Chapter 21-Return To Normalcy 1920s

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Was Harding a Democrat or Republican?
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Republican
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Red Scare
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The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This "scare" was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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A government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921. It became symbolic of the scandals of the Harding administration
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Jazz
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The most popular music during the 1920s.
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Who contributed a major factor to jazz?
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Louis Armstrong
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What entertainment did African Americans make inroads into that they never had before?
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Music
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What was radio a source of?
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Music, sporting events, news, and soap operas.
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What music genres evolved from jazz?
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Blues, soul, and R&B.
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Who was balmed for the red scare?
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Immigrants
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Who are some blues singers?
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Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Mellow Jelly, and Bessy Smith
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What was the largest sporting event and how many people were there?
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Boxing(Dempsey v. Tunney) and there were 127,000 people.
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What was the Cotton Club?
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It was a jazz restaurant in Harlem. Blacks were allowed to perform, but they had to go in the kitchen to be separated from the white patrons.
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What is return to normalcy?
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A return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding's campaign promise in the election of 1920.
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Who was Coolidge?
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The 30th President of the United States (1923-29). He's a republican.
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Who was the most conservative and friendliest to business?
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Coolidge
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What were some of the reasons for race riots?
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Blacks weren't treated equal after the war, women weren't treated equally, etc.
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The Johnson-Reed Act
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Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. Tried to stop people from Asis and souther europe.
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National Immigration Act
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Stop people from asis and southern europe.
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Who were the acts aimed at?
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Asian-Americans and peope from southern europe, (Italy)
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Who were two italians that were put on trial?
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Vanzetti and Socco
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Who was Babe Ruth?
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A baseball player of the early twentieth century, known for hitting home runs. He hit sixty home runs in 1927, a record for a 154-game season that stood until the late twentieth century.The Boston Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to buy interest in a play.
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Notre Dame
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The most famous college of the 1920s. They were the first team to travel outside of their area. Army was rival with Notre Dame.
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Jack Dempsey
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Was from the Bible Belt(South) and he won the match between him and Tunney.
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The Four Power Treaty
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Signed by the U.S. Great Britain, Japan, and France. They were all imperialists in Asia, it said they would respect each other's territories and would not interfere.
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The Five Power Treaty
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A treaty among the major nations that had won World War I, which agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.
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The Nine Power Treaty
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It said that the open door policy would continue and CHine was involved. Recognizes that China is a country.
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Kellog Briand Pact Treaty
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A treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and urging peaceful means for the settlement of international disputes, originally signed in 1928 by 15 nations, later joined by 49 others.
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Who were great novelists?
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Earnest hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald(The Great Gatsby).
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What was the first radio station?
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KDKA
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Who was Henry Ford and what did he do?
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An American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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The Dawes Plan
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An attempt in 1924 to solve the World War I reparations problem that Germany had to pay, which had bedevilled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles.