Apush Chapter 31 Flashcards

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Red Scare 1819-1820

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resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Americans were afraid of the ideas of socialism. This resulted in the passing of criminal syndicalism laws that made it against the law to advocate violence to secure social change.

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Palmer Raids

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Attorney General Mitchell Palmer who saw read earned the title of "The fighting quaker". He would arrest and deport suspicious foreigners. Ended when a bomb blew up at his house.

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"The American Plan"

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basically just the open shop idea. Some businesses used this, and it was in effect an anti-union plan. It promoted better manager-worker relations and gave the worker benefits that made unions seems unnecessary, like pensions and insurance.

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2nd KKK

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Was a nativist group and spread in the mid-west and bible belt. They were a force against the diversity and modernity in American culture. This group gained political potency but collapsed when money embezzlement launched a congressional investigation.

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Emergency Quota Act (1921)

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Was the first navist law that passed that restricted newcomers from Europe to a quota of 3 percent of who had been living in the United States in 1910

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Immigration Act of 1924

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The second nativist law dropped from 3 percent to 2 percent and changed from the census of 1910 to 1890. It also halted all Asian immigration.

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Volstead Act

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Passed in 1919 that lead to the Eighteenth Amendment it stated that It provided further that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act."

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Scopes Monkey Trial

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Was a trial with John T Scopes a teacher in Tennessee for teaching evolution in school. He was protected by Clarence Darrow and prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan. Scopes was found guilty but did not have to pay the fine due to a technicality.

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Bruce Barton 1925

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Was the father of advertisement in 1925 when he published the book "The Man Nobody Knows" which presented Jesus Christ as the greatest business man of all time.

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Frederick Taylor

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Created the idea of Scientific Management. Which had the idea of which sought to eliminate wasted motion. He also created stopwatch efficiency.

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Charles Lindbergh

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Was the first pilot to fly across the atlantic in a single engine plane. This achievement dramatized and popularized flying while giving a strong boost to the infant aviation industry

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Birth of a Nation (Film)

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Directed by D.W. Griffith, it glorified the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction days and defamed both blacks and Northern Carpetbagger. The attempted rape scene upset African Americans were outraged at the film. This helped launch the hollywood industry in Southern California.

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The Jazz Singer (Film)

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Al Jolson starred in the first speaking film about an a Jewish boy growing up with an Orthodox father contradicted against his dream to become a jazz singer.

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Alice Paul 1923

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Was a women rights advocate that advocated for the equal rights clause adding women. She started the Equal Rights Commission. National women's party leader during WW1

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Langston Hughes

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was a poet who grew up in Harlem whose first volume of verses "The Weary Blues" that were published in 1926. During the Harlem Rennaisnce.

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Marcus Garvey (UNIA)

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Formed the United Negro Improvement Association which advocated for a new black empire in Africa with him the leader. It also kept black money in black hands with the Black Star Line Steamship. Although a failure, the UNIA helped African Americans gain self confidence and self reliance in cities.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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an Architect that believed the theory that buildings should grow from their sites and incorporate indigenous materials and not mimic the styles of Roman and Greek. His ideas helped build the Empire State Building in 1931.

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Andrew Mellon

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was the Secretary of the Treasury that created many tax reductions from 1921 to 1926. Congress also followed by repealing the gift tax, excess profit tax, and excise taxes. High taxes also discouraged business and brought a smaller net return to the Treasury. Also high taxes forced people to invest in tax exempt securities rather than factories. Mellon helped reduce the national debt but also indirectly encouraged the Bull Market. His policies also favored the rapid expansion of capital investment

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Sacco and Vanzetti 1921

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in 1921 of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster and guard. The jury and the Judge were prejudiced in some degree against the defendants because they were Italians, atheists, anarchist, and draft dodgers.