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CHAPTER 22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Warren G. Harding | took the oath to become the twenty-ninth president of the United States. He had won a landslide election by promising a "return to normalcy." |
| Calvin Coolidge | Became president when Harding died of heart attack. known for practicing rigid economy in money and words, acquired name "Silent Cal" for being so soft-spoken. He was a true republican and industrialist. Believed in the government supporting big business. |
| Equal Rights Amendment | constitutional amendment passed by Congress but never ratified that would have banned discrimination on the basis of gender |
| The defeat of Al Smith | Governor of New York four times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He was the first Roman Catholic and Irish-American to run for President as a major party nominee. He lost the election to Herbert Hoover. |
| Consumerism | a movement advocating greater protection of the interests of consumers |
| Popular Culture | Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics. |
| Mary Pickford | (1892 - 1979) A Canadian movie star who went to Hollywood in the 1920s and became known as "America's sweetheart." |
| Jazz | A style of dance music popular in the 1920s |
| Babe Ruth | "Home Run King" in baseball, provided an idol for young people and a figurehead for America |
| The Flapper | Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion |
| Women in the workplace | the number of women in workplace cannot exclusively measure changes in sex and gender norms. Attitudes towards sex, continued to change in the 1920s, a process that begun decades before. had significantly different impacts on different social groups |
| Sexual attitudes in the US | flapper redefined womanhood, premarital sex, ect. |
| The Great Migration | movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920 |
| The Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| "The New Negro" | a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation. |
| Marcus Garvey | African American leader during the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927. |
| The National Origins Act | Very restrictive immigration legislation passed in 1924, lowered immigration to 2% of each nationality found in the 1890 census. lowered immigration dramatically and, quite intentionally, almost eliminated immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe. |
| Christian Fundamentalism | individual who believes in a strict, literal interpretation of the Bible as the foundation of the Christian faith |
| The Scopes Trial | 1925 court case in which Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan debated the issue of teaching evolution in public schools |
| Ku Klux Klan | A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights. |
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