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| What was the result of the red scare? | nationwide crusade against those who Americans believed may have been spies for Russia.
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| What was criminal syndicalism laws? | made the advocacy of violence to secure social change unlawful.
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| who were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti? | men convicted in 1921 for the murder of a Massachusetts paymaker and his guard.
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| what was the conflict in their trial? | the judge and jury were prejudiced against them because their were Italian, atheist, anarchist and draft dodgers.
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| how were the men exocuted? | electrocution
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| What was the Ku Klux Klan doing in this time? | (Knights of the Invisible Empire), they were growing rapidly esp. in the midwest and south with 5million members
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| what were they against in this time? | foreigners, Catholics, blacks, Jews, pacifists, Communists, internationalists, evolutionists, bootleggers, gamblers, adulterers, and the use of birth control.
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| why did the KKK collapse? | a congressional investigation exposed the internal embezzlings of officials.
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| what was the emergency quota act of 1921? the immigration act of 1924? | newcomers from Europe were given a definite quota which was 3% of the people of the number living in the Us in 1910.
cut quotas from 3% to 2% , japanes were outlawed completely
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| what did the 18th amendment do? | banned alcohol.
supported by churches and women.
popular in the south
speakeasies became important places
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| What was the Lindbergh Law? | After the son of Charles A. Lindbergh was kidnapped for ransom and murdered, made interstate abduction in certain circumstances a death-penalty offense.
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| Who helped with education in the 1920s? | John Dewey
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| What was the punishment for teaching evolution at this time? | One man, John Scopes, was charged $100.
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| What mass-consumption items/things became popular? | advertisements, sports and buying on credit became wide spread
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| Who created the model-T? | Henry Ford
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| What industry boomed at this time? | automobile so in turn gas and petroleum.
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| Who were the first men to fly in an airplane? | Orville and Wilbur Wright on December 17, 1903.
12 seconds and 120 feet
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| Who was the first man to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean? | Charles A. Lindberg in 1927
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| Who invented the telegraph? | Guglielmo Marconi
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| What advance was made in radio in the 1920s? | the first voice-carrying radio broadcasts reached audiences
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| When was the 'true birth' of the motion picture | 1903 with the release of the first story sequence: The Great Train Robbery
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| what were flappers? | women who cut their hair, wore short skirts, smoke drank and even drove.
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| What were some propaganda movements through literature at this time? | Mencken- American Mercury monthly.
Fitzgerald- This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Great Gatsby (1925).
Hemingway- The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Lewis- Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922).
Anderson- Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
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| what was the stock market called at this time? | Wall Street's Big Bull Market
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