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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Bingo

1. The transfer from wartime to peacetime production levels. This process caused social and economic strain (demobilization)

2. This city was the place where the entire police force formed a union to seek better pay and working conditions. Many union members were fired, and they went on strike. The strike turned violent. (boston)

3. During the steel strike, the steel companies brought in these workers to replace the strikers (Mexican & African American).

4. This Russian Bolshevik led the Russian Revolution (VI Lenin)

5. This perennial presidential candidate wished to see a peaceful transition to socialism by democratic means (Eugene Debs).

6. The Name of the attorney general whose house was damaged by an anarchist bomb in 1919 (A. Mitchell Palmer).

7. Republican candidate in the election if 1920.

8. This man was the secretary of the treasury in the 1920’s (Andrew Mellon)

9. Republican candidate in the 1920 election who people feared was not as smart as Wilson (Harding)

10. AA moved to this city in droves, hoping for jobs in manufacturing/auto industry (Detroit)

11. Type of management aimed at increasing productivity (Scientific Management)

12. Prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Trial (Jennings Bryan)

13. This strike happened without a single incident of violence but newspapers blamed union members for the strike (Seattle)

14. This act raised tariff rates on manufactured goods, and helped US keep prices high to increase profits (Fordney McCumber Act)

15. Riots happened in this city after a white mob killed an AA boy for swimming in Lake Michigan (Chicago)

16. First low cost automobile by the Ford Company (Model T)

17. Defense attorney in the Scopes Trial (Clarence Darrow)

18. New method of production created by the Ford Motor Company to maximize profits and efficiency (assembly line)

19. Term for combining businesses as a way to take advantage of Republican tax incentives (mergers)

20. William Joseph Simmons revamped this group in 1915, which was responsible for numerous hate crimes throughout the US in the 20th century (KKK)

21. This prohibited the sale & manufacturing of alcoholic beverages (Volstead)

22. Fear that a Bolshevik revolution would erupt in the united states (Red Scare)

23. This movement failed to win support for fear that it was unconstitutional

(ERA)

24. This magazine, founded by WEB Dubois, was situated in Harlem was was responsible for a mass antilynching campaign (the crisis)

25. Chicago gangster famous for using violence rival gangs who impeded on his rum running

26. Leader of the Marxist inspired socialist party (Debs)

27. This Catholic NYer failed at his run for President in 1928

28. A popular job for African Americans on the railroad, but they failed to have their union memorized

29. Special agent in charge of prohibition

30. Bomb by anarchist damaged home of this attorney general, setting off sweeping attacks on radicals

31. This governor of Massachusetts was pro business and passed tax cuts for the wealthy when he was elected president

32. The Universal Negro Improvement Association was founded by this man

33. This filmmaker created a new genre, specializing in sweeping epics requiring many actors, muscians, fashions, etc

34. The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti focused on ___________ instead of their supposed murder charge

35. Investigator discovered corruption in the executive branch, when it was made clear politicans were controlling government oil supplies in exchange for bribes, etc. (teapot dome scandal)

36. This act in 1924 limited immigration of ethnic groups based on 1890 census (Imm act of 1924)

37. Music form started by AA that is rooted in slave music and religious spirituals. Memphis and Chicago become centers of this type of Music (blues)

38. “Why should I want to be white?, I am negro and beautiful”

39. Leader of the lost generation of writers (ernest hemingway)

40. Author from St. Paul Minn, who often wrote about wealth and achieving social status

41. City is the birthplace of Jazz and the jazz great Louis Armstrong

42. This is the place where many Black traveled after WWI, and gained notoriety in the arts.

43. This book highlighted the pursuit of social status and was a best seller in the 1920s.

44. This artist was compared to Russian revolutionaries and was married to artist Frieda Kaldho

45. This pianist was responsible for popularizing jazz (Ellington or Bierderle)

46. Critically successful Black actor

47. This artist painted a mural of a detriot auto facto in 1932.

48. This was the leader of the United Mine Worker Strike

49. This criminals’ alibi was that he was delivering fish in Plymouth. MA

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