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Postwar WW1
AP US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Roaring twenties | new technologies, new consumer products, booming economy |
| red scare | promotion of fear or the potential rise of communism |
| palmer raids | locked up anyone the suspected to be communist |
| Result of red scare | palmer raids, cut back on freedom of speech |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | accused of murdering a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard. They were Italians, atheists, anarchists, and draft dodgers, and the courts were prejudiced against them. |
| New clan reemerges | Klu Klux Klan comes back bigger than before, anti everything |
| why does kkk fail | It was stopped not by the exposure of its horrible racism, but bc of its money fraud. |
| Emergency Quota Act | restricted Europeans to only 3% of their nationality from the US was allowed |
| 1924 Immigration Act | changed the emergency quota act from 3% to 2% because they wanted to favor northern Europeans (old immigrants) and it closed the door to Japanese |
| speakeasies | small saloons people went to go drink during prohibition |
| How did prohibition lead to inc crime | Police, judges were bribed, violence broke out between gangs |
| Al Scarface Capone | murderous alcohol distributor, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Capone was finally caught for tax evasion. |
| Lindbergh baby incident | led to Lindbergh Law,death penalty to certain cases of interstate abduction |
| America solves production and consumption problem | advertising, which used persuasion, ploy, seduction, and sex appeal to sell merchandise |
| Buying on credit | buy now pay later, many went into debt weakening the economy |
| Birth of a Nation | Film the glorified the kkk and put down blacks |
| How was the film industry used in WW1 | used for anti-German propaganda, help sell bonds, and boost moral |
| Harlem Renaissance | Literature movement (poetry) among the blacks |
| lost generation | us writers moved to Europe, because of more cultural freedom |
| court packing scheme | FDR wanted to add a member to the Supreme Court for every member over 70, Congress felt they were losing power, saw it as dictatorship |
| Unemployment during FDR term | went from 25% to 15% still bad, but better |
| Roosevelt Recession | social security taxes, taking a toll on people |
| FDR taking on Keynesian philosophy | better the economy by planned deficit spending. |
| how to humans contribute to dustbowl | dry farming techniques |
| okies and arkies | Oklahoman and Arkansans went to Southern Cali |
| Grapes of Wrath | book portraying peoples lives in the Dust Bowl |
| Indian Reorganization Act | encouraged tribes to have self-government and preserve their culture, many didn't like it felt they were being put on display |
| Wager/National Labor Relations Act | right of unions to organize and to collectively bargain with management |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | government camps, reforestation, firefight, flood, control, and swamp drainage |
| Huey Long "Share the Wealth" | Wanted to give every family 5000 by taxing the rich |
| Work Progress Program | Employment on building public buildings, bridges and roads |
| National Recovery Administration | Assisted industry, labor, and the unemployed. Wanted max hours, min wages, and more rights for labor union members,the right to choose their own reps in bargaining. |
| Scheter Case | demined nra as unconstitutional because ethey could only regulate bug business not small. |
| Public Work Association | industry recovery and unemployment relief, build public buildings/roads |
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