Roaring 20s Part 1
Political system that advocates one party and state ownership of property.
What is communism?
Attorney General who acted to combat the Red Scare.
Who is Mitchell Palmer?
Soldiers retire from military and economic production returns to civilian purposes.
What is demobilization?
A withdrawal from world affairs.
What is isolationism?
Cities spreading in all directions.
What is urban sprawl?
Led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and established a state based on Communism.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Became head of the anti-radical division of the justice department which became the F.B.I.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
A return to the simpler days before progressive movement and war, the slogan of Warren G. Harding.
What is Normalcy?
Established a maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from other countries.
What is the quota system?
Enabled people to buy on credit.
What is the installment plan?
Fear that communists were taking over America.
What is the Red Scare?
People who oppose all forms of government.
Who are anarchists?
Post War Treaties following WWI.
What is the Washington Naval Conference, Four-Powers Treaty, Nine-Power treaty, and Dawes Plan?
Harding’s rowdy, poker playing friends from back home.
What is the Ohio Gang?
Production on this lowered prices.
What is the assembly line?
Racism only occurred in the South, Henry Ford invented the car, and everyone shared in the prosperity of the 20’s are seen as this.
What are misconceptions of the Roaring 20's?
Two of the most famous victims of the red scare.
Who are Sacco & Vanzetti?
Renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy and 15 countries agreed to give up war except for self-defense
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Exposed corruption in Harding’s administration.
What is the Tea Pot Dome Scandal?
People began to speculate on the stock market and do this.
What is buying on margin?
The three trends resulted from America’s desire to return to “normalcy”.
What is isolationism, nativism, and political conservatism?
Immigrants accepting poor conditions, difficulty organizing unions, ex-farmers relying on themselves, and discrimination in unions all led to this.
Why did membership in unions decline in the 1920’s?
War debt, arms control, and reconstruction of war torn countries were seen as this.
What three problems surfaced in the aftermath of World War I?
Pro-business attitude, higher tariff, lower taxes, low government interference in business are all factors for this.
What were the four causes of growth and prosperity of the 1920’s?
Use of alcohol declines, disrespect for the law, and organized crime were all seen as this.
What were the three effects of prohibition?