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33 Cards in this Set
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Define Nativism |
Prejudice against foreign born people |
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Define isolationism, and why the U.S. believed in it |
Policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs |
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Define Communism |
Everything ruled by a dictator |
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Define Red Scare |
Panic and fear that the Communists (European) would overthrow America the way they did in Russia in 1917 |
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Describe the effects of the Teapot Dome Scandal |
Decreased trust in the government. |
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Describe fundamentalism |
Christian Protestant movement that promoted a literal interpretation of the Bible and rejected any science that contradicted it. |
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Describe the Harlem Renaissance |
Provided a foundation of African American intellectualism |
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Describe the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and why they were convicted |
Italian anarchists and immigrants framed for robbery due to their beliefs and origin. |
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Define mass media, and discuss it's impact |
Communication that reaches millions, commercials/advertisements |
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Describe the immigration restrictions of the 1920's |
Emergency Quota Act, National Origins Quota Act |
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Describe the Scopes "Monkey" Trial |
Fight between traditional and modern views (creationism vs. Evolution) |
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Describe the 18th amendment and it's impact on American society |
Organized crime, speakeasies, and bootleggers |
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Define installment plan buying and why it impacted life in the 1920's |
Purchasing goods with credit; paying for something over a period of time |
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Analyze Henry Ford's contributions to the 1920's |
Assembly line |
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Explain how mass production benefits consumers |
Lowers prices of goods |
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Who were the U.S. Presidents during the 1920's? When did they take office? |
Woodrow Wilson (1914-1921) Warren Harding (1921-1923) Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) Followed by Herbert Hoover |
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Describe Warren G. Harding's "return to normalcy" |
Returning the society and the economy to a pre-war mentality. |
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Describe the impacts of the automobile industry on American society |
Construction of roads, mostly everyone had a car, people could travel to the city for work. |
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Describe the characteristics of the 1920's |
Roaring twenties, jazz, soul music, African American intellect |
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Describe the 19th amendment |
Women's suffrage |
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Define the Great Migration |
Movement of African Americans to the north to escape racism |
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Describe the push and pull factors of the Great Migration |
Push- slavery & racism Pull- work & freedom |
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When did the stock market crash? Why is that significant? |
1929. Signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. |
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Define Jazz music and it's impact on the international stage |
First pure American style of music |
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Why did advertising become widespread during the 1920's? |
Availability of the radio |
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Major accomplishments of Clarence Darrow |
Prominent lawyer who defended John Scopes |
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Major accomplishments of William Jennings Bryan |
Politician; prosecuting attorney in Scopes trial |
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Major accomplishments of Glenn Curtis |
First U.S. Navy Pilot |
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Major accomplishments of Charles Lindbergh |
First nonstop transatlantic flight |
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Major accomplishments of Marcus Garvey |
Advocated separation for African Americans |
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Major accomplishments of W.E.B. DuBois |
Founded the NAACP |
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Major accomplishments of Booker T. Washington |
Advocated for African American education; founded the Tuskegee Institute |
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Major accomplishments of Langston Hughes |
Wrote the poem "Harlem" and "The Weary Blues" |
