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23 Cards in this Set
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What was the major goal of the 19 twenties ku Klux Klan?
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100% Americanism
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Who was the Attorney General of the United States who led a crusade against communism?
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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who were the two Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of a murder they might not have committed, reflecting anti immigrant feeling in the United States?
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Who are the members of Harding's cabinet that were known for their corrupt activities?
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His poker buddies the "Ohio gang"
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What was the Dawes plan and why was it significant?
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The US wanted to prevent war so they loaned Germany the money so they could pay Britain and France
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What was fundamentalism? what Region of the country was it strongest?
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Prodestant movement and it was in the South and the West
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What was John Scopes accused and convicted of doing?
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Teaching evolution in Tennessee
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what was the butler act?
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The banding of teaching evolution in Tennessee
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What was the significance of the 1920 census?
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Americans migrated to the cities
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What was the illegalization of the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol?
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Prohibition
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Why was prohibition ultimately not successful?
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Because the government didn't have enough money to enforce it
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Be able to list methods by which Americans resisted Against Prohibition??
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making their own alcohol and using alcohol as a medicine
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Which Americans tended to support prohibition?
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Women and rural areas
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What technological innovation revolutionized popular culture in the early 1920's ?
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The radio
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What was a flapper?
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Participating in dancing, more assertive, the new woman
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How was American radio different from European radio?
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Operated on free market
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How could Americans now buy new goods and products in the 1920s?
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Credit / installment plans
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Which company represented the popularity and significance of the automobile?
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Model T Ford
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Where were movies with sound called?
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talkies
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Which full length feature film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and the Reconstruction era?
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birth of Nations 1915
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What was the first talkie? what was the first animated cartoon with sound?
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The jazz singer and Steamboat Willie
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What was the outbreak of jazz and African American culture that began in the twenties known as?
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Harlem Renaissance "black is beautiful"
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which European psychologist ideas influenced the apparent loss of morals that occurred during this decade?
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Sigmund Frued
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