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Roaring Twenties
VUS.10a
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What 4 types of mass media challenged traditional values during the 1920s? | 1) Radio 2) Movies 3) Newspapers 4) Magazines |
| What new type of American music was played on the radio during the 1920s? | Jazz |
| Define "Fireside Chats." | President Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio talks to the American people |
| How did movies help the American people during the 1930s? | Provided an escape from daily life during the Depression |
| What scientific theory challenged traditional religion during the 1920s? | Darwin's Theory of Evolution |
| How did Darwin's Theory of Evolution go against traditional Christian beliefs? | Conflicted with the Bible's account of the creation and the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden |
| What trial made traditional religious values look old-fashioned and silly? | The Scopes Trial |
| What two developments in the 1920s challenged the traditional role of American women? | 1) Flappers 2) 19th Amendment |
| What resulted from the challenge of open immigration to traditional American values? | Rise of a new Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
| What resulted from the challenge of Prohibition to traditional American values? | 1) Smuggling alcohol 2) Speakeasies |
| What were speakeasies? | Illegal bars during Prohibition |
| Why was radio advertising important during the 1920s? | Created national markets for consumer goods |
| What became a major new form of entertainment during the 1920s? | Silent Films |
| What was the first talking picture? | The Jazz Singer (1929) |
| Name 4 movie stars in the 1920s? | 1) Rudolph Valentino 2) Mary Pickford 3) Clara Bow 4) Charlie Chaplin |
| What were 2 fads in the 1920s? | 1) Crossword puzzles 2) Chinese game of Maj Jong |
| Who was John Scopes? | A high school biology teacher in Tennessee who taught Darwin's theory of evolution |
| What was the result of the Scopes trial? | 1) Scopes was found guilty of breaking Tennessee law. 2) Darwin's Theory appeared to represent modern America and the future. 3) Tennessee law and the Bible's account of creation appeared backward. |
| What did the 19th Amendment do? | Gave women the right to vote |
| What had been the traditional role of women in 19th century Victorian America? | Wives and mothers |
| For what did the flappers become a symbol? | Young, middle class women of the 1920s who were rebelling against the traditional role of women |
| Describe the flapper. | 1) Bobbed hair 2) Makeup 3) Short skirts 4) Smoked cigarettes 5) Drank alcohol |
| What did the 18th Amendment do? | Prohibited (forbid) the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| What were unintended consequences of Prohibition? | 1) Gangsters smuggled liquor into the United States. 2) Speakeasies 3) Attacked traditional values |
| What were speakeasies? | Illegal bars during Prohibition |
| What feeling developed among native-born Americans during the 1920s? | Anti-immigrant feeling |
| What organization grew rapidly after World War I because of anti-immigrant feeling? | Ku Klux Klan |
| During the 1920s, where was the KKK popular? | In different parts of the entire nation, instead of just in the South |
| What groups did the KKK hate during the 1920s? | 1) Roman Catholics 2) Jews 3) African-Americans |
| In the 1920s who did the KKK blame for many of America's problems? | 1) Roman Catholic immigrants 2) Jewish immigrants |
| How did Congress give in to anti-immigrant feeling during the 1920s? | Limited immigration, especially from southern and eastern Europe |
| What did the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 do? | Placed quotas on immigration from most countries |
| What are quotas? | Numerical limits |
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