The 1920's

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Established the maximum number of immigrants who were allowed into the US from each foreign country.

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Quota System

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Membership of this increased as a result of the red scare and nativism, but declined once it's criminal activity and racial violence became exposed.

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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A policy of abstaining from involvement in world affairs.

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Isolationism

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This group of people was harassed arrested and deported during the red scare.

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Anarchists

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To expand its membership in the 1920s, the _______________

Engaged in blaming problems on immigrants, playing on people's fears of political radicals, and allowing members to profit from recruiting new members

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Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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The immigration policies of the 1920s limited immigration from what?

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Japan, Italy, and England

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During the 1920's, union membership ____________ considerably.

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Dropped

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The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was for what?

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Carrying mail

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What was the main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920s?

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The Automobile

Front 10

To protect their own interests, employers often accused striking workers for being what?

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Communists

Front 11

What was defended at the Scopes trial?

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Fundamentalism

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Who is called as a witness in the Scopes trial?

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William Jennings Bryan

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Someone who provided illegal alcohol.

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Bootlegger

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One of the effects of __________ was a rise in crime.

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Prohibition

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Prohibition describes an era after the ____________ went into affect.

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18th Amendment

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The government failed to budget enough _____________

to enforce Prohibition.

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Men & Money

Front 17

Who did the ACLU hire to represent John T Scopes?

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Clarence Darrow

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An "underground" saloon or nightclub where liquor was sold illegally.

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Speakeasy

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A Protestant movement that was grounded in the literal, word for word, interputation of the Bible.

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Fundamentalism

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Introduced colored canvas

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Georgia O'Keefe

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First American for Nobel prize for literature.

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Sinclair Lewis

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Sports hero

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Jack Dempsey

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American composer made "Orchestra plus Jazz"

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George Gershwin

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Wrote "The Great Gatspy"

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F.Scott Fitzgerald

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Introduced simple tough style of prose.

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Ernest Hemingway

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First solo flight across the Atlantic.

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Charles Lindbergh

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Wrote poems celebrating youth

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Edna St. Vincent Malay

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Why was it difficult to enforce the laws governing Prohibition?

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Sometimes law-enforcement's were in on it. And it didn't have enough financial power.

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Refers to a celebration of African-American culture in literature and art.

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Harlem Renaissance

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John Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of __________.

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Evolution

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"double standard" refers to stricter social and moral standards for _______ in the 1920s.

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Women

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F.Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the...

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Jazz Age

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Fought for legislation to protect African-Americans, worked with anti-lynching organizations, and published "the crisis".

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NAACP

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Jazz music was born here and was spread to the north by musicians such as Louis Armstrong.

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New Orleans

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How did many famous writers of the 1920s view American culture?

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A lost generation

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The crime rate ______ in the 1920s.

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Rose

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The ____________ of 1910-1920 refers to the movement of African-Americans from the south to northern cities.

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Great migration

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According to most fundamentalist what caused urban slums, child child-abuse, and crime.

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Alcohol