Chapter 19 and 20The Roaring 20s

Soldiers returning from World War I brought what disease back to the United States, causing an epidemic that swept the country in 1918

Influenza

In 1919 this city was virtually shut down because of a wide range of labor strikes.

Seattle

Clue

Radical communists led by V.I. Lenin, who seized power in Russia

Answer: Bolsheviks

The deportation of suspected radicals, justified by broad powers granted to the government during wartime

Palmer Raids

Executed for murder despite the lack of solid evidence against them

Group that targeted Jews, Catholics, and radicals

Ku Klux Klan

In 1927 his solo flight over the Atlantic made him a national hero

Charles Lindbergh

The first woman to fly across the Atlantic

Amelia Earhart.

Disillusioned author who wrote The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Became law in 1919 with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment

Prohibition

Payments required from a defeated nation for damages and injuries it caused during a war.

Reparations 1923-issue 50 million mark banknote. Worth approximately $1 US when printed, this sum would have been worth approximately $12 million nine years earlier. The note was practically worthless a few weeks later due to continued inflation.

An illegal bar

Speakeasy The easiest way to get alcohol during Prohibition was actually legal.  This was by way of prescriptions.  A doctor would be paid a set amount of money to prescribe a certain amount of liquor a day. 

Brigadier general who said the United States should increase its air power

Billy Mitchell

Agreement to reject war as a way of solving international disputes

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Made further cuts by limiting immigration from any nation to two percent of its representation in the 1890 census.

National Origins Act

Ellis Island

“Very quickly, the gateway to the promised land had all but slammed shut.”

Promised to return the country to “Normalcy”

Warren G. Harding

Granted Women’s Suffrage in the United States

Women celebrate the passage of the�19th Amendment granting them theright to vote: Aug 26, 1920. 19th Amendment

Theory that the species alive today are the result of millions of years of development

Evolution

Religious beliefs based on a strict interpretation of the Bible

Fundamentalism

Three-time candidate for president who was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial 

William Jennings Bryan

The buildup of weapons among nations

Arms Race

Clue

America’s best known gangster during the prohibition Era.

Al Capone

The unofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States in the 1920s

Harlem

Harlem Renaissance poet who dealt with issues of African American cultural heritage.

Langston Hughes

Clue

Most famous jazz Musicians of the 1920s. (List 3)

Jazz

Bessie Smith

Louis Armstrong

African American who won acclaim for her short stories, plays, novels, and nonfiction

Zora Neale Hurston

Founder of an organization for African Americans that promoted self-reliance

Marcus Garvey

A key slogan that served as a rallying cry for members of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association

“Back to Africa”

During World War I when African Americans moved from the South to the North.

The Great Migration

Producer of a controversial film that introduced new filmmaking techniques

d. W. Griffith

Clue

Post WWI Problems

Russian Revolution

Urban Riots

Violent Labor Strikes

_________

Problems faced by the US after World War I

Or Bomb scares and actual bombings

Terrorism

Clue: Policy of giving fringe benefits to employees 

Welfare Capitalism

The scandal that concerned Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall’s willingness to accept bribes to allow oil companies to drill on federally owned land.

Teapot Dome

An unintended consequence of this Tariff was increased difficulty for European allies in repaying their war debts.

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Short Answer What factors contributed to the Red Scare? How did Americans react to the havoc that

followed World War I? How did the views of W.E.B. Dubois and

Marcus Garvey differ? Identify at least three things that contributed

to a new American popular culture in the 1920s.

How did Prohibition affect the nation?