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President Harding was elected in 1920 on the campaign promise “A Return to Normalcy”. What was meant by this term? |
Return to what life was like pre-WWI. |
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What Revolution took place in Russia in October 1917 which brought about communism in their country? |
Bolshevik Revolution |
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Who was the main leader of this Revolution in Russia? |
Vladimir Lenin |
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Which groups will be tied to communistic or “red scare” during the early 1920s? |
Labor unions |
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When did the first “red scare” of the 20th Century take place? |
1919 – 1928 |
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What Attorney General (the “Fighting Quaker”) will lead many raids on communists during the early 1920s? |
General Mitchell Palmer—known as Palmer Raids |
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What is a “closed” shop? |
A shop which forced everyone to join the union |
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What is an “open” shop? |
No union work place. |
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These two Italian immigrants will be convicted of murder in Massachusetts and later will be tied to the communistic movement. |
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
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This group will be a rebirth in the 1920 with a brutal slogan “Kill the Kikes, Koons, and Katholics”? |
KKK |
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What film will glorify the group in question #10 that will be screened in the White House during the Wilson administration? |
D. W. Griffiths “Birth of a Nation” |
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How many members did this group have by the 1920s? |
4 million |
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What will the government do to help stem the tide of immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe? |
Introduce Quota Act in 1921 and 1924 |
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What did the Immigration Act of 1924 do to the percentage of foreigners allowed to enter into the United States? |
Cut the number from 3% to 2% and returned to the year of 1890 to take the percentages of immigrants to allow into the US—pro Western European. |
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What immigrant group did the Immigration Act of 1924 slam the door completely against? |
Japanese |
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What reaction will take place in that country? |
A Japanese super patriot expressed his outrage by committing suicide near the American embassy in Tokyo. |
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How many immigrants from Northern and Western Europe will be allowed into the US in 1924? How many Southern and Eastern Europe? |
140,999 and; 21, 847 |
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What “noble experiment” began in 1919? |
Prohibition |
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What Act will be tied to the “noble experiment”? |
Volstead Act |
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How were the legislators of the time hypocritical? |
Voted dry, but privately drinking wet |
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What was the name given to those who were creating illegal alcohol? |
Bootlegger—Rum Runners |
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What was the name of the illegal bars which served alcohol during the 1920s? |
Speakeasies |
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Where did most of the illegal alcohol come from during the 1920s? |
Canada |
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What will be a horrible consequence of the “noble experiment”? |
Organized Crime |
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Who will be the most infamous leaders from question #24? |
“Scarface” Al Capone |
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What famous massacre will take place on February 14, 1929? |
St. Valentine’s Day massacre when Capone ordered the killing of his rival’s leaders. |
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What did the Lindbergh Law do? |
Made interstate abduction in certain circumstances a death-penalty offense. |
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Why was the Lindbergh Law passed? |
Because Charles Lindbergh’s baby son was kidnapped and later found dead close to the house. |
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The teaching of ________ was said to be destroying faith in God and the Bible, while contributing to the moral breakdown of youth in the jazz age. |
Darwinian evolution |
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What two groups will be said to have been trying to eliminate God from the US in the 1920s? |
Bolsheviks and Darwinists |
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The ________ __________ ___________ trial will take place in Dayton, TN in 1925 arguing _____________ vs ____________? How did this case challenge the establishment? |
Scopes Monkey Trial; Creationism vs Evolution; It challenged the origins of God and evolution. |
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This famous baseball player will earn more than the President of the United States in the 1920s? |
Babe Ruth |
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What will fuel the 2nd Industrial Revolution during the 1920s? |
Electricity |
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This man, more than any other American, will be responsible for putting America on rubber tires? |
Henry Ford |
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What was the name of Ford’s first car? |
Model T (“Tin Lizzie”) |
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What color did Ford cars come in? |
Any color you wanted, as long as it was black. |
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This auto giant will be responsible for giving consumers more choices especially in colors? |
General Motors |
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What wage will Henry Ford introduce producing a frenzy of workers trying to work for his company? |
5-dollar work day |
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What industry will be affected greatly by the introduction of the automobile? |
Railroads |
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What social by-products came about because of the introduction of the automobile? |
Leisure hours increases, Fresher food, Women were further freed from men, consolidation of schools and churches, sprawling suburbs. |
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How did the automobile contribute to improved air and environmental quality? |
Can you say horse poop and urine. YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!1 |
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These two men are known for the miracle at Kitty Hawk? |
Orville and Wilbur |
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This aviation giant was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. |
Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis |
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Who will this aviation giant help develop his air force in the 1930s? |
Hitler |
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This man was responsible for creating a wireless telegraph in the 1890s? |
George Marconi |
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This film will be the first motion picture 1903? |
The Great Train Robbery |
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This film will be the “talkie” in 1927? |
The Jazz Singer staring Al Jolson |
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These type of women had bobbed hair, higher hemlines, stocking rolled, and wore a lot more make up? |
Flappers |
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What is Margaret Sanger best known for in the 1920s? |
Tried to create the organized birth-control movement |
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Why did Margaret Sanger want this movement? |
To stop the births of non-white children—Eugenicists. |
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This man is responsible for speaking more openly about sexual repression? |
Sigmund Freud |
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Name some of the Jazz Greats during the 1920s. |
“Jelly Roll” Morton, Betsy Smith, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong |
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This man was known as the “Poet Laureate of Harlem”? |
Langston Hughes |
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What did the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) want to accomplish? |
Promoted the resettlement of American blacks in their own “African homeland” |
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What separatist movement did the UNIA lead to in the 1950s? |
Nation of Islam |
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This movement was known as a great awakening of the spirit for African Americans? |
Harlem Renaissance. |
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Who was the author of the book The Great Gatsby? |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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This famous author will publish such books at The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929)—later he will commit suicide? |
Ernest Hemingway |
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This Treasury Secretary will help to convince Congress to lower the tax rate on personal income in the early 1920s. |
Andrew Mellon |
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What taxes will be repealed during the early 1920s? |
Excess-profits tax, abolishing the gift tax, and reduced excise taxes, the surtax and the income and estate taxes. |
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Place the following in Chronological order: Wright brothers, Equal Rights Amendment proposed, Lindbergh flies, Sacco-Vanzetti trial, “Red Scare”, Eighteenth Amendment ratified, Scopes Monkey trial. |
Wright Brothers, Eighteenth Amendment, “Red Scare”, Sacco-Vanzetti, Equal Right Amendment, Scopes trial, Lindbergh’s flight |
