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The decade was a time of significant dramatic ___, ____, and ____ change |
Social, economic, political |
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what was evidence of how much of American society remained unreconciled to the modernizing currents of the new era? |
Intense cultural complex |
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After the recession of 1921 through 1920 to do United States began a period of what? |
Uninterrupted prosperity and economic expansion |
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The nations manufacturing output rose by_____ |
More than 60% |
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What caused the economic boom? (Three) |
•Technology: assembly line, automobiles • Radio • The development of the radio engine and the creation of pressurized cabin's(trains) |
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What was one of the most important industries in the nation? |
Automobiles |
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The increased mobility that the automobile made possible increased what? |
Demand for suburban housing |
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Who discovered the theory of modulation? |
Reginald Fessenden |
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What was made possible with the discovery of the theory of modulation? |
to transmit speech and music over the radio |
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By ____ there were over ____ radio sets in American homes |
1925; 2 million |
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What laid the groundwork for the great increase in commercial travel in the 1930s and beyond? |
The development of the radial engine of the creation of pressurized cabin (trains became faster and more efficient) |
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By the late ____ there were ___ telephones in the US |
1930s; 25 million |
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In 1929 ____ that minimum comfort level and_____ were at or below the level of subsistence and poverty |
2/3 of the American people; Half |
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Define welfare capitalism; Who instituted this? |
Paternalistic techniques – shortened workweek, raised wages,and paid vacations; Henry Ford |
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Define Company unions |
Workers councils and shop committees organized by the corporations for laborers to voice grievances to |
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capitalism gave workers control over their own fates. True/false? |
False |
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The entire system of welfare capitalism collapsed when? |
1929 |
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What sought peaceful cooperation with employers and remained wedded to the concept of the craft union? |
The American Federation of labor (AFL) |
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Who led it? |
William green,after Samuel Gompers death |
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Define open shop |
A shop in which no worker could be required to join a union |
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What was a crucial element of democratic capitalism? |
Protection of open shop |
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What was the crusade for the open shop titled? |
The American plan |
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What did Vannevar bush create and who did he lead? |
Researchers at MIT; created an instrument capable of performing a variety of complex tasks – the first analog computer |
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What did the title American plan become a pretext for? |
Harsh campaign of unionbusting |
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From 1922 1929 what happened to union membership? |
It fell from more than 5 million to under 3 million |
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What were pink collar jobs and who had them? (Ex?) |
Low paying service occupations; women. Example: secretaries, sales clerks and telephone operators, and in other nonmanual service capacities |
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Who were not represented by unions? |
Women and African Americans |
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Give examples of jobs most blacks had |
Janitors, dishwashers, garbage collectors, and domestics and another service capacities |
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What was one of the few important unions dominated and led by African-Americans? |
A. Phillip Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
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Who replaced Chinese in wake of the Chinese exclusion acts menial jobs in California? |
The Japanese immigrants |
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What did some Japanese due to skip the ranks of the unskilled? |
Forming their own small businesses or setting themselves up as truck farmers |
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What are Japanese immigrants called and their American born children? Why did California pass laws in 1913 and 1920 to make it difficult for them to buy land? |
Issei and Nisei. They had such significant economic success |
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Who also swelled the unskilled workforce and generated considerable hostility? |
Filipinos |
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Who build a much more complex computer with memory? |
Howard Aiken-->assistance from Harvard and MIT |
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Who was Gregor Mendel? |
Catholic monk who performed experiments on the hybridization of vegetables and his monastery garden. They shaped modern genetic research |
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Who discovered the importance of Gregor Mendel's experiments? |
Thomas hunt morgan of Columbia University and Cal Tech |
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What were Cal Tech's experiments and what did they reveal? |
Experiments with the fruit flies revealed house several genes can be transmitted together. Also revealed the way in which they were arranged along the chromosomes. |
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What did Cal Tech's work open the path to? |
Understanding how genes should recombine |
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Certain industries seem to move naturally toward what? |
Consolidation – concentrating production in a few large firms |
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What did industrialists fear? |
Overcapacity causing recession |
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Was the great unrealized dream of the new era? |
To find a way to stabilize the economy |
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The entire system collapsed when? |
1929 |
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Who led it? |
William green,after Samuel Gompers death |
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What did Vannevar bush create and who did he lead? |
Researchers at MIT; created an instrument capable of performing a variety of complex tasks – the first analog computer |
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What did the title American plan become a pretext for? |
Harsh campaign of unionbusting |
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What did tractors begin to be powered by? |
Internal combustion |
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What did tractors begin to be powered by? |
Internal combustion |
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What two things did agricultural researchers work on? |
Invention of hybrid corn and the creation of chemical fertilizers and pesticides |
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What did tractors begin to be powered by? |
Internal combustion |
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What two things did agricultural researchers work on? |
Invention of hybrid corn and the creation of chemical fertilizers and pesticides |
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Agricultural productivity increased greatly but agricultural good demand did not rise as fast as production. What was the result? |
Substantial surpluses, a disastrous decline in food prices, and a severe drop in farmers incomes. |
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What was the response to the severe drop in farmers incomes? |
Some farmers began to demand relief in forms of government price supports |
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Define parity |
A complicated formula for setting an adequate price for farm goods and ensuring that farmers would earn back at least their production costs no matter how the national or world agricultural market might fluctuate |
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Define parity |
A complicated formula for setting an adequate price for farm goods and ensuring that farmers would earn back at least their production costs no matter how the national or world agricultural market might fluctuate |
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What was the legislative expression of the demand for parity? |
McNary Haugen Bill |
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Define parity |
A complicated formula for setting an adequate price for farm goods and ensuring that farmers would earn back at least their production costs no matter how the national or world agricultural market might fluctuate |
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What was the legislative expression of the demand for parity? |
McNary Haugen Bill |
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Why did the McNary Haugen Bill do? |
Required the gov. To support prices at parity for grain, cotton, tobacco, and rice. |
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Define parity |
A complicated formula for setting an adequate price for farm goods and ensuring that farmers would earn back at least their production costs no matter how the national or world agricultural market might fluctuate |
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What was the legislative expression of the demand for parity? |
McNary Haugen Bill |
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Why did the McNary Haugen Bill do? |
Required the gov. To support prices at parity for grain, cotton, tobacco, and rice. |
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In 1926 and 1928 Congress approved the Mcnary Haugen bill but who vetoed it both times? |
President Coolidge |
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Define parity |
A complicated formula for setting an adequate price for farm goods and ensuring that farmers would earn back at least their production costs no matter how the national or world agricultural market might fluctuate |
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What was the legislative expression of the demand for parity? |
McNary Haugen Bill |
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Why did the McNary Haugen Bill do? |
Required the gov. To support prices at parity for grain, cotton, tobacco, and rice. |
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In 1926 and 1928 Congress approved the Mcnary Haugen bill but who vetoed it both times? |
President Coolidge |
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No group was more aware of the ______ than the ____ |
Emergence of consumerism; advertising industry |
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Define parity |
A complicated formula for setting an adequate price for farm goods and ensuring that farmers would earn back at least their production costs no matter how the national or world agricultural market might fluctuate |
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What was the legislative expression of the demand for parity? |
McNary Haugen Bill |
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What did the McNary Haugen Bill do? |
Required the gov. To support prices at parity for grain, cotton, tobacco, and rice. |
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In 1926 and 1928 Congress approved the Mcnary Haugen bill but who vetoed it both times? |
President Coolidge |
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No group was more aware of the ______ than the ____ |
Emergence of consumerism; advertising industry |
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The 1920s what did publicists begin to do? |
Identified products with a particular lifestyle, encouraged public to absorb values of promotion and salesmanship and admire effective boosters and publicist |
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Who wrote one of the most successful books of the 1920s and what was its title? |
Bruce Barton; the man nobody knows |
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What did the man nobody knows portray Jesus as? |
Super salesman. Jesus had been concerned with living a full and rewarding life and 20th century people should be concerned with the same |
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What became a more popular and powerful form of mass communication in the 1920s? |
Movies |
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What became a more popular and powerful form of mass communication in the 1920s? |
Movies |
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When did addition of sound to motion pictures begin? |
1927 |
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What became a more popular and powerful form of mass communication in the 1920s? |
Movies |
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When did addition of sound to motion pictures begin? |
1927 |
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What was the first feature-length "talkie" and who starred in it? |
The Jazz Singer- Al Jolston |
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What led to the creation of the new Motion Picture Association, and what did that impose? |
Series of scandalscandals; tighter controls over content of films |
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What led to the creation of the new Motion Picture Association, and what did that impose? |
Series of scandalscandals; tighter controls over content of films |
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What did the start of the new motion picture Association cause? |
More conventionally acceptable films broadening the appeal of movies |
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What led to the creation of the new Motion Picture Association, and what did that impose? |
Series of scandalscandals; tighter controls over content of films |
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What did the start of the new motion picture Association cause? |
More conventionally acceptable films broadening the appeal of movies |
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What was the first commercial radio station in America and where was it located? 1920 |
KDKA; Pittsburgh |
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When did the first national radio network form and what was it called? |
1927, the National Broadcasting Company |
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When did the first national radio network form and what was it called? |
1927, the National Broadcasting Company |
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What did Congress pass in 1927? |
Radio act |
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When did the first national radio network form and what was it called? |
1927, the National Broadcasting Company |
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What did Congress pass in 1927 and what did that create? |
Radio act--> Federal Radio Commission |
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What did the Federal Radio Commission do? |
Regulated public airwaves used by private companies |
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When did the first national radio network form and what was it called? |
1927, the National Broadcasting Company |
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What did Congress pass in 1927 and what did that create? |
Radio act--> Federal Radio Commission |
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What did the Federal Radio Commission do? |
Regulated public airwaves used by private companies |
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What did the federal radio commission become in 1935? |
Federal Communications commission |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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Who was John B Watson and what did he do? |
He challenged the Freudian belief in introspection and the exploration of the unconscious |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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Who was John B Watson and what did he do? |
He challenged the Freudian belief in introspection and the exploration of the unconscious |
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What did John B Watson believe? |
Mental ailments should be diagnosed by observation and treated by addressing symptoms not underlying psychological problems |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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Who was John B Watson and what did he do? |
He challenged the Freudian belief in introspection and the exploration of the unconscious |
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What did John B Watson believe? |
Mental ailments should be diagnosed by observation and treated by addressing symptoms not underlying psychological problems |
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What was the point of therapy for Watsons method? |
To modify behavior to discourage undesirable behavior and reinforce acceptable actions |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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Who was John B Watson and what did he do? |
He challenged the Freudian belief in introspection and the exploration of the unconscious |
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What did John B Watson believe? |
Mental ailments should be diagnosed by observation and treated by addressing symptoms not underlying psychological problems |
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What was the point of therapy for Watsons method? |
To modify behavior to discourage undesirable behavior and reinforce acceptable actions |
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What did it demonstrate success in? |
Treating alcoholism, drug addiction, and phobias |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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Who was John B Watson and what did he do? |
He challenged the Freudian belief in introspection and the exploration of the unconscious |
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What did John B Watson believe? |
Mental ailments should be diagnosed by observation and treated by addressing symptoms not underlying psychological problems |
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What was the point of therapy for Watsons method? |
To modify behavior to discourage undesirable behavior and reinforce acceptable actions |
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What did it demonstrate success in? |
Treating alcoholism, drug addiction, and phobias |
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What was the biggest growth in psychiatry? |
As a field of medicine |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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Who was John B Watson and what did he do? |
He challenged the Freudian belief in introspection and the exploration of the unconscious |
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What did John B Watson believe? |
Mental ailments should be diagnosed by observation and treated by addressing symptoms not underlying psychological problems |
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What was the point of therapy for Watsons method? |
To modify behavior to discourage undesirable behavior and reinforce acceptable actions |
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What did it demonstrate success in? |
Treating alcoholism, drug addiction, and phobias |
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What was the biggest growth in psychiatry? |
As a field of medicine |
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Where did mental psychiatrists work initially and where did they move to? |
Mental institutions; conventional hospitals, private practice |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation collide with? |
The rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry |
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What did the rise of anxiety and alienation and the rise of new theories of psychology and psychiatry do together? |
Helped entrench and expand important emerging fields of medicine and science |
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Who was Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung? |
Psychologists differing sharply on many points, but both helped to legitimize the idea of exploring the unconscious as a way of discovering the roots of mental problems |
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Who was John B Watson and what did he do? |
He challenged the Freudian belief in introspection and the exploration of the unconscious |
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What did John B Watson believe? |
Mental ailments should be diagnosed by observation and treated by addressing symptoms not underlying psychological problems |
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What was the point of therapy for Watsons method? |
To modify behavior to discourage undesirable behavior and reinforce acceptable actions |
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What did it demonstrate success in? |
Treating alcoholism, drug addiction, and phobias |
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What was the biggest growth in psychiatry? |
As a field of medicine |
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Where did mental psychiatrists work initially and where did they move to? |
Mental institutions; conventional hospitals, private practice |
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Psychiatry began to expand and offer services to individuals _______ |
Experiencing difficulties with everyday life |
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What emerged in the 20th century and help psychiatrists offer therapy for ordinary anxieties? |
"Dynamic" psychiatry |
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In its beginning who played a larger role in psychology and psychiatry? |
Women |
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What did John B Watson and other behavioralists begin to challenge? |
The long-held assumption that women had an instinctive capacity for motherhood and maternal affectionate was sufficient preparation for child rearing. |
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What did John B Watson claim? |
Women should rely on the advice and assistance of experts and professionals for motherhood |
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What did John B Watson claim? |
Women should rely on the advice and assistance of experts and professionals for motherhood |
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What did many women attempt to compensate through, and define it? |
"Companionate marriages" --> The idea of devoting new attention to rolled his wives and companions. Many women openly considered sexual relationships with their husbands |
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What did John B Watson claim? |
Women should rely on the advice and assistance of experts and professionals for motherhood |
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What did many women attempt to compensate through, and define it? |
"Companionate marriages" --> The idea of devoting new attention to rolled his wives and companions. Many women openly considered sexual relationships with their husbands |
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Who was Margaret Sanger? |
pioneer of the birth control movement |
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Who did Margaret Sanger began her career as a promoter of birth control devices for and why? |
Working-class women; she believed large families were among the major causes of poverty in distress in poor communities |
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Who did the flapper lifestyle have a particular impact on? |
Lower middle-class and working-class single women |
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When did the prohibition of the sale manufacture of alcohol go into effect? |
January 1920 |
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What happened within a year of prohibition, the "noble experiment?" |
It reduced drinking in most parts of the country but produced conspicuous and growing violations and organized crime flourished |
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For Protestant Americans, drinking, which they associated with the modern city and Catholic immigrants, became a symbol for what? |
The new culture they believed was displacing them |
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When was the 21st amendment passed, repealing the 18th amendment? |
1933 |
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In 1921 Congress passed an emergency immigration act. What did that act do? |
Cut immigration from 800,000 to 300,000 in any single year. |
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What did the national origins act of 1924 do? |
Banned immigration from east Asia entirely and reduced quota for European immigration |
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What Happened in 1929 to immigration laws? |
A restriction of 150,000 immigrants a year, but even half that amount was seldom permitted |
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New immigrants helped instigate the rebirth of the ___ in ____, at ___ |
Ku Klux Klan; 1915; stone mountain |
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Explain the case of Leo Frank |
1914: Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, was convicted of murdering a female employee. A mob stormed Frank's jail and lynched him. |
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What became the main concern of the KKK and how did they terrorize them? |
Catholics Jews and foreigners; public whippings, tar and feathering, arson, and lynching |
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What did Alice Paul lead? What did it do? |
The National Women's Party; attempted to fight powerlessness through its campaign for the equal rights amendment |
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Where was the largest Klan? |
Indiana |
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Define modernists and traditionalists |
Modernist: urban middle-class people attempting to adapt religion to the teachings of modern science and realities of their modern society. Fundamentalist: Provencial women fighting to preserve traditional faith and maintain centrality of religion in American life. |
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When was it made it illegal for any public school teacher in Tennessee to teach evolution? |
March 1925 |
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What is the ACLU? |
1917: American Civil Liberties Union: defends pacifist radicals and consensus objectors during World War I. Offered free council to any Tennessee educator willing to defy law and become defendant in a test case |
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Which party included prohibitionists, Klansman, and fundamentalists, on one side, and Catholics, urban workers, and immigrants on the other? |
Democrats |
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What happened at the 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York? |
A parties urban wearing attempted to win approval of planks calling for the repeal of Prohibition and denunciation of the Klan. There was a deadlock in the balloting for a presidential candidate |
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Who did urban Democrats support. And who did world Democrats support? |
Alfred E Smith; William McAdoo |
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What did Smith and McAdoo do? Who became president? |
withdrew; Calvin Coolidge |
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Who secured democratic nomination in 1928? |
Al Smith. Divided party, first democratic since civil war to not carry the entire South |
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Who was elected in 1920? |
Warren G Harding |
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What was organized as a response to the suffrage victory? |
The League of Women Voters |
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Harry Daugherty |
Attorney general |
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Albert B. Fall |
Secretary of the interior |
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Where were the scandals fall and Daugherty were involved in? |
Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California |
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Who did Coolidge run against? |
John W Davis |
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Andrew Mellon |
Secretary of the treasury, retired half the nations World War I debt |
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Who was the most prominent member of the cabinet? |
Herbert Hoover: commerce secretary |
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Define associationalism |
The concept envisioned the creation of national organizations of businessmen in particular industries. Through trade associations private entrepreneurs could stabilize industries and promote efficiency in production and marketing |
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Who was elected in 1928? |
Herbert Hoover defeating Al Smith. |
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What was passed in 1921 and a brief triumph for women activists? |
The shepherd Towner act which provided federal funds to states to establish prenatal and child healthcare programs |
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Who opposed the measure and what were their complaints? |
Alice Paul and her supporters, the American Medical Association-->it would introduce untrained outsiders into Helton-care field; it classified all women as mothers |
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Who were "debunkers?" |
A wide range of writers giving a series of savage critiques against modern America |
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Who were known debunkers? |
H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis |
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What did F Scott Fitzgerald attack in his writing? What was it called? |
American obsession with material success; the great Gatsby |
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Important American writers active in the 1920s |
Fitzgerald, Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Edna Ferber, William Faulkner, and Eugene O'Neill, and a remarkable group of African-American artists |
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African American writers in the Harlem and elsewhere |
James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Zora Neal Hurston, Claude McKay, Alain Locke |
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Who did the flapper lifestyle have a particular impact on? |
Lower middle-class and working-class single women |
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When did the prohibition of the sale manufacture of alcohol go into effect? |
January 1920 |
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What happened within a year of prohibition, the "noble experiment?" |
It reduced drinking in most parts of the country but produced conspicuous and growing violations and organized crime flourished |
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For Protestant Americans, drinking, which they associated with the modern city and Catholic immigrants, became a symbol for what? |
The new culture they believed was displacing them |
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When was the 21st amendment passed, repealing the 18th amendment? |
1933 |
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In 1921 Congress passed an emergency immigration act. What did that act do? |
Cut immigration from 800,000 to 300,000 in any single year. |
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What did the national origins act of 1924 do? |
Banned immigration from east Asia entirely and reduced quota for European immigration |
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What Happened in 1929 to immigration laws? |
A restriction of 150,000 immigrants a year, but even half that amount was seldom permitted |
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New immigrants helped instigate the rebirth of the ___ in ____, at ___ |
Ku Klux Klan; 1915; stone mountain |
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Explain the case of Leo Frank |
1914: Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Atlanta, was convicted of murdering a female employee. A mob stormed Frank's jail and lynched him. |
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What became the main concern of the KKK and how did they terrorize them? |
Catholics Jews and foreigners; public whippings, tar and feathering, arson, and lynching |
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What did Alice Paul lead? What did it do? |
The National Women's Party; attempted to fight powerlessness through its campaign for the equal rights amendment |
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Where was the largest Klan? |
Indiana |
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Define modernists and traditionalists |
Modernist: urban middle-class people attempting to adapt religion to the teachings of modern science and realities of their modern society. Fundamentalist: Provencial women fighting to preserve traditional faith and maintain centrality of religion in American life. |
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When was it made it illegal for any public school teacher in Tennessee to teach evolution? |
March 1925 |
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What is the ACLU? |
1917: American Civil Liberties Union: defends pacifist radicals and consensus objectors during World War I. Offered free council to any Tennessee educator willing to defy law and become defendant in a test case |
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Which party included prohibitionists, Klansman, and fundamentalists, on one side, and Catholics, urban workers, and immigrants on the other? |
Democrats |
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What happened at the 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York? |
A parties urban wearing attempted to win approval of planks calling for the repeal of Prohibition and denunciation of the Klan. There was a deadlock in the balloting for a presidential candidate |
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Who did urban Democrats support. And who did world Democrats support? |
Alfred E Smith; William McAdoo |
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What did Smith and McAdoo do? Who became president? |
withdrew; Calvin Coolidge |
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Who secured democratic nomination in 1928? |
Al Smith. Divided party, first democratic since civil war to not carry the entire South |
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Who was elected in 1920? |
Warren G Harding |
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What was organized as a response to the suffrage victory? |
The League of Women Voters |
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Harry Daugherty |
Attorney general |
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Albert B. Fall |
Secretary of the interior |
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Where were the scandals fall and Daugherty were involved in? |
Teapot Dome, Wyoming and Elk Hills, California |
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Who did Coolidge run against? |
John W Davis |
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Andrew Mellon |
Secretary of the treasury, retired half the nations World War I debt |
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Who was the most prominent member of the cabinet? |
Herbert Hoover: commerce secretary |
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Define associationalism |
The concept envisioned the creation of national organizations of businessmen in particular industries. Through trade associations private entrepreneurs could stabilize industries and promote efficiency in production and marketing |
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Who was elected in 1928? |
Herbert Hoover defeating Al Smith. |
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What was passed in 1921 and a brief triumph for women activists? |
The shepherd Towner act which provided federal funds to states to establish prenatal and child healthcare programs |
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Who opposed the measure and what were their complaints? |
Alice Paul and her supporters, the American Medical Association-->it would introduce untrained outsiders into Helton-care field; it classified all women as mothers |
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Who were "debunkers?" |
A wide range of writers giving a series of savage critiques against modern America |
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Who were known debunkers? |
H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis |
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What did F Scott Fitzgerald attack in his writing? What was it called? |
American obsession with material success; the great Gatsby |
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Important American writers active in the 1920s |
Fitzgerald, Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Edna Ferber, William Faulkner, and Eugene O'Neill, and a remarkable group of African-American artists |
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African American writers in the Harlem and elsewhere |
James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Zora Neal Hurston, Claude McKay, Alain Locke |
