APUSH Unit 7.1

What was the red scare

A fear of communist Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution

Who was blamed for starting strikes to disrupt capitalism

The Russians

What led to a campaign against the communists

A series of bomb explosions including one against Americas attorney general Mitchell Palmer's house

Palmer deported 249 Russian immigrants without just cause aboard what ship

The Buford or Soviet Ark

An explosion in 1920 killed 38 Americans where

Wall Street

What act in 1924 was passed to reduce immigration from South and Eastern Europe

The National Origins Act

Who were subject to increasing discrimination

Jews

What two Italian anarchist immigrants were charged with murder and robbery

Sacco and Vanzetti

Sacco and Vanzetti were executed because of

Their beliefs and nationality

What was changing with the relationship between the sexes

It was becoming more relaxed

What was a flapper

A young single woman that wore makeup and short skirts, drank, had short hair, drove and smoked

Who opened the first birth control clinic, and was against immigration

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger believed in Eugenics and was a pen pal with

Adolf Hitler

What happened to most women's rights activists when they achieved the vote

They lost interest in agitating for change

Who headed a campaign for an equal rights amendment

Alice Paul

What silent film by DW Griffith portrayed the KKK as saviors and blacks as beasts

The Birth of a Nation 1915

What did Wilson say about The Birth of a Nation

It was sad but true

Who was the greatest silent film star of the age

Charlie Chaplin

What was the first major motion picture with sound

The Jazz Singer by the Warner brothers 1927

What handsome Italian movie star helped temper feelings against Italians

Rudolph Valentino

What music did youths listen to to rebel against their elders

Jazz

What became the symbol for new modern city culture

Jazz

The radio was invented before WWI by

Guglielmo Marconi

In 1920, the first commercial station began in

Pittsburg

How did the radio standardize Americans

Everyone heard the same news at exactly the same time

Where as the car scattered people the radio

Drew them back home

How did the radio effect politicians

Politicians must now be gifted spokesmen

What president was the best on the radio

FDR

What was the Black Sox scandal of 1919

The white sox threw the World Series

Who was the most popular baseball player

Babe Ruth

What allowed sports fans to better follow their teams

The radio

Who was the greatest athlete of the 20th century

Jim Thorpe

What were Jim Thorpe's accomplishments

Won the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics, and played for the MLB and NFL

What was fundamentalism

A movement emphasizing a literal interpretation of the bible to be key in Christian life and teaching

Who were leading revivalists of the 20s that preached the fundamentalist message over the radio

Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson

What modern believe challenged creationism

Evolution

Tennessee was one of 5 southern states that prohibited by law the teaching of

Evolution

What biology teacher challenged Tennessee law and taught evolution

John Thomas Scopes

What was so important about the Scopes Trial

It was a case between old and new beliefs that would determine the direction of the country

Who defended Scopes

Clarence Darrow

Who was the prosecutor in the Scopes trial

William Jennings Bryan

Who won the Scopes trial

Bryan and the old creationist beliefs

What was the 18th amendment passed in 1919 ( effective in 1920)

It prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol

_____ areas tended to be wet or anti prohibition

Urban

_____ areas tended to be dry or pro-prohibition

Rural

Large business/factory owners such as Carnegie and Ford tended to be wet or dry?

Dry

Why was prohibition ineffective

Enforcement was understaffed, underpaid, and susceptible to bribes

What special force was implemented to enforce prohibition

The untouchables

What president illegally served his guests alcohol

President Harding

What president stopped at the Belgian embassy to technically legally drink

Herbert Hoover

Did most republicans and southern democrats support prohibition

Yes

What type of people called for the repeal of prohibition

Northern democrats( Irish and German immigrants)

When and how was the 18th amendment repealed

With the 21st amendment in 1933

The KKK was a _______ group

Reactionary

What is a reactionary group

A group that comes about because of circumstances that they don't like

What was the cause of the first KKK

The freedom of blacks

What was the cause of the second KKK

Immigrants

Who founded the second KKK in 1915

William J Simmons a former Methodist preacher

Who did the second KKK target

Blacks, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants

The second Klan used _____ and _____ at its rallies just like the first Klan

Christianity and patriotism

How did the KKK cause it's own decline

Rival factions argued over money and leading klansman David Stephenson brutally murdered Madge Oberholtzer

What was the literary movement in the 1920s like

It reflected the disillusionment of American society

What was the lost generation

The generation of youth that were physically or mentally wounded from the war, as well as crushed by the repressive spirit of the age

Who is responsible for the term the lost generation

Gertrude Stein

Who famously wrote The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

Who wrote The Sun Also Rises, and A Farwell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

Blacks tended to settle in impoverished urban neighborhoods called

Ghettos

Where was the largest African American community

Harlem, NY

What was de facto segregation, which was present in the north

It meant fact of life and was based on economics

What was de jure segregation, which was present in the south

Legislative segregation( Jim Crow laws)

What is it called when whites move out of cities and leave behind impoverished blacks

White flight

Where were race riots more common

The urban north

Where was lynching more common

The rural south

Why was the north concerned with the great migration

They worried that blacks would take up jobs and housing

How did the East St Louis riot lead whites to hate the black presence even more

The blacks crushed the strike by serving as strike breakers

Where did the worst race riot of 1919 take place

Chicago

How did the 1919 riot in Chicago start

A black kid swam in a whites only area and so he was stoned to death

How was the 1921 riot in Tulsa Illinois started

A white girl claimed a black youth raped her

Who believed in black pride and had a vision called Back to Africa

Marcus Garvey

What was the Black Star and why was Garvey sent to jail

Garvey's bankrupt steamship line, he was convicted of defrauding investors

Who did Garvey also receive money from

KKK

Marcus Garvey believed in ______ independence

Economic

What/where was an explosion of African American culture occur

Harlem Renaissance

What popular music was created by blacks

Jazz

Who was the most famous jazz artist

Louis Armstrong

What two decades were the most prosperous

20's and 50's

Who perfected the moving assembly line which speeded production and reduced costs

Henry Ford

What is Taylorism, developed by Frederick W. Taylor

A system in which the fastest workers time became the new standard

What did Taylorism lead to

Overproduction, the Great Depression

What invention made life more mobile and connected

The automobile

The automobile industry was an economic______ and economic______

Multiplier and indicator

Why was the auto industry an economic multiplier

It creates thousands of jobs

What is an economic indicator

Shows how well the country is doing

When was the model T introduced

1908

What did Ford do as a result of jobs becoming more boring and fatiguing

He doubled the daily wage to 5 dollars

Who is the only American mentioned in Hitler's Mein Kampf

Henry ford

When did Orville and Wilber first fly at kitty hawk

1903

What event developed the use of airplanes for air mail

WWI

What event developed the commercial airplane

WWII

Who flew non stop from New York to Paris and became an American hero

Charles Lindbergh or Lucky Lindy