Chapter 31 – Flashcards
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The movement of 1919-1920, spawned by fear of Bolshevik revolution, that resulted in the arrest and deportation of many political radicals
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red scare
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Hooded defenders of Anglo-Saxon and "Protestant" values against immigrants, Catholics, and Jews
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KKK
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Restrictive legislation of 1924 that reduced the number of newcomers to the United States and discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
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Immigration Act of 1924
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New constitutional provision, popular in the Midwest and South, that encouraged lawbreaking and gangsterism in big cities
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18th Amendment
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Term for area of the South where traditional evangelical and Fundamentalist religion remained strong
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Bible Belt
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Legal battle over teaching evolution that pitted modern science against Fundamentalist religion
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Scopes Trial
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New industry spawned by the mass-consumption economy that encouraged still more consumption
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advertising
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Henry Ford's cheap, mass produced automobile
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Model T
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Invented in 1903 and first used primarily for stunts and mail carrying
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airplane
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One of the few new consumer products of the 1920s that encouraged people to stay at home rather than pulling them away from the home and family
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radio
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Feminist Margaret Sanger's cause that contributed to changing sexual behaviors, especially for women
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birth control
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Syncopated style of music created by blacks that attained national popularity in the 1920s
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jazz
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Marcus Garvey's self-help organization that proposed leading blacks to Africa
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UNIA
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H. L. Mencken's monthly magazine that led to the literary attack on traditional moral values, the middle class, and "Puritanism"
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American Mercury
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The New York institution in which continuously rising prices and profits were fueled by speculation in the 1920s
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stock market
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U.S. attorney general who rounded up thousands of alleged Bolsheviks in the red scare of 1919-1920
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Palmer
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Italian American anarchists whose trial and execution aroused widespread protest
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Top gangster of the 1920s, eventually convicted of income-tax evasion
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Al Capone
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Leading American philosopher and proponent of "progressive education"
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Dewey
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Former presidential candidate who led the fight against evolution at the 1925 Scopes trial
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Bryan
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Mechanical genius and organizer of the mass-produced automobile industry
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Henry Ford
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A leader of the advertising industry and author of a new interpretation of Christ in The Man Nobody Knows
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Barton
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The "Poet Laureate" of Harlem and author of The Weary Blues
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Langston Huges
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Humble aviation pioneer who became a cultural hero of the 1920s
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Lindbergh
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Jamaican-born leader who enhanced African American pride despite his failed migration plans
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Garvey
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Cosmopolitan intellectual who advocated "cultural pluralism" and said America should be "not a nationality but a trans-nationality"
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Bourne
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Baltimore writer who criticized the supposedly narrow and hypocritical values of American society
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Mencken
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Minnesota-born writer whose novels were especially popular with young people in the 1920s
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Fitzgerald
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Innovative writer whose novels reflected the disillusionment of many Americans with propaganda and patriotic idealism
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Hemingway
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U. S. Treasury secretary who attempted to promote business investment by reducing taxes on the rich
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Mellon
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The trial of a Tennessee high-school biology teacher symbolizes a national conflict over values of religion and science
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1925
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Fear of the Bolshevik revolution sparks a crusade against radicals and Communists in America
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1919-1920
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A modest young man becomes a national hero by accomplishing a bold feat of aviation
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1927
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Two Italian immigrants are convicted of murder and robbery, provoking charges of prejudice against the judge and jury
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1921
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A new immigrant law tightens up earlier emergency restrictions and imposes discriminatory quotas against the "New Immigrants"
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1924
