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What Happened?
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Forign Affairs
Fish Soup
100
Black Friday
What was the worst single even of the great stock market crash of 1929?
100
After WWII, American writers did this for American literature....
What is gave American literature new life, imaginativeness, and artistic quality?
100
Ownership of the major means of production by the national government.
What is Nationalization?
100
Spawned a communist party in America
What is the Bolshevik revolution of 1917?
100
the election of Hoover over Smith in 1928 seemed to represent a victory of...
What is Small business over the ideas of big business and government?
200
Weak willed president whos easyy going ways opened the door to widespread corruption in his adminstration.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
200
Attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition.
What is H.L. Mencken's American Mercury?
200
A heavily armored battleship with Large batteries of 12 guns.
What is a Dreadnought?
200
Resulted in a nationwide crusade against those whose Americanism was suspect
What is The "red scare" of 1919-1920?
200
Overexpansion of production and credit beyond the ability to pay for them.
What is one important cause of the great stock market crash of 1929?
300
Prostitution, gambling, narcotics, and kidnapping for ransom.
What is Gangsters moving into profitable and illicit activities?
300
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is This Side of Paradise in 1920 and The Great Gatsby in 1925
300
An associate or partner of a criminal who shares some degree of guilt.
What is an Accomplice?
300
New Immigration" of the 1920s
What caused Congress to pass the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
300
True or False: the Republican administration of the 1920s believed in strick enforcement of antitrust laws to maintain strong business competition.
What is True?
400
Banned Alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
400
He responded to propaganda and the overblown appeal to patriotism. He wrote of disillusioned, spiritually numb American expatriates in Europe in The Sun Also Rises (1926).
Who was Earnest Hemingway?
400
Compensation by a defeated nation for damge done to civilians and their property during war.
What is Reparations?
400
Replaced the Quota Act of 1921, cutting quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2%.
What is The Immigration Act of 1924?
400
The assembly line methods help produce...
What is mass production of products?
500
Antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, antipacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolutionist, antibootlegger, antigambling, antiadultery, and anti-birth control. It was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-"native" American, and pro-Protestant.
What is The Ku Klux Klan?
500
Also became popular as materialism and functionalism increased.
What is Architecture?
500
IN economics, the spending or leanding of a small amount of funds in order to stimulate a larger flow of economic activity.
What is Pump Priming?
500
Lived in isolated enclaves with their own houses of worship, newspapers, and theaters.
Who were the most recent immagrants?
500
Guglielmo Marconi invented...
What is the wireless telegraphy?