Studied by 4 peoplePresident Harding's domestic policy program favored
Less government spending
Zora Hurston & Hughes had which of the following in common?
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
The US faced all of the following problems except
Food shortages; (They DID face urban racial riots, violent labor strikes, and bomb scares)
Labor Strikes and terrorist acts led many Americans
to support nativism
Mass Media and advances in transportation
Promoted the creation of a national culture
Automobile industry led to
Government building new roads
Palmer Raids in 1920 targeted
Alleged radicals (1920)
Teapot Dome
A scandal involving government officials who illegally leased land to oil companies
H. Hoover was elected President in 1928 because
The soaring economy under the Republicans (1)
The motivation behind the passage of the National Origin Act was (1)
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants wanted to ban immigrants (1)
All are true about the film industry EXCEPT
The movie industry experienced sluggish box office sales; (The rest is true: Movie stars became key figures in the emergence of celebrities, the construction of huge movie houses in cities, films often expressed contrasting themes)
First "Shopping Center" in 1922 was located in
Kansas City
Harlem Renaissance
An African American literary and artistic movement
Effect of woman's suffrage on public life
Women began to serve on juries in many states
Red Scare of the 1920s
A period of fear of communism & radical ideas
Support for A.A. businesses and the back-to-Africa movement were part of whose program?
Marcus Garvey
The ultimate symbol of the Jazz Age culture was a young woman who
Enjoyed greater freedom in morals and manners than previously
First Talking Motion Picture
The Jazz Singer
What did Charles Lindbergh symbolize
The country's national spirit
Assembly Line was made more efficient by
Henry Ford
Why Hoover won the election of 1928
Because the economy soared under Republican leadership during the 1920s. (2)
First talking movie
The Jazz Singer
Favored less government spending
President Harding
Supported American businesses wholeheartedly
Harding and Calvin Coolidge
A major male writer of Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Results of labor strikes and terrorist acts
Many Americans began to support nativism
Results of Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Marcus Garvey
Promoted idea of universal black nationalism and organized a "Back to Africa" movement; advocated for the separation of races
Main goal of KKK
-Targeted Jews. Catholics, and immigrants. Opposed labor unions, and claimed to stand against lawbreaking and immorality -Racism and feared social change -Reestablish white supremacy and white power
What the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia and workers' strikes in the US caused
Red Scare
What industry created many other industries
Automobile Industry (industry)
Main group against teaching the theory of evolution
Fundamentalists
Problems faced after WWI
Violent labor, strikes, Bomb scares, War Debts, Urban racial riots
Cause of the Red Scare
(Americans feared Vladimir Lenin and his followers promoted a worldwide communist revolution); Bolshevik Rev of 1917 & workers' strikes in US
Believers in white supremacy
Ku Klux Klan
Reduced immigrant quotas
National Origin Act (1924)
Sacco and Vanzetti's accusations
Charged with shooting and killing two men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town near Boston
Motivation to pass National Origin Act of 1924 (2)
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants wanted to ban immigrants (2)
Caused the rise of organized crime
Prohibition
Temperance
The act of abstaining from alcoholic beverages
Effects of the 18th amendment
Forbade manufacturing, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the USA
Made prohibition official
18th amendment, Volstead Act enforced 18th Amendment
Failure of prohibition
The growth of organized crime
"The Business of America is Business" meaning
The economy functions best if the government allows business to operate freely
Caused legislatures to support favorable legislation for women
19th amendment
What created a demand for vacuum cleaners and radios
Vacuum cleaners for made women's life at home easier; Consumer Revolution
19th amendment
Women gain the right to vote
The ultimate symbol of the jazz age
Flappers
What promoted the creation of a national culture
Mass Media and advances in transportation
Flew solo across the Atlantic
Charles Lindbergh
Jazz Musicians
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith
Symbolize the country's national spirit
Charles Lindbergh
Assembly line
Henry Ford put cars on this-> worker added something to construct the automobile (Drops sale price)
Palmer raids target
alleged radicals and anarchists and were threatned to be arrested or deported
This President limited immigration quotas in 1921 because of the fear of communism
President Harding; Emergency Quota Act of 1921, established a quota system
Effects of the automobile on American society
toy of the rich made more affordable; government paved roads; increase in consumer money (consumer revolution); increased commuting distance to jobs; decrease in church attendence
How Americans pay for most of their purchases
Installment buying and buying on margin
Cause the government to build new roads
Automobile industry (government)
Harlem Renaissance
An African American literary and artistic movement
Back-to-Africa Movement
Marcus Garvey; promoted the idea of universal black nationalism
Fear of communism and radical ideas
The Red Scare
Henry Ford
Carmaker introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, daily life (AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY)
Tea Pot Dome
biggest (bribery) scandal of Harding's administration; Secretary of Interior Albert Fall illegally leased government oil fields in the West to private oil companies; Fall was later convicted of bribery and became the first Cabinet official to serve prison time (1931-1932).; Harding never saw full extent of it
Louis Armstrong
-Unofficial ambassador of jazz (trumpet player) -Trumpet playing + sense of improvisation= legend + influenced the development of jazz
The film industry of the 1920s
Films became popular worldwide; Huge studios were built in Hollywood, California; Mainly silent films
KKK in 1920
Increased in membership; Revelations of corruptions and criminality: the growth of KKK slowed
Scopes Trial
William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow; Bryans believed Tennessee had the right to protect its children from ideas that violated biblical teachings; Darrow argued against a state determining what should be taught
Supporters of WASP (Nordic Americans)
KKK?
Supporters of prohibition
"Drys", called it a noble experiment
Fredrick Taylor
Scientific Management: experts to improve mass production techniques; Improves efficiency (experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process to find ways to reduce time, effort, expense
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