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The 1920's quest
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| National War Labor Board | helped with the rights of factory workers during WWI |
| Reason for strikes after WWI | surplus of workers |
| Who was blamed for strikes? | communists and anarchists |
| color of communism | red |
| revolution in Russia | bolshevik revolution |
| Palmer raids | combatted communism by exposing suspected communists |
| trial of Sacco and Vanzetti | two italian men sentenced to death for stealing and shooting man. no real evidence |
| _____ were believed to be responsible for communism | immigrants |
| National Origins Act | 1924- limited the number of Europeans allowed into the US |
| Great Migration | African Americans moved north |
| group known for their racial hatred | KKK |
| Marcus Garvey | a main voice of protest in Af. Am. community who inspired a "Back to Africa" movement of black pride |
| Renaissance of the Great Migration took place in | harlem, ny |
| known for jazz of the harlem renaissance | Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong |
| poet of the harlem renaissance | langston hughes |
| Scopes Trial centered in | Dayton, Tennessee |
| Scopes Trial. teacher accused of teaching.... | evolution |
| William Jennings Bryan | respected lawyer and politican who represented Tennessee in the scopes trial |
| Clarence Darrow | defended John Scopes in Scopes Trial |
| Harding's main campaign promise in 1920 election | return to normalcy |
| Washington Naval Conference led to the | Five Powers Treaty |
| Five Powers Treaty | agreement between five powerful nations to disarm their warships |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | nations gave up war as a national policy |
| Calvin Coolidge famous for saying... | the business of America is buisness |
| Henry Ford prefected the | assembly line |
| people began to purchase expensive items on... | credit |
| The biggest advancement of the 1920s economy | the growth of the stock market |
| buying stock on margin | the consumer paid only for a small percentage of the stock and the broker paid the rest |
| Black Tuesday | October 29, 1929- stock market crashed |