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| Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged and convicted of ? |
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| What happened to union membership in the 1920's? |
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| Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from what? |
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The main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920's was what? |
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| The teapot Dome scandal centered around what |
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| to protect their own interests, employers often accused striking workers of being what? |
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| What was a reason for the public's negative reactions to organized labor in the 1920's? |
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| What called for the abolition (doing away with) of private propertry so that wealth and power would be equal among all people? |
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| What would an anarchist say about scandals in the Harding administration? |
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| that all forms of government should be abolished. |
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| Were changes in the movie industry caused by the popularity and availability of the automobile? |
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| What does the Harlem Renaissance refer to? |
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| A celebration of African-American culture in literature and art. |
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| Charles Lindberg was a famous |
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| What were underground nightclubs called? |
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| Did prohibition ban only alcoholic beverages manufactured in the United States? |
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| John Scopes challanged what Tennesse law? |
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| What did fundamentalists believe? |
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| The Bible should be taken literally. |
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| What does the term "Double Standard" refer to? |
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| Stricter moral standard for women than men during the 1920's. |
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| Industries where only union members can be empllyed are called what? |
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| What do we call the process of returning to a peacetime economy after a war? |
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| What did we call young writers who criticized American culture during the 1920's? |
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| Who was the first pilot to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean? |
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| What does the Twenty-first Amendment do? |
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| The l920's was often called? |
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| Who made up the Bonus Army? |
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| WWI Veterans and their families |
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| What does it mean to buy stock on margin? |
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| borrowing money to help pay for the stock |
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| Why did people call shanty towns "Hoovervilles?" |
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| They were disgusted with Hoover not helping the common people enough. |
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| A cause for the farming crisis in the 1020's was |
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| The demand for crops fell after WWI-overproduction |
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| What happened on October 9, 1929? |
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| The stock market collapsed |
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| What did the Works Progress Administration do? |
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| gave people jobs building hospitals, schools, parks, airports etc. |
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| Why did Americans lose their savings during the depression? |
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| Banks did not have enough money to pay all withdrawingt depositors. |
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| What was the civilian Conservation Corps? |
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| young men from 17-24 who worked and provided some of the money for their families |
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| Who said "We have nothing to gear but gear itself?" |
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| What did the Federal DEposit Insurance Corporation do? |
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| insure bank accounts up to $100,00 |
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| Why did Congress create the Social Security Administration? |
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| provide retirement income and other services for the elderly |
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| Did the Progressive movement want to promote business monopolies? |
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| In his book "The Jungle," what was Upton Sinclair trying to expose? |
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| unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry |
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| Who was the first person to use the presidence as a "Bully Pulpit?" |
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| What is the main goal of the NAACP? |
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| What effect did WWI have on the suffragist (women getting to vote) movement? |
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| It hastened (hurried up) passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. |
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| What was the main goal of the prohibitionists? |
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| to eliminate (stop) the use of alcohol in society |
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| Was the need for cheap labor a cause for U.S.imperalism? |
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| Who told Frederic Remington, "you furnish the pictures and I"ll furnish the war?" |
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| The Roosevelt Corollary was built on what other document? |
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| What war ended with the Treaty of Paris? |
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| The Spanish American War. |
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| Was the United states involved in the Russo-Japanese War? |
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| What was the reson for the Boxer Rebellion? |
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| remove foreign influence from China |
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| "Remember the Maine" became a rally cry for U.S. citizens after what happened? |
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| The Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor |
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| What was the purpose of the Open Door Policy? |
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| to increase trade interests |
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| Why did rapid growth of industry in the U.S. help fuel imperalism? |
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| we were producing to may good for our own people to buy (needed someone else to buy our goods) |
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| Which nation was not a member of The "Big Four" |
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| Who rejected Wilson's "Fourteen Points" peace plan? |
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| Was American isolationism a cause of WWI? |
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| What was a result of the Selective Service Act? |
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| Men were required to register for military service. |
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| What was the policy that kept the U.S. out of war for three years called? |
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| What was the major mistake made by the Treaty of Versailles? |
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| treating all nations justly, including the losers |
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| The "powder keg" of Eastern Europs was lit when what happened (started WWI) |
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| JArchduke Ferdinand was assassinated |
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| Germany violated neutratality in the Atlantic Ocean when it sank what ship? |
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