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Ch 15-16 Jazz Ages
Spalding Academy 10th 2012
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Major author, wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway |
| African American author; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Famous African American jazz singer at the Cotton Club | Josephine Baker |
| Leader of the Black Nationalist Movement to move African Americans back to Africa | Marcus Garvey |
| Major athlete during this time period—became a national hero | Babe Ruth |
| Major musician during the Harlem Renaissance; known for his excellent trumpeting | Louis Armstrong |
| Major poet during the Harlem Renaissance; wrote “I, too.” | Langston Hughes |
| __________ was designed to help Germany meet its post-war financial obligations. | The Dawes Plan |
| A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs | Isolationism |
| A place where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally | Speakeasy |
| A production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her | Assembly line |
| A Protestant evangelical Christian who believes in being saved from sins by being born again and making a personal commitment to follow Jesus Christ | Fundamentalism |
| A suspension of activity | Moratorium |
| A young woman of the 1920s who showed freedom from convention | Flapper |
| After the passage of the National Origins Act of 1924, who did employers hire? | Mexican immigrants |
| Chicago gangster who was involved in the bootlegging industry | Al Capone |
| Compare and contrast President Harding and President Coolidge. (i.e. personality, attitude toward gov’t, and scandals.) | Harding: loud, lots of gov’t involvement, Ohio gang + Teapot Dome scandal. Coolidge: Quiet, laissez faire, no scandals |
| Explain the Sacco and Vanzetti case. How did nativism influence this case? | 1927. 2 Italian immigrants accused of shooting 2 men. Were anarchists. Guns/bullets didn’t match. Executed. Real criminals step forward. Were Catholic, anarchists, etc |
| Explain the Scopes Monkey Trial. What was the final verdict? | John Scopes in TN teaches evolution. Sued. Scopes found guilty. Fined $100. |
| First female to attempt to fly around the world solo; disappeared | Amelia Earhart |
| First person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean | Charles Lindbergh |
| Freedom from prosecution | Immunity |
| How did the US maintain diplomatic relations with foreign nations after WWI? | assuming the wartime debt of European nations |
| In the Teapot Dome scandal, why did Harding’s cabinet officers accept bribes? | accepted bribes in exchange for the lease of U.S. Navy oil fields, accepted bribes in exchange for German-American patents, pocketed the proceeds from the sale medical supplies from veteran hospitals |
| Italian immigrants accused of shooting 2 men | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| Major automobile producer; implemented the assembly line | Henry Ford |
| Person who believes that there should be no government | Anarchist |
| Tennessee teacher who was arrested and stood trial for teaching evolution | John Scopes |
| The govt’s economic policies of the 1920s included all of the following EXCEPT: A) reducing government debt, B) cutting government spending, C) reducing tariffs, D) reducing tax rates | d) reducing tariffs |
| The production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line | Mass production |
| The state or fact of being normal | Normalcy |
| Warren G. Harding’s cabinet was known as | the Ohio Gang |
| What led to the rise of racism/nativism in the 1920s? | a widespread acceptance of eugenics, economic recession increase in immigration after WWI |
| What was the Dawes plan? How did it work? Why did the US participate? | Plan to help Europe pay debt. US gives money to Ger. Ger pays Allies. UK/Fr pays US. If Europe suffers, US suffers economically |
| What were Henry Ford’s industrial innovations? | raising workers’ wages, shortening the workweek, introducing the assembly line in automobile production |
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