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AmericanHistoryCh.12
American History Chapter 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Activity/ fashion taking up | Fad |
| Smugglers of illegal alchohol | Bootleggar |
| a young women that rebell against traditional ways | flapper |
| illegal places that serve illegal alchohol | speakeasy |
| buying on credit | installment buying |
| cancelation | repeal |
| execution 1927/ arressted and charged with robbery and murder | Sacco & Venzetti |
| member of Russial part led by Vladimir | Bolsheviks |
| a jazz singer | Bessie Smith |
| a popular style of msic in the 20's | jazz |
| people who oppose organized government | Anarchist |
| people who leave their own country to live in a foreign country | expatriate |
| a community outside the city | subarb |
| anti-foreign feelings | nativism |
| allows only a certain aount of people from foriegn coutries to the US | quota system |
| the banning of alchohol | prohibition |
| literal non-symbolic interpretation of the bible | fundamentalism |
| law that made prohibtion into effect | 18th amendment |
| literal artistic movement to celebrate | harelm renasscance |
| womens sufferage | 19th amendment |
| This established the maximum number of immigrants who were allowed into the United States from each foreign country | quota system |
| Although its members sharply increased as a result of the red scare and nativism, its power declined once its criminal activity and radical violence became exposed | Ku Klux Klan |
| this is a policy of abstaining from involvement in world affairs | isolationism |
| Their radical opposition to any and all forms of government led many with similar beliefs to be harassed, arrested, and deported during the red scare | anarchists |
| this is an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictator | communism |
| As Attorney General, he sent government agents out on a series of illegal raids to hunt down suspected radicals | A. Mitchell Palmer |
| As the governor of massachusetts during the boston police strike, he opposed the strikers and called out the national guard to restore order | Calvin Coolidge |
| As president of the United Mine Workers, he led the the miners on a strike that eventually resulted in a significant wage increase | John L Lewis |
| The Kellogg-Briand Pact rejected war as an instrument of national policy( T or F) | True |
| As a result of the Washington Naval Conference, Britain and France were not able to sell enough goods to pay off their war debts (T OR F) | false-because of Fardney-McCumber Tariff |
| The Dawes Plan arranged for loans to be made to Germany so that it could pay war reparations (T OR F) | true |
| The ohio gang consisted of various enemies of President Warren G Harding (T or False) | False friends |
| The Teapot Dome scandal involved the secret leasing of oil-rich lands owned by Albert B Fall to private oil companies (T or F) | false lands owned by government |
| President Harding's secretary of state was CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, who later went on to become chief justice of the supreme court (T or F) | true |
| were the 20's the right time for america | the 20's brought many positive changes-- automobile(many roads, gas stations, garages built on houses), electricity in many homes and not just in the city, many homes had electric irons and wealthy families had a electric cook top and toaster, airplane In |
| describe the 20's in one word | |
| how were the 20's a reaction to WW1 | the econony was in bad shape after the war, returning soldiers took their old jobs away from women and minorities, workers rights had been suppressed during the war causing labor strikes |
| what does military mean | |
| prejudice against foreign born people | nativism |
| a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs | isolationism |
| after WW1 there was a large demand for Europeans to emigrate to US, how many came to US in 1919? | 110,000 |
| How many immigrants came in 1920 from europe? | 430,000 |
| How many European immigrants came to US in 1921? | 805,000 |
| Why was there a growing fear of eastern europeans entering the country in the 1920's? what was this fear called? | there was fear that E european (russia) would try to take over the country with communism. A communist party was started in this country and bombs sent to the govt made people afraid of a communist take over in the country. This was called the RED SCARE |
| what group of people in the US were americans afraid of with regard to the red scare? | communists and anarchists |
| an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship | communism |
| people who oppose any form of government | anarchists |
| who fought against the red scare? who did he appoint to help and what did that person do? | US attorney general A Mitchell Palmer appointed J Edgar Hoover-they tramled people's civil rights, invadinging homes and jailing them without legal representation |
| MOM DON'T MAKE ANYMORE. MR. ADAMS GAVE US WHAT WAS GOING TO BE ON THE TEST AND I DON'T NEED THAT PACKET. | |
| lol i love you!!!!!!!! |
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