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1920s Honors
1920's Honors US History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Louis Armstrong | an improvisational, early jazz musician known mostly for his trumpeting skills. |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | Italian Immigrants and anarchists Wwho were sentenced to death after being convicted of murder |
| Nativism | A hatred for foreign-born people. |
| Isolationism | Post WWI attitude that implied that Americans did not want to intervene in world affairs |
| the 18th Amendment | Prohibited the sale/consumption of alcohol. |
| the 21st amendment | repealed prohibition |
| Marcus Garvey | African American leader who wanted blacks and whites to be separate- he even wanted the Blacks to go back to Africa. Formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association to promote black pride and unity. |
| The Scopes Monkey Trial | A supreme court case where a teacher was sentenced for teaching evolution in school |
| "The Jazz Singer" | The first "talking" motion picture with sound. |
| The Harlem Renaissance | QThe Flowering of African American arts in the 1920s (in NYC) |
| Emergency Quota Act | set limitations on the number of immigrants who could enter the US based on what country they were from. |
| What was the NAACP's (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) great success in 1930? | They got a law passed that was an anti-lynching (hanging of black people in trees) |
| Why was the Universal Negro Improvement Association formed? | to promote black pride and unity |
| The first commercial radio broadcast in history was from KDKA in pittsburgh. What was the broadcast? | news of Warren G. Harding's victory in the presidential election |
| How was the FBI formed? | It was a branch developed under General Mitchell A. Palmer who was investigating potential communists in America. He appointed J. Edgar Hoover to be the head of the FBI |
| What was the "new morality" | an attitude in the 1920s that glorified personal freedom |
| What did the 21st amendment do? | It repealed prohibition |
| What did Ernest Hemingway write about? | the meaningless violence of war |
| What was the Volstead Act designed to do? | enforce Prohibition |
| Who was William Jennings Bryan? | The prosecutor in the Scopes Trial |
| Who was Oscar DePriest | First African American representative elected to Congress from a northern state |
| Who was Duke Ellington? | composer, pianist, and bandleader |
| Who was Al Capone | Gangster who made his money from bootlegging. He was convicted on Tax Evasion |
| Who was Charles Lindbergh? | 1st pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic |
| Who was Billy sunday? | former baseball player who turned into a an evangelical fundamentalist preacher |
| Who was Margaret Mead? | one of the 1st women anthropologists |
| Who was Bessie Smith? | singer who symbolized SOUL music |
| Who was the "Sultan of Swat"? | Babe Ruth. Hit 60 homeruns in a time before steroids. |
| John T. Scopes | the name of the teacher who taught Evolution in an area where that was illegal. |
| Charles Darrow | the defense attorney for John T. Scopes |
| William Jennings Bryan | the prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| What did the NAACP try to pass in 1922? | anti-lynching legislation |
| Who campaigned on "a return to normalcy"? | Warren G. Harding. He wanted things to be like they were before WW1 |
| What 1920s President said that the "business of america was business" | Calvin Coolidge |
| Henry Ford perfected the assembly line. How did he do this? | He divided the jobs into simple tasks. Each person could perfect their job. |
| What was the greatest political triumph of the NAACP occured in 1930? | the defeat of a racist judge nominated for the Supreme Court. |
| What was the first announcement made on Public Radio? | that Warren G. Harding had won the 1920 election. |
| What was the Teapot Dome scandal? | Albert B. Fall- the secretary of the Interior under Warren G. Harding, illegally allowed oil investors to drill on government land in exchange for kickbacks (money/bribeS) |
| Why didn't aviation "boom" as much as automobiles? | People were afraid of them. They were still a new novelty. |
| What was the American attitude after ww1? | isolationist and nativist. |
| the Dawes Plan | Was an idea to lend money to Germany to pay back reparations to England/France. The tresult was that Europe grew deeper into debt. |
| Who was Langston Hughes? | an African American writer. |
| Who was Margaret Mead | One of the first Women Anthropologists. |
| Creationism | God created the world as described in the Bible |
| Bootlegging | the illegal production and distribution of liquor |
| human beings developed from lower forms of life | evolution |
| eugenics | warned against breeding the "unfit" or "inferior" |
| flappers | bobbed their hair an drank prohibited liquor |
| kellogg-brian pact | attempted to outlaw war (was not able to be enforced) |
| moratorium | to stop or pause doing something |
| Albert B. Fall | 1st cabinet member to go to prison (part of Teapot Dome Scandal) |
| Robert La Follette | Progressive Party nominee in 1924 for President. |
| Who said "Four-Fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still"? | Calvin Coolidge |
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