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Jazz Age
Question | Answer |
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large scale product manufacturing usually done by machine increased number of products decreased cost | mass production |
this man was responsible for manufacturing the Model T on an assembly line making it the first affordable reliable automobile in the U.S. | Henry Ford |
period of falling stock prices; signals investors are worried | Bear Market |
period of rising stock prices; signals prosperity | Bull Market |
platform of warren harding (1920) to return us to a normal life after WWI; no progressive reforms; laissez fairez ecionomics | normalcy |
secretary of the interior under harding; involved in teapot dome scandal | Andrew Mellon |
scandal involving albert fall secretly leasing lands containing U.S. naval oil reserves in teapot dome wyoming to private interests and receiving bribes | Teapot Dome Scandal |
conference attended by leading nations to halt the arms race | Washington Naval Conference |
pact drawn up between us and france (signed by 62 nations) to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy | Kellogg-Briand pact |
no involvement in international politics and issues; americans wanted to be left alone to pursue prosperity | isolationism |
growing trend to emphasize science and secular (nonreligious) values over traditional ideas about religion and culure; seen n urban areas | modernism |
beliefs of those who favored a more traditonal views of relion culture and science; embraced by those in rural areas | traditionalism |
beliefs in basic truths of protestant religion including that every word of the bible was the literal truth | fundamentalism |
trend that challenged traditional ideas about marriage work etc and glorified youth and personal freedom | new morality |
Charles Darwin's theory that humans had developed from simpler life forms | Darwinism |
fundamentalist belief that the word and humans had been created by god as described in the bible | Creationism |
Tennessee state law that made it illegal to teach evolution in public schools | Butler Act |
trial of Tennessee public school teacher who was arrested for teaching evolution also known as the monkey trial | John Scopes |
established by the Emergency Quota Act and National Origins Act this system limited the number of immigrants from specific countries | quota system |
mainly rural group that targeted blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants | KKK |
name given to the leader of the invisible empire (KKK) | Imperial Wizard |
Constitutional Amendment that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol | 19th Amendment |
congressional act that made the enforcement of the 18th Amendment the responsibility of the us treasury dept. this gave the U.S. government police power | police powers |
SECRET DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS DURING PROHIBITION | SPEAKEASIES |
people that sold illegal alcohol to consumers | bootleggers |
amendment that repealed the 18th amendment and ended prohibition | 21st Amendment |
radio newspaper movies and magazines; unified the nation and spread ideas and attitudes | mass media |
film star of silent films known for his portrayal of the little tramp | Charlie Chaplin |
american hero who flew the spirit of St. Louis across the atlantic first solo nonstop flight | Charles Lindbergh |
young women who was a symbol of the changing american woman short hair rouged cheeks short skirts | flapper |
name given by Gertrude stein to american writers of the 1920's who had lost faith in their culture and society (F. Scott Fitzgerald, ernest Hemingway) | Lost Generation |
relocation of millions of African Americans to northern cities in search of racial equality jobs a better life | Great Migration |
center of African American life in new York where 200000 blacks settled | Harlem |
african american leader who immigrated to harlem from jamaica established the universal negro improvement association promoted black consciousness or negro nationalism | Marcus Garvey |
American music from that is based on improvisation combining blues ragtime and european based popular music (Louis Armstrong) | jazz |
F. Scott Fitzgerald's name for the 1920s | Jazz Age |
famous jazz trumpet player from New Orleans | Louis Armstrong |
famous harlem nightclub where black musicians and singers performed for white audiences | Cotton Club |
spreading of African American culture by novelists poets and artists | Harlem Renaissance |
most famous of African American poets | Langston Hughes |
African American writer from Jamaica | Claude Mckay |