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63 Cards in this Set
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but resotration; not surgery but serenity.
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Harding
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What took place in 1917 and spurred a new anti-red sentiment in the US?
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Bolshevik Revolution
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What did the following statement describe:
"a guy with a face like a porcupine and a breath that would scare a pole cat... If I had my way, I'd fill the jails so full of them that their feet would stick out the window. |
A bolshevik
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Who was the attorney General at the time of the red scare?
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Palmer
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He was named the
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Fighting Quaker
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But he was later renamed the
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Quaking fighter
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What does the ship Buford stand for?
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Soviet Ark
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Many states passed these anti red statues.
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criminal syndicalism laws
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What became the new American plan?
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an open (non labor union) shop
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Anti red and nativism came to head in the ______ case
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"judicial lynching case"
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"I believe we should place the reds all on a ship of stone, with sails of lead, and that their first stopping place should be hell"
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Empey
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Where did the KKK become especially strong?
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Bible Belt
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Lynching was made a federal crime as a result of the KKK |
false
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What were nativists in favor of?
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100% Americans
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US struggled to pass the _____ in 1921 to stem immigration followed up by the _____ in 1924.
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Emergency Quota Act (3% of nationality could immigrate each year)
Immigration Act of 1924 (2% allowed, census date changed to 1890) |
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When did congress abolish the national orginins quota system?
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1965
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Who was exempt from the system?
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Canadians and Latin Americans
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Who thought the US should provide a protective canopy for ethnic and racial groups to perserve uniqueness?
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Kallen
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Who thought greater cross fertilization was needed in US?
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Bourne
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American should be "not a nationality but a trans nationality a weaving back and forth with the other lands of many threads of all sizes and colors"
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Bourne
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Cultures mixing became known as
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"cultural pluralism"
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What act implemented the 18th amendment?
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Volstead Act
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When did the first Poles arrive in US?
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Jamestown 1608
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Where is the "American Warsaw"
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Chicago
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What were the illegal bars known as?
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speakeasies
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In Gang terminology what does typewriter mean?
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machine gun
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"Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a businessman. When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve ti on a silver tray on Lake Shore Drive, it's hospitality"
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Al Capone
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Two nuggets for Al Capone
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"Scarface"
"Public Enemy Number One" |
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What did al capone serve jail time for?
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income tax evasion
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Organized crime was led under...
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Racketeers
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Who suggested "learning by doing"?
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Dewey
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Explain the people involved in the "Monkey Trial of 1925"
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Scopes teacher
Bryan (former president) presecution Darrow Defense Scopes had to pay 100 dollar fine |
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Who argued that Jesus was the best advertising man of all time?
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Barton
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Quotes connecting Jesus and Advertising =
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Barton
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Nugget for Babe Ruth?
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The Sultan of Swat
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What was the "house that Ruth built"
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Yankee Stadium
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Who was "the Father of Scientific Management"
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Taylor
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Henry Ford builts the Model T fords in Detriot, his famous quote is.... + nugget fo him?
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"History is bunk" "Automobile Wizard"
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The idea of a moving assembly line is named?
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Fordism
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What did an Indiana Juvenile court rule the car was?
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"a house of prostitution on wheels"
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What was the first flight called?
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"the miracle at Kitty Hawk"
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Who flew the first transcontinental flight?
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Lindbergh "lone eagle"
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What invented the first radio?
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Marconi
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First melodrama movies were named...
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nickelodeons
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What was the first "talkie"?
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The Jazz Singer
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What did the census reveal of 1920?
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most americans lived in urban areas
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Who lead the birth control movement?
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Sanger
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Alice Pauls National Woman's Party faught for >>>
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equal rights ammendment
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What did observers say of the new sexuality of america in the 1920's?
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"chimes had struck sex o clock in america"
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What were these new women called?
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flappers
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Who was the viennese physician that argued sexual represision was responsible for variety of nervoius and emotional illls
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Freud
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What was one of the largest black communities in the world?
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Harlem NY
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Who formed the United Negro Improvemtn Assos.
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Garvey
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Who was the "Dean of American Literature"?
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Howells
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Who was the "Bad boy of Baltimore"?
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Mencken
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Who argued Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone somewhere might be happy"
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Mencken
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Who wrote the Great Gatsby and said "all gods dead, all war fought, all faiths in man shaken"
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Fitzgerald
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Who was the "Poet Laureate of Harlem"?
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Hughes
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Who wrote play and won the nobel peace prize in 1936?
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O'Neill
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Nugget for Empire State Building?
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"Empy State Building"
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What did the congress create to look over the budget?
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Bureau of Budget
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Who was the Secretary of Treasury?
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Mellon
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Who was named the "greatest secreatry of the Treasury since Hamilton"
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Mellon
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