APUSH American Pageant Ch. 30 Comprehensive Review

What rebellion resulted in Communists taking over Russia in 1917?

Bolshevik Revolution

What was the name of the evangelist famous for his hatred towards Bolsheviks?

Billy Sunday

What was the name of the attorney general dubbed "The Fighting Quaker" for his rounding up of potential communist? What was his new nickname after a bomb diminished his will for the anti-red cause?

A. Mitchell Palmer

"The Quaking Fighter"

What was the name of the ship that deported 249 alleged alien communists to the "workers' paradise" of Russia? What was it nicknamed?

"The Buford"

"The Soviet Ark"

What was one communist deportee's motto for the Reds (communists)?

"Ship or shoot" (S.O.S.)

What was the name given to laws passed by state governments as a result of anti-red hysteria? How many elected members of the New York legislature were denied their seats due to their Socialist status?

criminal syndicalism laws

5

What did Conservative employers hail their antiunion campaign for the "open" shop as?

The American Plan

Who were the two Italian atheists convicted of the murder of a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard? After the case dragged on for 6 years, how were they killed?

Sacco and Vanzetti

Electrocution

Which three groups was the KKK proponents of? What was the nickname for klan members?

Anglo-Saxons, "native" Americans, and Protestants

"The Knights of the Invisible Empire"

What were three types of officials in the KKK? What was its peak membership?

Imperial Wizards, Grand Goblins, and King Kleagles

5 million

What was the initiation fee for the KKK? How much of it went to local organizers as an incentive to recruit?

$10

$4

What did the "one-hundred percent Americans" claim that Europe was vomiting on America? (It's a part of the poem at the base of the statue.)

"the wretched refuse of its teeming shore"

How did Congress plug the breach of immigration first? What act was it replaced by?

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Immigration Act of 1924

In what year did more foreigners leave the country than arrive?

1931

What group criticized the idea that an American "melting pot" would eliminate ethnic differences? What two intellectuals championed alternative conceptions of the immigrant role in society?

"cultural pluralists"

Kallen and Bourne

Who were three individuals that defended ethnic diversity, paving the way for the "multiculturalism" that would come later in the century?

John Dewey, Jane Addams, and Louis Brandeis

What foundation launched a massive public-health program in 1909? What affliction did it wipe out by the 1920's?

The Rockefeller Foundation

hookworm

What was the name of the Treasury Secretary whose tax policies favored the rapid expansion of capitalist investment?

Andrew Mellon

At which of Henry Ford's car factories did a finished automobile emerge every 10 seconds?

Rouge River

What new arm of American commerce emerged in response to the need to find mass markets for automobiles?

advertising

What New Yorker wrote "The Man Nobody Knows", which claimed that Jesus Christ was the greatest adman of all time?

Bruce Barton

What was Yankee stadium known as?

"The house that Ruth built"

What was the name of the American heavyweight champion that knocked out the French Georges Carpentier at Jersey City? (This was the first million-dollar "gate" in US history)

Jack Dempsey

What was the message directed at consumers that encouraged buying on credit?

"Possess today and buy tomorrow"

What two American promoters largely developed the infant automobile industry? What city became the motorcar capital of the world?

Henry Ford and Ransom Olds

Detroit

Who was the "Father of Scientific Management" who sought to eliminate wasted motion?

Frederick Taylor

What was a nickname for Henry Ford? What did he once testify in relation to history? What became the name for the moving assembly line once he mastered it?

The "Automobile Wizard"

"History is bunk"

Fordism

What three states yielded large amounts of oil? What industry was severely hurt by the rise of the automobile?

California, Texas, and Oklahoma

The railroad industry

What common household appliance did Americans own less of than cars? What did America become a nation of due to the rise of the automobile?

bathtubs

commuters

Who invented the wireless telegraph?

Guglielmo Marconi

What Pittsburgh radio station broadcast the news of Harding's landslide victory?

KDKA

What was a perennial favorite radio show of the early days of radio? What were two programs who were sponsored by brand-name products?

"Amos 'n' Andy"

"A&P Gypsies" and "Eveready Hour"

How much money did Secretary Mellon reduce the national debt by?

$10 billion