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| 1287455746 | Bolshevik Revolution (1917) | i. Due to the massive Russian casualties in WWI (1 million by 1917), there is increased economic hardship in Russia, persistent starvation, and increased riots unrest as citizens are fed up with the war and the Russian governmen | 0 | |
| 1287455747 | Seattle General Strike (1919) | 35,000 shipyard workers walked off the job demanding higher wages and shorter hours.In the end, the workers returned to work but without any gains. | 1 | |
| 1287455748 | "Red Scare" (1919-1920) | Fear of Russia ran high even after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, which spawned a communist party in America. Resulted in a nationwide crusade against those whose Americanism was questionable. | 2 | |
| 1287455749 | A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare; he was nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker" until a bomb destroyed his home; he then had a nervous breakdown and became known as the "Quaking Fighter." | 3 | |
| 1287455750 | Sacco and Vanzetti (1921) | Convicted in 1921 of murder of a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard. The judge and jury were prejudiced because they were Italians, atheists, anarchists, and draft dodgers. They were executed after 6 years in 1927. | 4 | |
| 1287455751 | Ku Klux Klan | A group formed for the purpose of discriminating Blacks, but changed into dicrimination against immigrants and minorities of any kind. After the end of WWI the membership increased greatly | 5 | |
| 1287455752 | "New Immigration" | The second major wave of immigration to the U.S.; betwen 1865-1910, 25 million new immigrants arrived. Unlike earlier immigration, which had come primarily from Western and Northern Europe, the New Immigrants came mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe, fleeing persecution and poverty. Language barriers and cultural differences produced mistrust by Americans. | 6 | |
| 1287455753 | 1921 Emergency Quota Act | An act designed to restrict the flow of immigrants into the U.S. A nation would have to fulfill a quota in order to continue sending immigrants. The requirement for a nationality was to have 3% of its total population living in the U.S. during the 1910 census. This was favorable for Southern and Eastern Europe who many immigrants had already moved to the U.S. by 1910. | 7 | |
| 1287455754 | 1924 Immigration Act | A United States federal law that limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, according to the Census of 1890, and banned immigration of Asians. The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans who were immigrating in large numbers starting in the 1890s, as well as prohibiting the immigration of East Asians and Asian Indians. These efforts were due in part to keep America a Protestant country. | 8 | |
| 1287455755 | Eighteenth Amendment (1919) | Prohibited the manufacturing, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages. Repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment. | 9 | |
| 1287455756 | Volstead Act | Bill passed by Congress to enforce the language of the 18th Amendment. This bill made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal within the borders of the United States. | 10 | |
| 1287455757 | "Speakeasies" | Secret bars where alcohol could be purchased illegally | 11 | |
| 1287455758 | Al Capone | A mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits. His illegal activities convey the failure of prohibition in the twenties and the problems with gangs. | 12 | |
| 1287455759 | Prof. John Dewey | Significantly contributed to the educational theory by his principle of "learning by doing" which eventually led to the formation of progressive education. He believed that teachers should prepare students for life. | 13 | |
| 1287455760 | Religious fundamentalists | Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to influence state policy. | 14 | |
| 1287455761 | John Scopes/"monkey trial" (1925) | Tennessee passed the nation's first law that made it a crime to teach evolution. He challenged the law by teaching evolution in biology. Arrested and sent to jail. trial over role of science and religion in public schools and in American society. | 15 | |
| 1287455762 | William Jennings Bryan | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) Also the loser of 3 elections | 16 | |
| 1287455763 | Clarence Darrow | A famed criminal defense lawyer for Scopes, who supported evolution. He caused William Jennings Bryan to appear foolish when Darrow questioned Bryan about the Bible. | 17 | |
| 1287455764 | Bruce Barton | Advertiser: Wrote "The Man Nobody Knows." It was about Jesus, who he said was the best advertiser. | 18 | |
| 1287455765 | Babe Ruth | Very famed Baseball player during the roaring 20's | 19 | |
| 1287455766 | Jack Dempsey | Very famed boxer in the roaring 20's | 20 | |
| 1287455767 | Frederick W. Taylor | An engineer, an inventor, and a tennis player. He sought to eliminate wasted motion. Famous for scientific-management especially time-management studies. | 21 | |
| 1287455768 | Henry Ford | 1863-1947. American businessman, founder of Ford Motor Company, father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents. | 22 | |
| 1287455769 | Model "T" ("Tin Lizzie") | The first automobile mass produced on assembly lines with completely interchangeable parts to the middle class. It helped automobiles come into popular usage because of its cheap cost and its large quantity | 23 | |
| 1287455770 | Wright Brothers (1903) | Wilbur and Orville Wright; inventors of the airplane which greatly improved transportation and closed isolation | 24 | |
| 1287455771 | Charles A. Lindbergh (1927) | Made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1927. "The Lone Eagle." Time Magazine's first Man of the Year. | 25 | |
| 1287455772 | Guglielmo Marconi | Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio (1874-1937) | 26 | |
| 1287455773 | Amos 'n' Andy | One of the first comedy shows on the radio. Shows like this helped bring families and neighbors together. It brought the nation together as well by overcoming cultural differences. | 27 | |
| 1287455774 | Thomas A. Edison | One of the most prolific inventors in U.S. history. He invented the phonograph, light bulb, electric battery, mimeograph and moving picture. | 28 | |
| 1287455775 | D. W. Griffith/Birth of a Nation | One of the first full length films It glorified the Ku Klux Klan and denounced blacks and white northerners | 29 | |
| 1287455776 | Al Jolson/The Jazz Singer (1927) | United States singer (born in Russia) who appeared in the first full-length talking film (1886-1950), The Jazz Singer | 30 | |
| 1287455777 | Margaret Sanger | American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. As a nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. | 31 | |
| 1287455778 | "Flappers" | women who abandoned dress and conduct codes of the past; these rebellious girls became the symbol of the Roaring Twenties; shocked their elders with short skits, slang, new dances, heavy makeup, and drinking or smoking in public | 32 | |
| 1287455779 | Dr. Sigmund Freud | Viennese physician ;; believed that sexual repression was responsible for society's ills & that pleasure & health needed sexual gratification & liberation | 33 | |
| 1287455780 | Jazz | A style of dance music popular in the 1920s | 34 | |
| 1287455781 | Langston Hughes | A leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "My People" and "the weary blues" | 35 | |
| 1287455782 | Marcus Garvey | African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. | 36 | |
| 1287455783 | H. L. Menken | the author of the monthly magazine American Mercury. He attacked many controversial issues such as marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition | 37 | |
| 1287455784 | F. Scott Fitzgerald | He belonged to the Lost Generation of Writers. He wrote the famous novel "The Great Gatsby" and "This Side of Paradise." the great Gatsby after which explored the glamour and cruelty of an achievement-oriented society. this side of paradise made him a over night sensation | 38 | |
| 1287455785 | Ernest Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway fought in Italy in 1917. He later became a famous author who wrote "The Sun Also Rises" (about American expatriates in Europe) and "A Farewell to Arms." In the 1920's he became upset with the idealism of America versus the realism he saw in World War I. He was very distraught, and in 1961 he shot himself in the head. | 39 | |
| 1287455786 | Sinclair Lewis | American novelist who satirized middle-class America in his 22 works, including Babbitt (1922) and Elmer Gantry (1927). He was the first American to receive (1930) a Nobel Prize for literature. | 40 | |
| 1287455787 | William Faulkner | United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962) wrote soldier's pay, the sound and the fury, and as i lay dying | 41 | |
| 1287455788 | Ezra Pound/T.S. Eliot/Robert Frost/ e.e.cummings | All great poets of the twenties | 42 | |
| 1287455789 | Eugene O'Neill | America's great playwright of tragedy; author of "The Iceman Cometh," "Long Day's Journey into Night," and "Moon for the Misbegotten' Also wrote Strange Interlude and won the Nobel Prize in 1936 | 43 | |
| 1287455790 | Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | 44 | |
| 1287455791 | Frank Lloyd Wright | Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs. in the 20's | 45 | |
| 1287455792 | "Speculation" | an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits | 46 | |
| 1287455793 | Buying "on margin" | buying stock by paying only a portion of the full cost up-front with promises to pay the rest later | 47 | |
| 1287455794 | National Debt | The sum of government deficits over time. doubling its number from 1914 to 1921 | 48 | |
| 1287455795 | Andrew W. Mellon | Secretary of Treasury under President Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, who instituted a Republican policy of reduced government spending, lower taxes to the wealthy and higher tariffs | 49 |
