |
614878138 | Planes during WW1 | spying, bombing, fighting, mail | |
614878139 | Charles Lindbergh | first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 took 33.5 hrs won $25,000, instant celeb | |
614878140 | First Transcontinental Airmail Route | from NY to San Fran | |
614878141 | Guglielmo Marcroni | invented Voice Radio, KDKA in Pittsburg, brought US together | |
614878142 | Powel Crosley | national radio show | |
614878143 | Thomas Edison | "picture show" movies, "The Great Train Robbery" | |
614878144 | D.W. Griffith | created the 1st full length movie "The Birth of A Nation" about the Civil War, Hollywood Movie headquarters due to nice weather | |
614878145 | Margaret Sanger | promoted womens birth control | |
614878146 | National Women's Party | 1923 ambition for Equal Rights Amendment | |
614878147 | Modernists | thought God was old and tradition | |
614878148 | "Jazz Age" | black influence, take jobs, music, dancing, flappers, cars, alcohol, smoking | |
614878149 | Sigmund Freud | theories on how sex and violence are healthy physically and emotionally | |
614878150 | Langston Hughes | voice of the blacks in Am | |
614878151 | Marcus Garve3y | est Nego Improvement ASs. to re-locate blacks to Africa | |
614878152 | H.L. Mencken | jabbed at society in his magazine "American Monthly" | |
614878153 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | spokesmen for the Jazz Age in the Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise | |
614878154 | Ted Dreiser | realist writing "An American Tradegy" | |
614878155 | Ernest Hemingway | "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell To Arms" WW1 | |
614878156 | Sherwood Anderson | "Winesburg" small-towns | |
614878157 | Sinclair Lewis | small-town America "Babbit" | |
614878158 | Will Faulkner | southern life "As I lay dying" "the sound and the fury" | |
614878159 | Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliot | poets wrote "The Waste land " | |
614878160 | Robert Frost | poet "the road not talken" | |
614878161 | Eugene O'Neill | famous play write | |
614878162 | Harlem Renaissance | black people in art and music | |
614878163 | Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale | black writers | |
614878164 | Louis Armstrong, Euble Blake | Jazz musicians | |
614878165 | Frank Lloyd Wright | architect of the empire state building | |
614878166 | Bureau of the Budget | fed. gov. tried to pass to get money in order |
Ch 31 American Life in the Roaring 20's Flashcards
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