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| STUDY SET 11.01.21 | Modern US History Exam 2 |
| ISOLATIONISM? | a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. |
| WHAT ARE SOME EVENTS THAT SHAPED THE 20'S? | -the league of nations was created -women gained the right to vote in 1920 -the constitution was amended twice -America had a de-facto woman president (Eleanor Roosevelt) -the KKK reformed -Ponzi Scheme -Mass Media's Birth |
| SPANISH FLU PANDEMIC? | Spanish flu, also known as the Great Influenza epidemic or the 1918 influenza pandemic, was an exceptionally deadly global influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus |
| ANTI-IMMIGRATION IN THE 1920's | characterized by or expressing opposition to or hostility toward immigrants State and local politicians have used widespread public opposition to immigration to justify new anti-immigrant legislation. |
| RED SCARE? | A Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. ... The name refers to the red flag as a common symbol of communism. |
| WHAT IS THE AMERICAN LEGION? | The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization. Focusing on service to veterans, servicemembers and communities, the Legion evolved from a group of war-weary veterans of World War I into one of the most influential nonprofit groups in the United States. |
| YOU"RE DOING GREAT! | keep going. |
| SACCO AND VANZETTI? | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially accused of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. |
| REVIVAL OF THE KKK | The Ku Klux Klan first arose in the South during the Reconstruction Era, but experienced a resurgence in the period immediately following the end of the First World War. Although most of the KKK’s savagery was aimed at African Americans, their hatred extended to immigrants, Catholics, Jews, liberals, and progressives. |
| IMMIGRATION ACT of 1924 (quota system) | The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. |
| BLACK NATIONALISM | Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association of the 1910s and 1920s was the most powerful black nationalist movement to date, claiming millions of members. |
| HARLEM RENAISSANCE | The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. |
| PROHIBITION | The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors–ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition. |
| SPEAKEASIES | A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an illicit establishment that sells alcoholic beverages, or a retro style bar that replicates aspects of historical speakeasies. Speakeasy bars came into prominence in the United States during the Prohibition era (1920–1933, longer in some states). |
| AL CAPONE | Alphonse Gabriel Capone, sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as a crime boss ended when he went to prison at the age of 33. |
| "RETURN TO NORMALCY" | "Return to normalcy" was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. It evoked a return to the way of life before World War I, the First Red Scare, and the Spanish flu pandemic. |
| TAX AND SPENDING CUTS | Tax rates were slashed dramatically during the 1920s, dropping from over 70 percent to less than 25 percent. ... Revenues rose from $719 million in 1921 to $1164 million in 1928, an increase of more than 61 percent |
| LAISSEZ FAIRE POLITICS | the less the government is involved in the economy, the better off business will be, and by extension, society as a whole. |
| HIGH EMPLOYMENT | In the 1920s, men worked in burgeoning industries such as automobile manufacturing. During this decade, job opportunities for women expanded, with women working as typists, secretaries, nurses, and teachers. Even so, professional roles such as doctors and lawyers remained almost exclusively reserved for men |
| CONSUMER SOCIETY | a society in which the buying and selling of goods and services is the most important social and economic activity. |
| HENRY FORD | Henry Ford was an American industrialist, business magnate, and founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. |
| ALMOST THERE! | keep going |
| MODEL T FORD | The Model T is Ford's universal car that put the world on wheels. The vehicle was one of the first mass production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve his aim of manufacturing the universal car. The Model T was manufactured on the Ford Motor Company's moving assembly line at Ford's revolutionary Highland Park Plant |
| PEOPLE"S CAPITALISM | "People's capitalism" was an American propaganda meme popularized in the mid-1950s as a name for the American economic system by the Ad Council's Theodore Repplier. |
| CELEBRITY WORSHIP | It was during the The Roaring 20s that the first real celebrities began to appear, with the ever increasing popularity of cinema having a huge role to play. Sports also caused this. (BABE RUTH) |
| CHARLES LINDBERGH | Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making the first nonstop flight from New York City to Paris on May 20–21, 1927 |
| THE SPIRIT OF ST . LOUIS | The Spirit of St. Louis is the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane that was flown by Charles Lindbergh on May 20–21, 1927, on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris, France, for which Lindbergh won the $25,000 Orteig Prize. |
| WHY WAS THE 1920's A HARD TIME FOR FARMERS? | Years of plowing and planting left soil depleted and weak. As a result, clouds of dust fell like brown snow over the Great Plains. Farmers faced tough times. Much of the Roaring '20s was a continual cycle of debt for the American farmer, stemming from falling farm prices and the need to purchase expensive machinery |
| FUNDEMENTALISM vs. MODERNISM | Fundamentalism emphasizes authority and fixed creeds in religion; modernism emphasizes freedom and progress in religious thought. |
| SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL | In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. |
| THE LOST GENERATION | The Lost Generation was the social generational cohort that was in early adulthood during World War I. "Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" spirit of many of the war's survivors in the early postwar period. |
| FLAPPPERS | Flappers were a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. |
| VALENTINO | On May 6, 1895, Rudolph Valentino was born. The Italian actor became one of the great stars of silent film, a sex symbol who frequently struggled against his own “Latin lover” image. |
| THATS ALL FOR THIS SECTION! | you did it! |
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