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1920's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Took place in Harlem, many African American writers and artists emerged during this | Harlem Renaissance |
| Act that severely restricted immigration | National Origins Act |
| Trial where fundamentalist argued against the idea of evolution | Scopes trial |
| Stemmed from the National Origins Act, prejudice against Jews | Anti-Semitism |
| Pulled marines out of Cuba and renounced the U.S.'s right to intervene in Cuban affairs | Good Neighbor Policy |
| Wrote "Family Limitation" and opened the first birth control center in the U.S. | Margaret Sanger |
| Criminalized the sending of erotic things through the U.S. Postal Service | Comstock Act of 1873 |
| Established in 1934 and had the power to revoke licenses of stations that failed to operate in the public interest | Federal Communications Commission |
| The belief that one should follow the Bible in a strict interpretation | Fundamentalism |
| Racist Klan founded by William J Simmons in 1915 | Ku Klux Klan |
| Founder of the Ford Motor Company, helped develop the assembly line practice | Henry Ford |
| National constitutional ban on alcohol from 1920 to 1933 | Prohibition |
| The idea that God did not create everything and that we have evolved from primates | Evolution |
| Kept interest rates low after the war | Federal Reserve Board |
| Term used to describe those who participated in the social norms of the "Jazz Age" (1920's) | Flaming Youth |
| Originated in New Orleans in the late 19th and early 20th century, became the music genre of the 1920's | Jazz |
| The style of architecture that was widely used in the 1920's | Art Deco |
| A woman in the 1920's that did not follow the standards of behavior for the time | Flapper |