Progressive Era/Russian Revolution
Leading figure in settlement house movement, opened Hull House (community centers providing social services to urban poor)
Who is Jane Addams?
Hated the tsarist government in Russia, spread the ideas of Karl Marx, created the Bolsheviks as an elite group to lead the revolution, believed only revolution would bring about change
Who is V.I. Lenin?
Adopted by Lenin, state kept control of banks, foreign trade, and large industries, but small businesses were allowed to reopen for private profit, peasants could keep land and sell surplus crops
What is New Economic Policy (NEP)?
Forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the US
What is the 18th amendment?
Scandal with Secretary of Interior Albert Fall, transferred oil reserves in Elk Hills, CA and Teapot Dome, Wyoming from the Navy to the Interior Department, and then he gave it to private oilmen as bribes
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Monitors companies to make sure people are not hurt by dangerous substances or dishonest labels, enforces the Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
Illiterate peasant and self-proclaimed holy man, relied on by the Tsar's wife in his absence because she believed he had miraculous powers after he helped her son with hemophilia
Who is Gregory Rasputin?
Took over control of Russian when Lenin died, wanted to build socialism at home, became a dictator
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Ended/repealed prohibition
What is the 21st amendment?
High School Biology teacher on trial for violating Tennessee law making it illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution, represented by Clarence Darrow, but found guilty and fined $100
Wisconsin Governor established a direct primary, an election where citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections
Who is Robert La Follette?
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
Group that had it the worst during the 1920s, didn't participate in the economic growth/consumer benefits, growing debt and falling farm prices
Who are the farmers?
Carmaker that introduced mass production, the Model T, assembly lines and increased wages and gave a weekend to workers
Radio station in Pittsburgh in the 1920s
What is KDKA?
Ruled Russia for 300 years before toppled by revolutin
Social revolutionary who wrote the Communist Manifesto, Lenin read his works and spread his marxist ideas, believed industrial workers would rise up and overthrow capitalism
Who is Karl Marx?
Experienced a mass migration from the South to the urban North, culture expanded during Harlem Renaissance with music and literature, but also had to deal with the Ku Klux Klan
Who are African Americans during the 1920s?
Elected president in 1920, favored policies aiding business growth and a "return to normalcy", he favored a laissez-faire approach and reducing government regulation of business
Who is Warren Harding?
African Americans relocating from the rural south to the urban north after WWI
What is the Great Migration?
Radical socialist group in Russia created and led by V.I. Lenin that took charge after the Tsar stepped down and led the revolution, later renamed Communists
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Tsar of Russia in 1913, failed to solve Russia's political, economic and social problems, blocked attempts to limit his power, and relied on his secret police to enforce his will, went to war but didn't do good and then abdicated in March 1917
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
Banning of alcohol use
What is Prohibition?
Became President after Harding, trusted business, "the business of America is business", he oversaw an economic boom
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Young woman with short skirts and rouged cheeks with close cropped hair, symbol of changes for women in 1920s
What is a flapper?