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| Explain the feelings and actions of people after WWI. | The people wanted things back to normal with the nation less involved in world affairs and more involved in activities at home. |
| Discuss the 1920 Election and Harding as President. | He promised to return to normalcy. He won a landslide. He passed a law limited immigration to the U.S. He had scandals in his office. He died in August 1923. |
| Appeasement | an attempt to stop complaints or reduce difficulties by making concessions. |
| Red Scare | worries about a Communits takeover. In 1919, 5,000 people were arrested because someone thought they were Communists. |
| Discuss Nativism and what this led to. | Nativism means putting the interest of nativeborn Americans of above of these immigrants. Some Americans believed that immigrants were taken jobs away from native born Americans. In 1921, Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act to reduce immigration. |
| Describe the Decade of 1920s. | The 1920s is a time of social and cultural changes. |
| Give some specific examples of how this a "Revolution" against traditional beliefs. | Jazz music, women drink drunken, smoking, cut hair like a boy, they went out in car with their boyfriends. |
| Sacco and Vinzenti | shoe repairman and fisherman, Italian immigrants who were accused of stealing and taken to the electric chair. Their trial was affected by hostility toward immigrants and fear of the men's political beliefs. |
| Discuss immigrantion policies during the 1920s. | The population grew, immigrants, and farmers moved to the cities. Many foregners were coming to "the new world". "Melting pot" or nation of immigrants. America offered them a better chance to get ahead, more opprtunities. Many people thought foreigners were terrorists or a threat. |
| What man created proganda during WWI? | President Woodrow Wilson. |
| What things led to the "Business Room" described in Section 2? | Harding and Coolidge promoted economic development at home and peace abroad. |
| What things that Ford utilized led to Cheap Autos? | The assembly line made the cars cheaper to build. |
| How did the auto change life? | It influenced where people lived, worked, and shopped, how they vacationed, and how they interacted. |
| What GM do to take business from Ford in Auto industry? | General Motors offered cars different colors, shapes, and sizes. |
| What business grew up because of the auto? | Business making steel, rubber, glass and oil for the auto grew. Jobs, building, selling, servicing, parking, and driving the new cars grew. |
| Why was Communism seen as a threat to our way of life? | Communists believed in a form of government that elminated private property and tried to share nation's wealth equally among its citizens. |
| Discuss the Scopes Trial in Tennessee. | An American legal case which forbade the teaching in any state-funded educational establishment of evolution because it contradicted the Bible. |
| Prohibition | the period between 1919 and 1933 during which the manufacture, sale and transporting of alcoholic beverages was forbidden by the 18th Amendment. |
| Bootlegging | to make, transport, or sell illegal goods especially illegally alcoholic. |
| Speakeasies | a place where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed illegally, especially formely during Prohibition. |
| "Blind Pig" | places for illegal gambling. |
| 19th Amendment | guarantees all American women the right to vote. |
| 18th Amendment | banned the manufacture, sale, and transporting of alcohol. |
| 21st Amendment | repealed the 18th Amendment. |
| Flappers | a young women of the 1920s who disdained conventions of decorum and established fashion. They cut their hair, wore skirts above their knees and painted their lips red. |
| "Great Migration" | It was the migration of thousands of African-Americans from the South to the North. African-Americans were looking to escape the problems of racism in the South and felt they could seek out better jobs and an overall better life in the North. |
| "Hero Worship" | the ancient Greek or Rome practice of worshiping a mythological hero or heroes. |
| Where did most blacks live and start a culture and artistic Revolution? Who were some of them? | The Harlem Renaissance. (New York City) Some of the writers Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen. Some of the artists were Aaron Douglas and Hale Woodruff. |
| Who were the "Lost Generation of writers and what did they write? | The Lost Generation were writers who shared Gertrude Stein sense of isolation from American culture and society. |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Sun Also Rises, Green Hills of Africa, To Have and Have Not, The Old Man and the Sea and In Our Time. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Short Stories. |
| Gertrude Stein | The Young Genuis. |
| Explain about the Rise of the "Mob" in Chicago. | Gangsters like al Capone made money for illegal alcohol. The fight to control the selling illegal alcohol led to a sharp increase in violence. |
| Discuss the video you watched "The Crime of the Century" and what you learned. | Lindbergh Kidnapping- Lucki Lindy. Fist person to fly a solo flight over the Atlantic Ocen and landed in France. His baby was kidnapped and Hauptman was accused of kidnapping the baby. |
| Calvin Coolidge | He came in the office when Harding died. He believed that "The chief business of America is business." |
| Population Shift | all of people of a particular nationality, ethnic group, religion or class lived in area. |
