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26 Cards in this Set
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Recession?
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4.5 million returning veterans caused unemployment to surge, wartime shortages left consumer prices high, corporation were slow to go back to peace-time production
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3600 of tem???
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violent labor strikes
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feared??
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communism
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red scare?
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fear of communist take over
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Palmer raids?
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hundreds of american citizens arrested for being suspected anarchist and communist
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ESSAY- Sacco and Vanzetti??
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1920 in Boston, we have a pay roll robery (armed car is robbed) 2 guards are killed. Saco and Vanzetti were in the area and had guns on them. (not illegal to carry gun) the police arret them with no evidence because they are foreign and charge them with murder. Both are anarchists and immigrants and refused to serve in WW1 the judge wont let the defender bring a wittness because he is antiimmigrant (Judge gives his own opinon og the situation before the jury decides) and they are found guilty and sentenced to death and in 1927 they are electricuted
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Election of 1920?
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D-James Cox(ohio gov.)
R-Harding (Ohio senator) harding wins because the people didnt like the democrats at the moment cause they blamed them for what was goin bad in america |
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Republican Formula? (3)
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lower spending, lower taxes, high tariffs
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ohio gang?
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president Hardings corrupt cabinet
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Harding dies of heart attack, who takes over?
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Clavin Coolidge
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Teapot Dome Scandal?
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Albert Fall- Sec. of Interior
(gets the navy to sign over there oil reserves to him then he illegally leases it |
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Henery Ford?
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largest production plant in US history and the first to use an assembly line
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flappers?
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women who challenge social tradition dress anhd behavior
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Fads?
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the thing to do of that time (dance marathon, beauty pagents, barn storming, risk taking, flag pole sitting)
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motion pictures?
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black and white and silent
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1927??
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1st "talkie"- The Jazz Singer - 80 million americans a week
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1939??
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1st color movie (Wizard of OZ and Gone With The Wind)
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Most famous sports man?
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Babe Ruth
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what music genre became popular?
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jazz
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Charles Lindbergh?
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1st to fly across the Atlantic solo
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Volstead Act?
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said that alcohol couldnt be consumed, sold, produced or bought
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bootleggers?
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illegally made alcohol
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speakeasys?
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illegal bar during prohibition (36000 in NYC)
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Al Capone?
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most famous gangster of the 1920s
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Election of 1928?
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R-Hoover
D-Smith Hoover won becasue Smith was a catholic |
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ESSAY-Scopes Monkey Trial?
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1925 TN passes a law saying it is illegal to teach evolution ( in the bible belt of america), ACLU offered to help any arrested teachers, John Scopes who tought in Dayton, Tn was arrested for teaching evolution. Scopes attorney was Clarence Darrow and prosecuting was William Jenniness Bryan. Clarence was winning but the jeory found him guilty because they were for creatism and fined him 100 dollars. people fight outside courthouse they were carrying monkeys and signs saying "Read Bible", later it as overturned by an appeal court and the law is overturned
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