2024 Unit 5 - Roaring 20s Flashcard

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What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?

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A scandal involving illegal leasing of government oil reserves.

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What was the Red Scare?

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Fear of a potential communist revolution.

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What was the significance of Scopes Monkey Trial? Who was involved? How does this apply to roles of fundamentalism and evolution?

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It was a trial involving the teaching of evolution in schools. It involved a teacher and the state of Tennessee. It showed the clash between religious fundamentalism and the theory of evolution.

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What was the Great Migration?

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The movement of people from the South to the North in search of better job opportunities.

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What impact did the Harlem Renaissance have on American culture?

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It contributed to the flourishing of African American art, music, and literature.

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The map above shows the spread of which type of music through cultural diffusion?

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Jazz

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Cartoons such as this one took the position that deportation was necessary because –

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communists were infiltrating the United States.

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One immediate result of Henry Ford’s manufacturing methods was that cars –

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became affordable for more people.

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Which reason BEST explains the change in the number of cars sold between 1910 and 1925? Options: Cars became more available because of the passage of antitrust laws. Cars became more available because of the removal of tariffs after a global conflict. Cars became more affordable because of the removal of wartime price controls. Cars became more affordable because of the introduction of the assembly line.

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Cars became more affordable because of the introduction of the assembly line.

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This 1924 cartoon satirizes a scandal that led to —

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public disappointment over revelations of government corruption.