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34 Cards in this Set
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What are the bookend dates?
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End of WWI 1919
Stock Market Crash 1929(black tuesday) |
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What is the 14 points?
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Treaty of Versailles rejected by US)
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Red Scare
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Fear of communist controll
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What is the 18th Ammendment
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Prohibition
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19th Ammendment
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women's sufferage
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Who was Jim Crowe
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Discriminatory laws that restricted black rights
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Marcus Garvey
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Jamacian US citizen who pushed blacks to push for their rights and economic opportunity
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Economic Boom
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Low unemployment
New gadgets (cars, fridge, radio) stock market surge |
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Andrew mellon
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Secretary of Treasure ran it as a pro business instatution
le se faire |
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Herbert Hoover
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Secretary of Commerce
wanted government relationship with business |
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Labor Struggles
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bad work conditions
many deaths communism |
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Farmers
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bad becuase of overprodution and the government would not help
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American Christian Idealism
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the US was a christian country
Battle of ideas |
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Fundementalists
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stuck to traditional christian values
narrow minded stood for something |
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Modernists
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embraced the change in the US
believed in evolution |
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The Scopes Trial (1925)
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John Scopes-teacher who wanted to teach evolution(is convicted)
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William Jennings Bryant
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Ran for president three times
against Scopes |
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Clarance darrow
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defended scopes
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Calvin Coolidge
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VP to harding
became president when harding died |
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McNary-Haugen bill
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was to keep the price of staple crops regardless of what happens
did not pass |
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Alfred Smith
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Democratic presidential candidate
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Charles Lindbergh
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first to fly solo from NY to Paris nonstop
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Frederick Taylor
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Scientific management
made jobs more efficent by finding better ways to do them |
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Harlem Renaissance
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became hub of cultural activity for blacks
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Langston Hughes
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black jazz poet
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F Scott Fitzgerald
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Great Gatsby
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Lost generation
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US authors got fed up with american society so they moved to europe
hemingway, elliot |
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"Lucky Lindy"
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the first Transatlantic flight
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Who were the 3 presidents in the 20's
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Harding
Coolidge Hoover (all republican) |
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Albert fall gives access to oil companys and takes $100,000 in bribes
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Washington Naval Conference (1922-23)
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Presented Disamament idea
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Kellogg-briand Pact(1928)
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outlawed war
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Red Scare 1919-1920
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fear of communism
russian revolution working strikes |
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Palmer Raids
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mailbox bombs
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