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What was the Great Migration?
A time where many African Americans went to the northern states
What did the 19th Amendment do?
Women's right to vote
What was the spark that started WWI and what caused it to escalate?
Assassination of Archduke ferdinand of Austria
What is the 18th amendment?
Making it illegal to make, sell or transport liquor
A larger than life American hero who played for Yankees.
How did the Sedition Act of 1918 violate the 1st Amendment?
It limited people from speaking their minds about the war
What was the peacekeeping organization that formed after WWI?
The League of Nations
What are the MANIA causes of WWI?
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination
What are bootleggers and speakeasies?
People that smuggle or make alcohol illegally
Made the first nonstop solo trans-atlantic flight.
Charles Lindbergh
How did Teddy Roosevelt accomplish environmental protection?
The 3 C's
Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection, and Conservation of Natural Resources
What is a carpetbagger?
northerners who moved to the south to make money
What was the new technology of WW1?
Machine Guns
Tanks-used to navigate trenches
Poison Gas
Airplanes
How long did prohibition last?
1920 to 1933
Wrote novels, short stories and poems. Focused on the culture of the people their folkways and values.
Zola Neale Hurston
What is Laissez Faire Economics?
Hands off government
Who perfect the assembly line?
Henry Ford
What was the powder keg of Europe?
The Balkans
What is the name of the two Italian immigrants and anarchists, falsely convicted of murder?
Sacco and Vanzetti
Coined the phrase “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920s and also Wrote Paradise Lost and The Great Gatsby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What were one of the 5 goals for the progressive era?
Reduce political corruption
Limit monopolies/trust
Moral reform (drinking, helping the poor, ect
End child labor and improve working and living conditions
Women’s suffrage. (right to vote)
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
An agency providing relief for freedpeople and certain poor people in the South
A belief many Americans adopted in the 20s?
Isolationism
What were Americas postwar issues?
The American public was exhausted from World War 1
Public debate over the League of nations had divided America
An economic downturn meant many faced hardship
A wave of Nativism swept the nation.
What was the first animated film with sound and what is the first sound movie.
(2 different films)
Jazz Singer (1927) (THE MOVIE)
Steamboat Willie (1928) (THE FILM)