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27 Cards in this Set
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Welfare Capitalism |
Industry'sstrategy of improving working conditions and providing health insurance forworkers. Lead to worker Unions. |
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Blacklist |
Thosedenied employment for being known union organizers. |
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Reasons for blacklist |
Unions,high wages, and the want for luxury items and good lead to blacklists |
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Credit |
Instead of saving money every month, buying oncredit became more socially acceptable. By the end of the 1920's Americansrelied on credit to purchase nearly 90 percent of their major durable goods. |
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The Red Scare |
Fearthat the U.S. was vulnerable to a communist takeover.
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Sacco and Vanzetti |
Italian immigrants living in Massachusetts who were arrested, tried, and convicted of robbery and murder despite the lack of solid evidence. Both were executed in 1927 via electric chair |
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Warren G. Harding |
-Became president in 1920. Abandoned progressive ideals to return to normalcy -Dies in 1923, replaced by Calvin Coolidge |
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Teapot Dome Scandal of 1923 |
Incident of Albert Fall taking bribes for leasing federal oil land |
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Albert B. Fall |
Leased government land to American oil men in exchange for bribes |
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Harry M. Daugherty |
-Attorney General -Resigned for taking bribes |
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Calvin Coolidge |
-Replaces Warren G. Harding as president in 1923 when he dies -Restored the reputation by creating bipartisan commission to investigate the corruptness of Harding's administration |
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Prohibition |
-Established in 1919 -18th Amendment -Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol |
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Volstead Act |
-Established in 1919 -Laid down strict punishments for violating the 18th Amendment |
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Speakeasies |
-Secret bars run by former saloon-keepers who were forced to shut down because of prohibition -Received supplies from ethnic gangs (Italy, Germany, and Ireland) who hated Prohibition |
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21st Amendment |
-Established in 1933 -Repealed Prohibition |
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Movies |
-"Talking pictures" appeared in 1927 with "The Jazz Singer" -Movie-going became popular as the urban movie houses were built and decorated lavishly |
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Music |
-Jazz music became more popular as the originally derived African-American culture-based sound crossed over to white audiences |
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Phonograph |
Birthed the recording industry |
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Radio |
-Commercial radio began broadcasting in 1922 -Warren G. Harding was the first president to make a radio broadcast |
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19th Amendment |
-Established in 1920 -Gave women the right to vote |
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Equal Rights Amendment |
-Proposed in 1923 -Proposed by the National Women's Party -Objective was to eliminate any differences between sexes such as pay scales -Was NOT approved by Congress |
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Flappers |
-Womensported new fashion with short "bobbed" hair, knee-length dressesthat were considered daringly short, public smoking, and dances such as"the Charleston." |
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Modernists |
Adapt their Protestant faith to the findings of scientific theories and evidence that called into the question the literalness of the bible |
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Fundamentalists |
Insisted that the bible should be understood as God's revealed word, absolutely down to the last detail |
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Scopes Monkey Trial |
-Occurred in 1925 -Tennesseeprohibited the teachings of evolution in the classroom. John Scopes, youngteacher, deliberately broke the law and taught evolution. Scopes was convictedand charges $100 |
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Immigration Restrictions |
Quota and National Origins Act restricted the amount of immigrants permitted into the U.S. |
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KKK |
The Ku Klux Klan had a resurgence during the 1920s |
