APUSH American Pageant Ch. 30 Comprehensive Review by Jack_Dugoni3, edited by Ashton Wong

What rebellion resulted in Communists taking over Russia and spawning a tiny Communist party in America in 1917?

Bolshevik Revolution

What did a strike in Seattle prompt a call from the mayor for federal troops to head off?

"the anarchy of Russia"

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

What did he describe the face of a Bolshevik as?

What did he claim a Bolshevik's breath would scare?

Billy Sunday;

a porcupine;

a pole cat

What was the name of the attorney general dubbed "The Fighting Quaker" for his rounding up of 6k potential communists?

What was his new nickname after a bomb diminished his will for the anti-red cause?

A. Mitchell Palmer

"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?

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

"The Buford"

"The Soviet Ark"

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

How many people did an unexplained bomb blast on Wall Street kill?

38

What was the name given to laws passed by state governments that made it unlawful to advocate social changes using violence?

How many elected members of the New York legislature were denied their seats due to their Socialist status?

criminal syndicalism laws

5

What did laborer's call for the "closed" or all-union shop as?

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

"Sovietism in disguise"

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?

What was the case regarded by liberals as?

Sacco (shoe-factory worker) and Vanzetti (fish peddler)

Electrocution

"judicial lynching"

Which three groups was the KKK proponents of?

Anglo-Saxons, "native" Americans, and Protestants

What was the nickname for klan members?

What were three types of officials in the KKK?

What were the officials classified as?

What was its peak membership?

"The Knights of the Invisible Empire"

Imperial Wizards, Grand Goblins, and King Kleagles

"kreatures"

5 million

What were the KKK's most impressive displays?

What was the principal weapon of the KKK?

What was the chief warning?

"konclaves" and flag-waving parades

bloodied lash

Blazing Cross

What were some of the rallying songs of the KKK?

"The Fiery Cross on High", "One Hundred Percent American", "The Ku Klux Klan and the Pope" (song against kissing the Pope's toe)

What was the most brutal slogan of the KKK?

"Kill the Kikes, Koons, and Katholics"

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 percent of the living people of their nationality who lived in the U.S. could enter?

What act was it replaced by?

What did the percent lower to?

What sign did these acts claim it needed?

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

3%

Immigration Act of 1924

2%

"No Vacancy"

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

1931

What rallies would erupt in Japan as a result of the immigration acts?

How did one Japanese superpatriot express their outrage?

"Hate America"

committing suicide near American embassy in Tokyo

Who were exempt from the Immigration Quota system?

Canadians and Latin Americans

Which later immigration act would cut immigration in half?

Immigration Act of 1929

Which group of people did the immigration acts affect the most?

Italians, Jews, Poles

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?

Which one of them fought for newcomers' rights to practice their ancestral customs?

Which one advocated for greater cross-fertilization among immigrants?

"cultural pluralists"

Kallen (philosopher) and Bourne (critic)

Kallen

Bourne

Who were three individuals that defended ethnic diversity, paving the way for the "multiculturalism" that would come later in the century as a result of Kallen and Bourne's influence?

John Dewey, Jane Addams, and Louis Brandeis

What act implemented the 18th amendment?

What did prohibition laws like this one allegedly make the world safe for?

Volstead Act

"hypocrisy"

What is another name for the 18th amendment?

"dry" amendment

What was an ironic toast of legislators who voted dry but were privately drinking?

"Let us strike a blow for liberty"

What did Americans prepare to permanently enter after the passing of the 18th amendment in 1919?

What was a nickname for bootleg liquor?

What did older citizens engage in to get alcohol illegally?

An "alcoholiday"

"liquid tonsillectomies"

"bar hunts"

What were "men only" corner saloons replaced by after the passage of the 18th amendment?

"speakeasies" (secret bars)

What were three slang terms for homemade liquor given by the book?

What was the hobby of making liquor with toy stills known as?

What illness did the homemade liquors produce?

"home brew", "bathtub gin", and "rotgut"

"alky cooking"

blindness

What did a legendary tippler remark prohibition was?

"a darn sight better than no liquor at all"

What was the nickname given to machine guns used to "erase" bootlegging competitors who were trying to "muscle in" on the "racket"?

"typewriters"

How many mobsters were murdered in the gang wars of the 1920s in Chicago?

What Chicago gangster was branded "Public Enemy Number One" but not convicted of murder?

What was his nickname?

What did he end up serving an eleven-year sentence for?

What activities would gangsters move into for profit as a result of his arrest?

500

Al Capone

"Scarface"

income-tax evasion

Prostitution, Gambling, Narcotics

When did Capone lead a cold-blooded massacre of 7 disarmed members of a rival gang which he could not be convicted?

St. Valentine's Day of 1929

What song did a Brooklyn newspaper make a parody of based on gang welfare in Chicago?

Star-Spangled Banner

What were honest merchants force to pay to the organized thugs so that they wouldn't ruin their life?

"protection money"

What was the nickname used for those employed by organized crime?

What was this business's estimated annual "take"?

Racketeers

$12 billion-$18 billion

What law, inspired by the abduction and murder of the infant son of famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, made interstate abduction punishable by death?

Lindbergh Law

In the 1920s, how old were young people required to remain in school until?

16 or 18

Who was one of America's few front-rank philosophers who set forth the principles of "learning by doing"?

At which Ivy League school did he spend 26 years on the faculty from 1904 to 1930?

John Dewey

Columbia University

What did Dewey believe to be as essential as the blackboard?

What did he say should be a primary goal of the teacher?

The workbench

"education for life"

What foundation launched a massive public-health program in 1909?

What affliction did it wipe out by the 1920's?

What did they increase the life expectancy of a newborn infant to by 1929?

The Rockefeller Foundation

hookworm

59 years old

What group served as the main opponent of Darwinian evolution and general scientific advances?

In what region of the country was this group especially powerful?

What state was in the heart of the region?

Fundamentalists

The Bible Belt

Tennessee

What was the name of the biology teacher from Dayton, Tennessee that was indicted for teaching evolution?

How much was the fine that was later set aside on a technicality after he was found guilty?

John T. Scopes

$100

Which former presidential candidate and Presbyterian Fundamentalist was part of the prosecution in the Scopes trial?

Who made the said prosecutor appear foolish?

How did the said prosecutor die 5 days later?

What was another name for this trial?

William Jennings Bryan

Clarence Darrow

stroke

"Monkey Trial"

What was the emphasis of Fundamentalism?

What churches were its ideas especially strong in?

literal reading of the Bible

Baptist Church and Churches of Christ (organized in 1906)

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?

How many cars did Americans own by 1930?

Rouge River plant;

30 million

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

advertising

Who was the founder of the new "profession" of advertising that was also a New York partner in a Madison Avenue firm?

What best seller did they publish which claimed that Jesus Christ was the greatest adman of all time?

Bruce Barton

"The Man Nobody Knows"

Who was a famous home-run hero that was better known than most statesmen?

What was Yankee stadium known as?

George H "Babe" Ruth

"The house that Ruth built"

What was the name of the American heavyweight champion that knocked out the French Georges Carpentier?

Where would this event take place that would be known as the first million-dollar "gate" in US history?

Jack Dempsey

Jersey City

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

"Possess today and buy tomorrow"

According to the book, what was the new Messiah?

What was its principal prophet?

machinery

auto-mobile

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

How many car companies were there in 1910?

What was the annual production of cars at the time?

69;

181,000 units

What jeer did trash automobiles have to endure from occupants of a passing carriage?

"Get a horse"

What was Ransom E. Olds nickname?

Oldsmobile

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

What sport did they play?

Frederick Taylor

Tennis

What was the nickname for Ford's Model T?

What was the price of the car in the mid-1920's?

What was another slang term for cars?

"Tin Lizzie"

$260

"flivvers"

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 was the ratio of Americans owning a motor vehicle?

1:4.9

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 by the 1920s?

What did America become a nation of due to the rise of the automobile?

bathtubs

commuters

When was did the one-millionth American die in a car accident?

Would would be the motto of the new age as a result?

1951

"the public be ramned"

What did an Indiana juvenile court judge condemn the automobile as?

"A house of prostitution on wheels"

How long did the Wright Brothers' (Orville and Wilbur) first flight last (Orville flew the plane)?

How far did the plane travel?

What was it called?

What was the date of this experiment?

What was their occupation beforehand?

12 seconds

120 feet

"The miracle at Kitty Hawk" (North Carolina)

December 17, 1903

Ohio Bicycle Repairmen

What was another name for airplanes at the time?

"flying coffins"

Which two cities were involved in the first transcontinental airmail route in 1920?

New York and San Francisco

What was the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane that he flew across the Atlantic Ocean for a $25,000 prize?

Where did the flight start and terminate?

How long was the flight?

"The Spirit of St. Louis"

New York to Paris

33 Hours and 39 Minutes

What were two of Lindbergh's nicknames?

"Lone Eagle"

"Lucky Lindy"

With the rise of the plane, what body of water was the Atlantic Ocean said to have shriveled to the size of?

The Aegean Sea (in the days of Socrates)

Who invented the wireless telegraphy?

Guglielmo Marconi (Italian)

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"

What notable genius was first part of movies while they were still being developed, marking them as flickering?

Thomas Edison

What was the first story sequence to reach the American big screen?

What was the nickname for the five-cent theaters in which it was featured?

"The Great Train Robbery"

"nickelodeons"

What feature film glorified the KKK of Reconstruction days?

Whose creation was it?

"Birth of a Nation"

D. W. Griffith

What was the first "talkie" movie?

Which white movie star appeared in blackface in?

"The Jazz Singer"

Al Jolson

What quickly became the movie capital of the world?

Hollywood

What films were used as anti-German propaganda boosting the morale of Americans during WW1?

"hang the kaiser"

Who did movie stars have a large salary than?

How much could they earn for a single motion picture?

the president

$100,000

What census revealed for the first time that most Americans lived in urban areas, as opposed to the countryside?

1920

What were two examples of "women's work" given by the book?

retail clerking and office typing

Who was the champion of the birth-control movement?

What party was begun by Alice Paul in 1923 and campaigned for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution?

Margaret Sanger

National Woman's party

What more positive group did the Fundamentalists lose ground to?

Modernists

What did one New York billboard claim that Christian Worship increased?

Efficiency

What was the name given to women who proclaimed their new social freedom in a variety of ways?

What were their lips described as?

"flappers"

a "crimson gash"

What Viennese physician argued that sexual repression was responsible for a variety of nervous and emotional ills?

Dr. Sigmund Freud

In the early days, what was a kiss the equivalent to?

proposal of marriage

What were the rather frisky teenagers of the jazz age known as?

"neckers" and "petters"

What was the era of the "flapper" known as?

"The era of wonderful nonsense"

What was one example of a jazz tune that became an instant classic?

Who wrote it?

What instrument would become the new trumpet of the new era?

"St. Louis Blues"

W. C. Handy

saxophone

Who were the black performers that gave birth to Jazz music?

Handy, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Louis Armstrong, Joe "King" Oliver

Whose band was a notable all-white jazz group?

Paul Whiteman

What New York neighborhood became one of the largest black communities in the world?

Who were two notable figures that emerged from this neighborhood?

Harlem

Hughes and Garvey

What was Langston Hughes' first volume of verses?

"The Weary Blues"

What group was founded by Marcus Garvey to promote the resettlement of American blacks in their own "African homeland"?

Where was Garvey himself born?

What was he convicted and deported for in 1927?

United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Jamaica

Mail fraud

What company, sponsored by the UNIA, helped to keep blacks' dollars in black pockets?

Black Star Line Steamship Company

What movement would arise as a result of the inspiration Garvey set for newcomers to gain self-confidence and self-reliance?

Nation of Islam (Black Muslim) movement