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What is a “red”? Why were they feared in the 1920’s?
someone with communist sympathies, connection with Russian Revolution
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Why were recent immigrants often portrayed as political
agitators in the 1920s?
Usually members of working class, many had radical
beliefs (anarchists, socialists, etc.)
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Identify two examples of immigration restriction
during the 1920s.
The quota system (set limits on # of imms from each country), 1923 Japanese
Exclusion Act
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Why was there a wave of strikes in 1919? How did
employers respond?
Workers wanted to gain what they had missed out on
during WWI, employers called them revolutionaries and
Communists
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What were the primary issues that workers were
striking for?
Shorter hours, five day work week, living wage
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What group wanted to form “one big union” to fight
against the “employment class”?
Industrial Workers of the World or the “Wobblies”
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Whose trial was a clear example of anti-immigrant
sentiment? Who took up the cause of their innocence?
Sacco & Vanzetti, many celebrities and
intellectuals
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Identify two examples of anti-immigrant sentiment
from the twenties.
Sacco & Vanzetti, Al Smith, KKK, quotas & restrictions
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What group worked to oppress everybody who was not a White Protestant? Why
did this group grow in the 1920’s?
KKK, tension in cities between poor whites and
blacks and immigrants
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What Attorney General started the “Red Scare”?
Why?
Mitchell Palmer, thought fighting Communism would help advance his political
career
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What legal organization was formed in response to the
Palmer Raids? Name a leading member of this
organization.
ACLU, Clarence Darrow
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List three characteristics of life in rural America in the
1920s.
cultural homogeneity, religious fundamentalism, farming, traditional values, country music & ice cream socials,
tough economic times
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Identify three characteristics of urban America in the
1920’s.
cultural diversity, new immigrants, religious
diversity, speakeasies & jazz, manufacturing, booming
economic times
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What the basis of the Christian Fundamentalist movement?
Name a well known fundamentalist preacher of the
1920s.
a literal interpretation of the Bible, Billy Sunday or
Aimee Semple McPherson
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What was the charge in the Scopes’ Monkey Trial? What
did the trial represent?
teaching evolution, clash between rural (esp.
fundamentalist) and urban values
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What encouraged consumption of all kinds of new goods in the twenties?
new marketing techniques (advertising, installment
plans, mail order catalogs, etc.)
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Why were so many Americans in a hurry to get rich quick in the 1920’s? What two areas did they
invest in to accomplish this?
new American dream defined by possessions, stock market and real
estate
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What is “buying on the margin”?
taking a loan on profits existing stock to buy more
stock
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Why is buying on the margin a problem?
market crashes, stocks lose their value, and nobody can pay back their loans
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Why were so many farmers struggling to make ends meet during the 1920s?
Overproduction (still producing at WWI levels) led to low crop
prices, and many were carrying debt from new equipment
purchases
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What happened to all the new manufacturing capacity that had been built up producing war materials during WWI?
It transitioned to producing new consumer goods (appliances, clothing,
cosmetics, etc.)
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List two new electronic conveniences of the 1920s.
vacuum cleaner, washing machine, radio,
refrigerator, toaster
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What were the two big auto manufacturers in the 1920s?
Ford & General Motors
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How did the automobile change American life?
demand for roads, faster transportation, closed
distances, greater contact
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Why were Republican Presidents like Harding and Coolidge so popular in the
1920’s?
isolationist and pro-business
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Identify 2 ways Harding’s tenure was scandalous.
womanizer, seized alcohol at poker parties,
embezzlement by cabinet members, Tea Pot Dome
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Who took over after Harding died & cleaned up after the
scandals?
Coolidge
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Describe Coolidge’s business philosophy.
hands off, pro-ownership
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What kept Al Smith from winning the 1928
Presidential election?
urban, new immigrant, Roman Catholic
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How many farmers lost their farms in the ‘20s? What institutions lost a lot of
money as a result?
1/2 million, the banks
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What amendment made alcohol illegal? How
successful was it in reducing consumption of alcohol?
18th, not very
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Who took over distribution of alcohol during prohibition?
organized crime (bootleggers)
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Identify two things that helped “liberate” America in
the ‘20s.
Jazz, Radio, Movies, Literature of the Lost
Generation, Automobiles
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Name two ways women established new
independent attitudes in the 20s.
Bobbing Hair, wearing shorter skirts, moving out on their own, voting, rejecting the sexual double standard
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What amendment gave women the right to vote? Did the votes of women significantly change the
American political scene?
19th, no
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Name two types of jobs commonly held by middle
class women.
nursing, teaching, higher level clerical
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Name 2 big athletes of the Twenties.
Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bill Tilden, Jack Dempsey,
Gertrude Elderle, Bobby Jones
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Name two famous entertainers of the ‘20s.
Charlie Chaplin, Gillespie, Clara Bo, Valentino, Al
Jolson, Paul Robeson, Mills
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Name two types of jobs commonly held by lower
class women.
factory, lower clerical, janitorial
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
the flourishing growth of the arts in Harlem in the
1920’s
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Name 2 authors that were part of the Harlem
Renaissance.
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay
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Why was the Harlem Renaissance most
significant?
Was the first time Blacks were able to exert major influence
over American culture, gave a voice to the Black experience
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Name two writers that were part of the “Lost
Generation”. Why were they lost?
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, H.L. Mencken; disillusioned
by destruction of WWI
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Name one of the most influential architects of the
1920’s.
Louis Sullivan & Frank Lloyd Wright