Chapter 18
What were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti charged with, and convicted of?
Robbery and murder.
How did the growth of the automobile industry after World War I change the United States economy?
It stimulated the development of other new industries.
What would a study of the "flappers" during the 1920s in the United States indicate?
Some women rejected traditional restrictions.
Who said this statement?
"I will propose to Congress a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reforms."
President Roosevelt
What is the name of Jack Sparrows ship?
The Black Pearl
Americans born in or "native" to the United States -- sought to restrict/increase immigration. The earliest immigration laws tended to favor immigrants coming from Eastern Europe/Northern Europe.
Restrict & Eastern Europe.
Two reasons for the prosperity
Installment buying and buying on credit.
Demand for automobiles increased.
The migration of African Americans to the North during and following World War I was mainly a result of the...
Availability of new factory jobs.
Many unemployed and homeless families were forced to live in shanty towns, called...
"Hoovervilles"
What is Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem?
The Raven
What effect did this statement have on many people in the United States?
"The world is on the verge of a new era... Capitalism is in collapse. The workers of the world are seeing a new light and securing courage."
The threat of communism would spread to the United States.
Two changes in the American life during the 1920s.
Growth of radio and magazine advertising.
The increase in buying through catalogs.
What was an important result of Prohibition during the 1920s?
Racial prejudice increased.
Problems facing American farmers during 1920s?
Overproduction of farm crops.
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Day and night
Rise of intolerance in the pose-reconstruction era.
In 1919, race riots in Chicago saw white mobs invade black neighborhoods and attack African-American residents. What's the term?
"Red Summer"
"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, after the simplest designs that engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one..."
which innovation helped Ford to realize this vision?
Which pair of events illustrates a cause-and-effect relationship?
Lost Generation-->Harlem renaissance
Great Migration-->Rebirth of the KKK
Red Scare-->Demand for increased immigration
Use of conveyor belts-->Increased productivity for industry
Use of conveyor belts-->Increased productivity for industry.
Who said this statement?
"I believe in limited role for government and worry that excessive federal intervention poses a threat to capitalism and individualism. I feel that assistance should be handled on a local, voluntary basis."
President Hoover
How did Emily Dickinson die?
Heart Failure induced by severe hypertension (high blood pressure).
Rise of intolerance in the post-reconstruction era.
U.S. Attorney General rounds up thousands of immigrants to deport them for plotting to overthrow government. What's the term?
Palmer Raids
During the 1920s, many important technological innovations in communication, transportation, and working conditions in industry led to many changes in the social and cultural life in the United States.
Which two changes supports the claims?
Automobiles came into widespread use in the nation, Extensive viewing of television by Americans, Widespread use of new household electric appliances, Fall in the popularity of radio and movies, and Rise of the Ku Klux Klan.
Automobiles came into widespread use in the nation.
Widespread use of new household electric appliances.
Result of this is a conflict of new thinking and view of traditional values.
John Scopes/"monkey trial" (1925).
Resolve of the Great Depression to provide federal aid to various sectors of the American economy?
New Deal
This castle was famous for its "stone" and was built by Cormac McCarthy around 1446.
Blarney Castle