women
prohibition
monkey trial
African Americans
red scare
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What were women in 1920s called that dressed and behaved in a radical way?
Flappers
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What was the loophole in prohibition?
The consumption of alcohol was not illegal but selling and transporting it was
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This trial highlighted the division between what in the USA?
urban that believed in Darwin’s theory of evolution while rural disagreed
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What was Jim Crow law?
Segregation in southern states
meaning African Americans were not allowed to use the same of anything as white people
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What did many Americans view strikes as at the time?
Sign of communism and a threat of a working class revolution
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what where positive changes for women in the 1920s?
During the war many women had the chance to enter the work place, increasing employment 📈📈📈
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What was the name for making alcohol at home? Which was considered a fire hazard
Moonshine
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How did fundamentalist feel about Darwin’s theory of evolution?
Felt it was another way to undermine traditional values
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What was lynching?
A person alleged to have committed crime who was most commonly black, murdered by a group of people
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What were the Palmer raids?
Aim was to deport radical communists and anarchists
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Did all women experience the boom? 💥
No, women in rural areas did not experience the boom due to low rates of employment 📉
small towns disapproved of some advances
so a lot of women went back to being housewives
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What type of crime began within prohibition?
Gangs, bootleggers and corrupt law enforcers
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Why was John scopes ( the biology teacher who got arrested ) sent to trial for?
deliberately breaking the law by teaching the theory of evolution.
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What was the KKK?
Ku Klux Klan
secret society that believed African Americans were a threat
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What kick started the red scare ?
Russian revolution caused concern about communism as well as working class revolutions
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What social habits changed for women? 🤔
Clothes: dresses up to knee level🫢, lightweight dresses were fashionable
hair: shorter and makeup more popular
women smoked in public
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What did bootleggers do?
Supplied illegal alcohol, and many organized themselves in to gangs
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Was he found guilty or innocent by the end of the trial?
Guilty!
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How did the kkk gain popularity?
-hit film “the birth of nations”
- growing fear for African Americans and immigrants
- 10$ membership so was cheaper
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What was the Sacco and Vanzetti case?
Two Italians were arrested by suspicions of robbery and murder
however the allegations were due to their anarchies believes
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Situation before ww1
Restrictive clothes
natural, not makeup
avoid sport
Could not vote
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What was Al Capone downfall?
Valentine’s Day massacre of 1929.
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Who were the fundamentalist?
Those with a literal interpretation of the Bible
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Where Sacco and Vanzetti trialed fairly?
The court had prejudice and based their verdict on Sacco and Vanzetti being italian immigrants who where anarchists