Mr. Cook's Notes
APUSH 2010-2011
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| a movement back towards isolationism | ||
| Americans fear the communist party | ||
| a prominent priest of the time says that he would throw so many communists in jail their feet would be sticking out the window | ||
| The nation begins to suspect left wingers of this | ||
| provoked by the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries | ||
| These were denounced as a tool of the Soviets | ||
| • Advocated for fundamentalist religion, opposition to birth control, repression of pacifists, anti-Catholicism • Was a reaction to the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture • One of their many slogans, "Kill the Kikes, Koons, and Katholics" | ||
| Limits the number of immigrants | ||
| The act that directly discriminated against Southern and Eastern Europeans and Japanese | ||
| was the major obstacle to working class solidarity | ||
| faced opposition from the KKK due to the fact that nearly all of them were Roman Catholic | ||
| was strongly supported by church groups and women | ||
| Secret bars where alcohol could be purchased illegally | ||
| Illegally distilled liquor | ||
| earned rich profits from prostitution, gambling, labor racketeering and illegal drugs | ||
| Jewish Gangster who fixed the 1919 World Series | ||
| • Participated in dozens of illegal activities including murder but was sent to prison for income tax evasion • Responsible for Valentine's Day Massacre | ||
| 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism | ||
| defends Scopes in Monkey Trial | ||
| defends the opposing side in the Monkey Trial; claimed to be an "expert on the Bible"; died 5 days after the trial | ||
| Scopes is found guilty and forced to pay a fine of this amount | ||
| Oil barons pop up in OK, TX and CA | ||
| wrote "The Man Nobody Knows" It details that the best "adman" of all time is Jesus Christ | ||
| promotes industrial efficiency and scientific management | ||
| becomes America's past time | ||
| Baseball player who becomes a household name | ||
| Boxer who becomes a household name | ||
| sets out to fly from the New York to Paris for $25,000 The Spirit of St. Louis touches down in Paris 33 hours and 9 minutes after it took off | ||
| Wireless transmission invented by this Italian | ||
| become very popular along with sporting events, music and gospel channels | ||
| among others invent the motion picture camera | ||
| Movie that debuts at Nickelodeons in 1903 | ||
| First "Talkie" motion picture debuts in 1927 with Al Jolsen | ||
| develop Jazz, the first American music genre | ||
| founds the United Negro Improvement Association; he promoted the resettlement of American blacks in Africa, inspired strong feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance amongst blacks, sponsored black owned business enterprises and was convicted of mail fraud and deported by the US | ||
| symbolized this new movement amongst young women | ||
| becomes a prominent African American writer | ||
| Author of "The Great Gatsby," which encapsulated the Roaring 20's | ||
| who fought in Italy during WWI becomes an outspoken critic of war | ||
| is deemed the greatest American story teller begins to write | ||
| Leading cultural critic of the 1920's; attacked the South, Patriotism, Democracy and Puritanism | ||
| allowed people to buy stock on credit with a small down payment | ||
| Wild stories of elevator operators and valets making millions fueled the process of buying on margin | ||
| had no oversight of Wall Street | ||
| Secretary of Treasury who placed the heaviest tax burden on the middle class by eliminating nearly all of the taxes on the rich (excise tax, gift tax, surtax and estate tax) | ||
| The national debt reduced by this much although prosperity of the 1920's had more to do with the reduction than the lowering of taxes |
