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Define Red Scare and Anarchist.
What is fear of communism being spread in America. A person who believes in no rules and wants to overthrow the government
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Define 18th Amendment and 21st Amendment
What is Ban on making, selling, and consuming alcohol. Canceling the ban on making, selling, and consuming alcohol
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Explain Calvin Coolidge's quote, "The business of America is business"
What is that the government should keep their hands off, lower taxes, allow businesses and business owners to thrive (Laissez-Faire Economics)
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Describe the Harlem Renaissance
What is Period in the 1920s in Harlem, New York where jazz music, poetry, literature, art, and entertainment flourished.
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Define Quota and Nativist.
What is Restriction on Immigration. Person who is anti-immigrants.
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How did the Red Scare influence the Sacco and Vanzetti Case?
What is fears of communists and anarchists influenced the decision to sentence Sacco and Vanzetti to death despite the lack of evidence of them committing a murder in an armed robbery
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Define organized crimes (Or give an example)
What is criminal activities that are planned and controlled by powerful groups and carried out on a large scale. Al Capone. Tough to get to because he had so many hitmen and people to protect him.
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Define installment buying.
What is Paying for something with multiple payments over time.
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How did the conditions in the South impact the Harlem Renaissance?
What is Violence and discrimination in the South along with a shortage of jobs in Northern factories motivated African Americans to migrate north.
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Define Warren Harding's "Return to Normalcy" Policy
What is going back to conditions and life before the war
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Describe the Palmer Raids
What is Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney General of the US, led a series of raids on people who were suspected communists and anarchists, which led to over 500 arrests and some deportations
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How did Prohibition increase organized crime?
What is Bootleggers could make a ton of profits, as many people wanted to drink alcohol. However, to continue to make profits, they needed hitmen to protect them from being ratted out.
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What are the positives and negatives of credit spending?
What is Credit spending allows for consumers to have more time to pay for goods, spend more money on goods, which helps businesses thrive, which opens up more jobs for people. However, when people abuse it and spend more than they actually have, they go in debt, have to pay more in interest, and when they cannot pay their debt, the bank and credit card companies do not get the money they lent.
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How did WW1 influence the Harlem Renaissance?
What is African Americans moved north during the Great Migration to fill the labor shortage in Northern Factories.
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Relate the KKK, the Scopes Monkey Trial, Prohibition, and the Changing roles of women to American Counter Culture
What is the KKK, Fundamentalists, Prohibitionists, and people who were anti-flappers and women rights stuck to their traditional values rather than adapting to changing lifestyles, values, and world-views.
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Describe US immigration policy during the 1920s
What is the US tightened up immigration restrictions to certain countries due to the fear of communists and anarchists entering the country.
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Why was the 18th Amendment repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933?
What is Prohibition was unpopular, too many people were drinking anyway to the point where the law could not be enforced, and the government was making much less money on arrests.
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What were the causes to the Economic Boom of the 1920s?
What is LACK PANTS. Laissez-Faire Economics, Assembly line, Credit Spending, Post-War Time Period, New products such as the Radio, Refrigerator, and Cars. Advertisements. Tariffs. Stock Market boomed, as many people were investing money into companies, and as companies continued to thrive, people buying shares of stocks were thriving as well as they received much more money than they were investing in the stocks
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How does the Harlem Renaissance help you understand today's world for African Americans?
What is During the Harlem Renaissance, African Americans discovered mastering art, literature, music, and forms of entertainment could provide them enormous job opportunities to thrive in America. Today, with the addition of education in this mix, the most successful African Americans, such as the Obamas, Oprah, Michael Jordan, Comedians, Singers, Actors, Rappers, and athletes became successful in these fields.
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How did flappers change the image of women?
What is women were now consuming alcohol, smoking cigarettes, and wearing more revealing clothing going against traditional values.
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How were "anti-union feelings" in the 1920s related to the Red Scare?
What is Many Americans feared the labor union strikes were signaling a possibility of labor union workers coming together to organize their own communist revolution like the Bolsheviks.
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How does the failure of Prohibition illustrate that our country's power belongs to the people?
What is Prohibition failed because many people disagreed with it and did not follow the law. As a result, it was too hard to enforce the law, so the government had to repeal it.
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Explain how the mass culture of the 1920s influenced consumer spending, and may have contributed to the Great Depression.
What is the cultural movement emphasizing entertainment and materialistic goods with enormous advertising to support the movement influenced Americans to spend much more money than they had ever before on goods they never wanted previously. Many Americans were spending more than they had, and were not thinking before they made investments and purchases, which lead them into debt or unprepared for the Great Depression.
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Langston Hughes's poem, "I, Too, Sing America" and "Dreams" meant to encourage African Americans to . . .
What is look forward to a brighter future ahead
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Describe the historical context of the 1920s
What is This was the post-WW1 period where many African Americans migrated from the South to the North to fill factory jobs, which eventually caused the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance. Women were given the right to vote, and many flappers changed the image of women. An American Counterculture emerged, such as the KKK, Fundamentalists, and Prohibitionists against the movement away from traditional values. Americans emphasized entertainment, leisure, and materialistic lifestyles, which influenced people to spend a lot of money. Credit Card spending, installment buying, and buying stocks on the margin helped consumers spend more and caused the economy to boom. A Red Scare became prominent, as many Americans feared a Communist Revolution. This spread fears against communists, anarchists, immigrants, and labor union workers who went on strike. As a result, the US Government tightened up its immigration policies with the Quota Acts and Immigration Act of 1924. Prohibition was enforced 1919 to ban alcohol, but with the rise of organized crime and failure to enforce an unpopular law, Prohibition ended in 1933 with the 21st Amendment. At the end of the 1920s, the stock market crashed, which signaled the end of the Roaring 20s into the start of the Great Depression.