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Ch 31 American Life in the Roaring 20's Flashcards

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609676060"Red Scare"fear of communism
609676061Fear was fueled byThe Russian Revolution, Strikes, Mail Bombs, and Eugene Deb's growing numbers
609676062Communismstarted in Europe, led to Americans disliking foreigners
609676063Attorney Gen. Mitchell Palmercaught and arrested 6,000 "reds" and deported some but slowed down after a bomb blew up his house
609676064State passed laws- outlawing violence, for social change - some elected officials weren't allowed into the legislature because they were socialists
609676065CommunistGov. controls everything, salary is the same for all
609676066Socialistsbelief in the community controlling everything
609676067Faces of the Red ScareNicola Sacco, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti: italian immigrants accused of murder, given an unjust trial because they are immigrants and executed
614878114KKK RevivedIsolationism: hatred of foreigners led to 5 mill members of the KKK
614878115Emergency Quota Act1921 cut the amount of immigrants to 3%
614878116Immigration ActCut 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
614878117Horace Kallenethnic groups should keep their own traditions
614878118Randolph Bournegroups should mix traditions
614878119Volstead Act1919 18th Amendment passed prohibition
614878120Gangsterismstarted with the selling of alcohol "bootlegging"
614878121Scarface Al CaponeChicago's most notorious gangster
614878122Charles Lindbergh'sbabies kidnapping resulted in the Lindbergh Laws
614878123Lindbergh Lawsinterstate kidnapping is punishable by death
614878124John Deweylearn by doing in school
614878125Scopes Monkey TrialJohn T. Scopes breaks the law of TN in Dayton and teaches evolution in school. Scope is given a slap on the wrist
614878126Fundamentalistsbelievers of literal reading in the bible
614878127Will Jennings Bryanlawyer for creation
614878128Clarence Darrowargued Evolution
614878129Andrew MellonsSec of Treasury's low tax policies help economy grow, gave rich a tax break helping to lower national debt
614878130Henry Fordmass productions leads to mass consumption, cars for all due to low price
614878131Bruce Bartonad-master took after Jesus who was the best
614878132Dangerous buying techniquesInstallment Plan and Credit
614878133SportsBaseball: Babe Ruth Boxing: Jake Dempsey Horse Racing
614878134Frederick Taylorfurther developed the gas engine, and helped workers become efficient by eliminating waste of time movements
614878135Automobile Industry ownersHenry Ford and Ransom E. Olds
614878136Cars brought changes to Am.roads, sewers, accidents, gasoline industry, independence for young ppl "baby boomers", suburbs
614878137Orville and Wilbur Wright12 Second flight in Kitty Hawk NC in 1903
614878138Planes during WW1spying, bombing, fighting, mail
614878139Charles Lindberghfirst to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 took 33.5 hrs won $25,000, instant celeb
614878140First Transcontinental Airmail Routefrom NY to San Fran
614878141Guglielmo Marcroniinvented Voice Radio, KDKA in Pittsburg, brought US together
614878142Powel Crosleynational radio show
614878143Thomas Edison"picture show" movies, "The Great Train Robbery"
614878144D.W. Griffithcreated the 1st full length movie "The Birth of A Nation" about the Civil War, Hollywood Movie headquarters due to nice weather
614878145Margaret Sangerpromoted womens birth control
614878146National Women's Party1923 ambition for Equal Rights Amendment
614878147Moderniststhought God was old and tradition
614878148"Jazz Age"black influence, take jobs, music, dancing, flappers, cars, alcohol, smoking
614878149Sigmund Freudtheories on how sex and violence are healthy physically and emotionally
614878150Langston Hughesvoice of the blacks in Am
614878151Marcus Garve3yest Nego Improvement ASs. to re-locate blacks to Africa
614878152H.L. Menckenjabbed at society in his magazine "American Monthly"
614878153F. Scott Fitzgeraldspokesmen for the Jazz Age in the Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise
614878154Ted Dreiserrealist writing "An American Tradegy"
614878155Ernest Hemingway"The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell To Arms" WW1
614878156Sherwood Anderson"Winesburg" small-towns
614878157Sinclair Lewissmall-town America "Babbit"
614878158Will Faulknersouthern life "As I lay dying" "the sound and the fury"
614878159Ezra Pound and T.S. Elliotpoets wrote "The Waste land "
614878160Robert Frostpoet "the road not talken"
614878161Eugene O'Neillfamous play write
614878162Harlem Renaissanceblack people in art and music
614878163Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Nealeblack writers
614878164Louis Armstrong, Euble BlakeJazz musicians
614878165Frank Lloyd Wrightarchitect of the empire state building
614878166Bureau of the Budgetfed. gov. tried to pass to get money in order

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