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US His 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wealthy banker served as Secretary of State of the Treasury in the Harding administration | Andrew Mellon |
| Set Theories of Darwinism (evolution) against fundamentalism | Scopes Trial |
| Agreement to settle international debts from WWI | Dawes Plan |
| 1920's cultural outpouring of African Americans | Harlem Renaissance |
| First talking film staring Al Jolson | The Jazz Singer |
| Wrote about the pain and pride of being black | Langston Hughes |
| Manufacturing method in which workers preformed one step | Mass production |
| Psychologist who studied the unconscious mind | Sigmund Freud |
| Targeted blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants | Ku Klux Klan |
| Period during which stock values increase | Bull market |
| In the 20's what was happening to the income of farmers? | It was declining |
| Jim Crow | Laws that existed in the South that created strong descrimination against blacks |
| After WWI what happened that damaged the United State's reputation in the eyes of other world countries? | The United States demanded that the war debts be paid |
| What other vices did prohibition encouraged bootleggers to do that caused growth in organized crime? | Branch out in other illegal activities such as drugs, robbery and murder |
| Twenty First Amendment | Repealed the 18th Amendment dealing with Prohibition |
| Where did a black middle class emerge? | New York, Chicago, Cleveland |
| Why did Marcus Garvey's movement of moving back to Africa fall apart? | He was deported an no one was left to lead the people. |
| Method of studying and improving efficiency | Scientific management |
| Used by Henry Ford to assemble cars efficiently and more cheaply | Assembly line |
| Period of time when new goods became widely available | Consumer revolution |
| Type of credit in which a small down payment is followed by monthly payments | Installment buying |
| Form of credit often used to buy stock during the 20's | Buying on margin |
| Condition of American Economy following WWI | A brief recession followed by economic growth |
| The major result of Henry Ford's manufacturing techniques | Prices of cars went down |
| The result of many Americans' owning cars | Stimulated growth of new industries such as the hotels, motel chains, restaurants, gas stations |
| Many were enjoying the wealth of the 20's, which group of people was not? | Farmers |
| Secretary of Comerce under Pres Harding | Herbert Hoover |
| World leaders used this conference to limit international construction of warships | Washington Naval Disarmament |
| Arranges for US loans to Germany | Dawes Plan |
| The nation experienced an economic boom under this president | Calvin Coolidge |
| Pres. Harding and Coolidge favored these types of policies | Those that aided the growth of big businesses |
| Reduced the regulations on businesses put into place by the Progressives | Pres. Warren G. Harding |
| Pres. Coolidge's believed that the creation of wealth did what? | It benefited the nation as a whole |
| In the 20's, what were most national leaders planning to do to avoid war? | Join the World Court |
| What did Pres. Coolidge to help Mexican Americans and African Americans? | He did nothing, he ignored their issues |
| Outlawed the use of, production of, possession of alcohol. | 18th Amendment |
| Created to regulate immigration from specific countries | Quota System |
| Most celebrated attorney in America | Clarence Darrow |
| Provided legal defense for John Scopes when he was charged with teaching evolution in Tennessee. | The Civil Liberties Union |
| Sold illegal alcohol to consumers | Bootleggers |
| Clash of fundamentalism and modernism over the teaching of evolution | Scopes Trial |
| Largest cultural split that existed in America in the 1920's | It existed between the urban Americans and rural Americans |
| Why were urban Americans more interested than rural Americans in formal education? | Higher paying jobs in the cities required a good education |
| Initial, the Scopes Trial was a clash between... | Religion and Science |
| The Ku Klux Klan fought against this idea in America | The United States was a "melting pot" of cultures |
| Actor who player "The Little Tramp" in silent movies | Charlie Chaplin |
| Symbol of the new women of the 1920's | Flapper |
| Author of "The Great Gatsby" | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Wrote in a powerful concrete style | Ernest Hemingway |
| First movie with synchronized sound | "The Jazz Singer" staring Al Jolson |
| Popular jazz trumpeter | Louis Armstrong |
| Published folktales of Florida | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Most militant Harlem Renaissance writer | Claude McKay |
| Popular Blues singer | Bessie Smith |
| African American who organized a "Back to Africa" movement | Marcus Garvey |
| Outpouring of African American culture | Harlem Renaissance |
| Why did large numbers of African Americans migrate North during the 1920's | A chance of a better future |
| An blend of African American and European music | Jazz |
| What subject did the literature of the Harlem Renaissance explore? | The pains and joys of being black in America |
| Repealed Prohibition | 21st Amendment |
| Many African Americans who moved to New York, Chicago and Cleveland enjoyed... | Financial success |
| Why did Marcus Garve's plan fail? | He was jailed and deported to Jamaica. His plan had no leader |
| Model T | Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable on the mass market |
| Assembly line | Arrangement of workers and equipment in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | During Pres. Harding's administration, The Secretary of the Interior leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes. |
| Modernism | Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion |
| Traditionalism | People do tasks the way they have always been done. |
| Fundamentalism | Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles |
| Prohibition | Forbidding by law the manufacturing, transporting, or selling of alcohol. |
| Volstead Act | Enacted by Congress to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment |
| "wet" | Nickname given to people who argued that it did not stop people from drinking, it helped create organized crime |
| Bootleggers | One who sells illegal alcohol |
| "Spirit of St. Louis" | Name of airplane Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean |
| KDKA Pittsburgh | First radio station |
| "The Lost Generation" | Nickname given to American writers of the 1920s who searched for new truths and fresh ways of expressing those truths in their writing |
| Albert Fall | Sec. of Interior involved in Teapot Dome Scandal, leased government oil reserves to private oilmen in return for bribes. |
| Calvin Coolidge | Became US Pres. when Pres. Harding died of a heart attack, Known as Silent Cal, quiet, honest, frugal, under him the US prospered |
| William Jennings Bryan | Three time presidential candidate and long time defender of rural values, was the expert witness at the Scopes Trial |
| Al Capone | Crime boss |
| Babe Ruth | Baseball homerun king, sports hero |
| Charles Lindbergh | First man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Nick named the "Lone Eagle" and "Lucky Lindy" |
| Ernest Hemingway | Wrote "Farewell to Arms" 1929 novel about WWI, member of "Lost Generation", developed a style of writing that was concrete and as powerful as a rifle shot |
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