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| Pregunta | Respuesta |
| Name 3 'Pull Factors' (What pulled people to America?) | -Opportunities -Jobs available -Freedom to worship whoever they want |
| Why was there an economic boom? | Mass marketing, new resources, legacy of the war, new products, hire purchase, confidence, mass production, Republican economic policies |
| What are the economic policies of the Republican Presidents? | -Lower taxes -High tariffs placed on imported goods -Laissez-Faire |
| Name 3 'Push Factors' (What pushed people from their own countries to America?) | -Lack of opportunities -underpaid, overworked -persecuted in their own country |
| Who suffered in 1920'S America? | -Farmers -New immigrants -African-Americans -Old industry workers |
| What were the 'Palmer Raids'? | Mitchell Palmer (Attorney-General) organised for socialist organisations to be raided, their books burnt and their leaflets seized. |
| What is the definition of 'Flapper'? | A young liberated, urban woman |
| Which women suffered? | -Rural , farming women -Older women -Poorer women -Immigrants etc. |
| What was the 'Red Scare'? | Americans were scared that their country was being swamped with anarchistic and communist views from Southern and Eastern Europe. |
| What did the 'Palmer Raids' result in? | Around 4000 people believed to be communists were arrested and around 600 people were deported. |
| Who was John Scopes? | He was a science teacher who was tried for teaching the theory of evolution to his classes in Tennessee, 1925. |
| When did National Prohibition end? | 5th December 1933 |
| How many people were going to the cinema every week by 1929? | 110 million people |
| What law did John Scopes break? | The Anti-Evolution law (in place in 6 states in the Deep South). |
| What was the first 'talkie'? | 'The Jazz Singer' 1927 |
| When was National Prohibition introduced? | 16th January 1920 |
| Who was Scopes defended by? | America's most famous criminal lawyer Clarence Drew. |
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