the twenties Flashcards

3276365265	what political party were all the presidents in this decade	republican	0
3276368359	who was fighting in the Russian Revolution	reds vs. whites	1
3276369874	who led the reds in the Russian revolution	Lenin (communist party)	2
3276371446	when was the red scare	1919-1920	3
3276374342	what caused the red scare	communist revolutions abroad, Russian Revolution, strikes because shortage of jobs	4
3276377457	xenophobia	fear of foreigners	5
3276379772	what revolution did lenin call for	revolution of workers	6
3276384006	schenk vs USA	says the government can restrict the 1st amendment right to freedom of speech in time of war, constitutional rights are not absolute	7
3276393319	who was the supreme court justice in schenk vs. usa	oliver wendell holmes	8
3276397587	oliver wendell holmes	who is this	9
3276405166	Palmer Raids	attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer arrests several thousand suspected communists	10
3276407517	what prompted the Palmer Raids	red scare and bombings in several cities	11
3276409210	A. Mitchell Palmer	who is this	12
3276416641	Sacco and Vanzetti	italian immigrants accused for murder and robbery, convicted and executed by the electric chair	13
3276419766	who are the poster boys for xenophobia	Sacco and Vanzetti	14
3276423232	who was the judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial	Judge Thayer	15
3276423233	Sacco and Vanzetti	who is this	16
3276430967	what did the 1921 and 1924 immigration acts do	set quotas on number of immigrants from areas of Europe, Asia, and Africa	17
3276436331	what part of Europe were any number of immigrants allowed to come from	western Europe	18
3276444637	Boston Police Strike 1919	governor Calvin Coolidge sent National Guard into Boston after striking police officers were fired	19
3276449415	can emergency services go on strike	no it is illegal	20
3276451025	Calvin Coolidge	who is this	21
3276456721	why were union movements weakened during the twenties	higher wages, mass production industries that aren't skilled based, management hostile to labor unions, have to pay union dues, red scare	22
3276462713	who are the three presidents in the twenties	Harding, Coolidge, Hoover	23
3276464988	what were the main republican policies	pro big business, reject progressive era forms	24
3276468023	what was the democratic party split between	rural populists and urban progressives	25
3276473858	who wins the 1920 election	Harding	26
3276475531	what is Harding's campaign slogan	"return to normalcy" (before WWI and progressives)	27
3276479191	what was Harding's main policies	reduce the role of the government in the economy, higher tarrifs, lower taxes, isolationism	28
3276481133	The Poker Cabinet	Harding's cabinet that included old buddies	29
3276490990	Teapot Dome Affair	Secretary of Interior Albert Fall sold government oil leases for personal gain	30
3276515480	which president was involved with Teapot Dome Affair	harding	31
3276517627	who is the 1st cabinet member to go to prison	Albert Fall	32
3276530850	why did the USA not join the league of nations	Harding pushed for isolationism, article in treaty stated that if one country in the league is attacked then the rest of the members have to fight for them	33
3276544893	Washington Naval Conference 1921	several nations agree to limit size of navies (saves them $$$)	34
3276548372	what countries were involved in the Washington Naval Conference	Great Britain, France, USA, Japan, Italy	35
3276554966	what president did the Washington naval conference occur under	harding	36
3276556029	president Harding	who is this	37
3276563492	1920 election map	what election map is this	38
3276569286	who takes over when Harding dies in 1923	Calvin Coolidge	39
3276574119	what type of appointments does Coolidge make to the supreme court	conservative appointments	40
3276575395	who wins 1924 election	coolidge	41
3276577532	who runs as a progressive in 1924 election	Lafollete	42
3276577533	1924 election map	which election is this	43
3276586673	what type of government does Coolidge believe in	Laissez Faire or "the business of government is business"	44
3276590211	who is secretary of treasury under Coolidge	Andrew Mellon	45
3276592527	who does Coolidge cut taxes on	corporations and the wealthy	46
3276593796	Coolidge's foreign policy	mostly isolationists except still police officer in western hemisphere, control most latin american countries foreign policies (informal imperialism/dollar policy)	47
3276606331	where does Coolidge send marines in 1927	nicaraugua	48
3276606332	why does Coolidge send marines into nicauragua	to put down rebellion led by Augusto Sandino	49
3276609751	Augusto Sandino	who is this	50
3276621104	Nicaragua 1927	where are these marines	51
3276632287	Sadinistas	whose flag is this	52
3276642788	why does Coolidge choose not to run in 1928	doesn't like being president	53
3276645138	who wins 1928 election	Herbert Hoover	54
3276648599	what was Hoover's previous role before he was president	secretary of commerce under Harding/Coolidge	55
3276649923	Herbert Hoover	who is this	56
3276654836	1928 election	which election map is this	57
3276659571	why does the consumer economy boom	increased consumer borrowing and spending	58
3276660987	what are installment plans	buying things on credit	59
3276664334	examples of new electric products in the 1920s	vacuum cleaners, irons, oven	60
3276667349	what was the major electrical company in 1920s	general electric	61
3276669856	why did farmers suffer during the 1920s	mechanization, rising production cost, overproduction	62
3276673918	Henry Ford w/ the first car he made	what is this	63
3276687769	what company leads in the automobile industry	Ford Motor Company	64
3276728397	why was Ford Motor Company so succesful	used the assembly line to produce cars cheaper so lower classes could buy them	65
3276740779	how often were Ford cars built	one every 24 seconds (built half the world's car 1907-1924)	66
3276746945	what industries did the automobile business impact	steel, sheet glass, rubber, petroleum	67
3276759807	how many people could fit in the runabout car	2	68
3276761195	how many people could fit in the touring car	4	69
3276812206	why was it called the roaring twenties	there was a roaring pace of change	70
3276814916	why did roadside attractions begin to pop up	people were beginning to travel long distances in cars	71
3276816742	examples of new roadside attractions	gas stations, roads, diners, motels	72
3276824544	what were flappers characterized as	rebellious women with short hair, makeup, and short skirts	73
3276825841	Clara Bow	role model for many flappers, and actress	74
3276827700	Clara Bow	who is this	75
3276832019	how did most women vote	like their male counterparts	76
3276834199	what was the popular dance in the 1920's	the charleston	77
3276834200	the charleston	what dance is this	78
3276840393	what did the industrial growth result in	increase in suburbs	79
3276843640	Charles Lindbergh	first man to fly the Atlantic Solo (did it in 33.5 Hours and landed in Paris)	80
3276846934	what was Charles Lindbergh's plane called	Spirit of St. Louis	81
3276849451	what was Charles Lindbergh's nickname	"Lucky Lindy"	82
3276852504	Charles Lindbergh	who is this	83
3276860009	Amelia Earhart	first woman to solo fly the Atlantic	84
3276861126	Amelia Earhart	who is this	85
3276863161	Jack Dempsey	heavy weight champion of the world	86
3276864277	Jack Dempsey	who is this	87
3276866718	Lou Gherig	baseball player for the Yankees in the 1920's and 1930's	88
3276871921	Babe Ruth	home run king for Yankees, hit 66 home runs in one season	89
3276878055	what was Babe Ruth's nickname	"Sultan of Swat"	90
3276879685	how long did Babe Ruth's home run record last	40 years	91
3276880801	Gertrude Ederle	first woman to swim the english channel (broke men's record by 2 hours)	92
3276890802	Babe Dridrikison Zaharias	woman Olympic track star and golfer	93
3276896352	Bobby Jones	famous golfer	94
3276900809	Knute Rockne	football star and coach at Notre Dame	95
3276910328	Red Grange	football player that makes pro football big	96
3276914975	Helen Wills	women's tennis champ	97
3276919568	Big Bill Tilden	men's tennis champ	98
3276949417	when did movies begin to have sound	1927	99
3276949418	what was the first "talkie"	The Jazz Singer w/ Al Jolson	100
3276966571	Charlie Chaplin	silent movie star and talkie film "the little tramp"	101
3276977338	what was the 1st radio station	KDKA	102
3276977339	who founded jazz	Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington	103
3276992332	W.C Handy	father of the blues, born in Florence AL	104
3277000120	what was a famous piano song	Gherswin's Rhapsody in Blue	105
3277031077	who were famous artists in the 1920s	Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe	106
3277034881	what were most pieces of art characterized by	yellow and red bright colors in response to WWI	107
3277037976	Lost Generation of Writers	writers who were disillusioned with american society in the 1920's	108
3277047543	popular writers in 1920s	Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald	109
3277049573	where was Fitzgerald's wife Zelda from	Montgomery	110
3277052190	Harlem Renaissance	blacks using arts to express black pride	111
3277054416	Langston Hughes	black poet	112
3277059877	Volstead Act	law enforcement act of Prohibition	113
3277060891	bootleggers	people who supplied illegal alcohol	114
3277062376	speakeasies	illegal bars	115
3277064017	how did gangs make money in the 1920s	bootlegging wiskey	116
3277068629	Al Capone	famous Chicago gangster	117
3277080552	where did gangsters import alcohol from	canada	118
3277081608	St. Valentines Day Massacre	Al Capone's men gunned down rival gang	119
3277086373	Elliot Ness	treasury agent that convicts Capone for tax evasion in 1932	120
3277098015	Fundamentalism	christian movement in 1920s	121
3277102513	Billy Sunday	preacher who broadcasts his sermons every week	122
3277105814	Aimee Semple McPherson	another preacher who broadcast her ideas	123
3277112823	Scopes Trial	John Scopes found guilty for teaching evolution in school	124
3277120268	who was scopes defended by and prosecuted by	defended by Clarence Darrow, prosecuted by Williams Jennings Bryan	125
3277126434	where was the KKK centered in 1920s	midwest	126
3277128372	who were the KKK against	immigrants, catholics, jewish, blacks (because stole their jobs during war)	127
3277130983	what was motto for KKK	"save our land, join the klan"	128
3277132669	who had largest KKK membership in 1920s	Indiana	129
3277135621	Birth of A Nation	a film based on a clansman	130
3277138831	Marcus Garvey	black who encouraged blacks to emigrate to Africa and establish their own country and government, created Universal Negro Improvement Association	131
3277147655	what was the first cartoon	Mickey Mouse as steamboat Willie	132
3277169834	Adkins vs. Children's hospital	gave women minimum wage in DC	133
3277171144	welfare capitalism	a system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees well being	134
3277180871	Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act	first federally funded health care legislation	135
3277189723	American Civil Liberties Union	formed during red scare to protect free speech rights	136
3277191936	National Orgins Act	established quota for immigrants	137
3277216131	soft power	the exercise of popular cultural influence	138