The 1920s

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  1. 4. Also known as P.I.E and worldwide expansion,competition for colonies
  2. 6. legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment.
  3. 10. Period of decline in economic activity, typically defined by two consecutive quarters of negative (gross domestic Product) GDP growth
  4. 13. A period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities across the United States.
  5. 14. What was the virus that nearly wiped out all the soldiers in combat?
  6. 17. The "Lost Generation" reached adulthood during or shortly after World War I. Disillusioned by the horrors of war, they rejected the traditions of the older generation. Common traits of the "Lost Generation" included decadence, distorted visions of the "American Dream," and gender confusion.​
  7. 18. A brief period of mass fear in the U.S., during which a number of legislatures passed "anti-red" statutes that often violated the right to free speech; Time period after WWI in which the nation feared the spread of communism.
  8. 23. Place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold, especially such establishments in the United States during Prohibition.
  9. 24. Devotion to your country;recognition
  10. 27. Idea that centered on the importance of the US to develop manufacturing and industry as to not be reliant on foreign affairs; the South believed it was slanted to the North because it focused on industry and South was based on agriculture.
  11. 30. Agreement signed in 1928 in which nations agreed not to pose the threat of war against one another.
  12. 31. A popular book that schooled manufacturers and advertisers in the art of pitching products to American women.
  13. 32. American legal case in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
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  1. 1. Who was assassinated and was the spark that ignited WW1?
  2. 2. Farmers went into debt during WWI trying to buy more land and equipment during the war. The supply outweighed the demand causing prices to plunge/drop.
  3. 3. What's another name for the central powers?
  4. 5. Foreign policy proposed by President Wilson to condemn imperialism, spread democracy, and promote peace.
  5. 7. What's another name for the allied powers?
  6. 8. Movement of over 300,000 African Americans from the rural South into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 in search of better job opportunities and escape from the Jim Crow South.
  7. 9. An intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
  8. 11. Supreme court decision upheld that any actions taken that present a "clear and present danger" to the public or government isn't allowed. This can limit free speech and 1st Amendment rights.
  9. 12. Headed by George Creel, the purpose of this committee was to mobilize people's minds for war, both in America and abroad. Tried to get the entire U.S. public to support U.S. involvement in WWI.
  10. 15. Military buildup is occurring
  11. 16. Made it a federal offense to us "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the constitution, the government. the american uniform or the flag.
  12. 19. 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment. The Regiment consisted of African Americans as well as Puerto Ricans and was known for being the first African American regiment to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.The African American infantry unit that fought with the French Army in World War I.
  13. 20. A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s.
  14. 21. An American pacifist and feminist organization formally established in January 1915 in response to World War I. The organization is remembered as the first American peace organization to make use of direct action tactics such as public demonstrations.
  15. 22. What was Wilson's plan to prevent wars from happening but congress refused?
  16. 25. Set a legal precedent that states may sterilize inmates of public institutions. The court argued that imbecility, epilepsy, and feeblemindedness are hereditary, and that inmates should be prevented from passing these defects to the next generation.
  17. 26. Having the ability to buy now and pay later is called what?
  18. 28. Gave postal officials the authority to ban newspapers and magazines from the mails and threatened individuals convinced of obstructing the draft with $10,000 fines and 20 years in jail?
  19. 29. Countries join forces to achieve certain goals