Question | Answer |
political philosophy that dominated the 1920s; believed in limited government involvement in economy and favored big business over labor | Conservatism |
President from 1921-1923 | Warren G. Harding |
President from 1923-1929 | Calvin Coolidge |
President from 1929 to 1933 | Herbert Hoover |
scandal under Harding in which Sec of Interior Fall takes bribes for granting oil leases on govt land in Wyoming | Teapot Dome |
alternative name for assembly line production | Fordism |
term for company that offers jobs to non-union members | open shop |
new music form of 1920s; derived from African-American rhythms and ragtime | jazz |
idea that consumer goods dominate the market and what we consume defines who we are | consumerism |
tactic by which car companies purposely change a car's design to stimulate more sales | planned obsolescence |
buying a product and paying for it over the course of time; also known as "buying on credit" | installment plans |
women who challenged traditional gender roles in the 1920s by being more sexually promiscuous | flappers |
feminist who promoted birth control | Margaret Sanger |
religious movement of 1920s that took historical and critical view of Bible; said
Bible was not to be taken literally; urban | Liberal Protestantism |
musical, literary, artistic “rebirth” amongst African-Americans in 1920s | Harlem Renaissance |
African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes |
African-American writer of the Harlem Renaissance | Zora Neale Hurston |
most famous jazz performers of the Harlem Renaissance | Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong |
black nationalist who led the "back to Africa" movement | Marcus Garvey |
outlawed manufacture, sale, distribution of alcohol | 18th Amendment |
federal law that enforced 18th Amendment | Volstead Act |
conservative religious movement that took a literal view of the Bible; rural | fundamentalism |
group that hated blacks, Catholics, Jews, foreigners, communists; re-founded at Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915 | Ku Klux Klan |
law that limited immigration to 2% of # of foreigners from foreign nation counted in census of 1890 | Immigration Quota of 1924 |
Italian immigrants whose execution was seen by some as example of nativism | Sacco and Vanzetti |
time period in which alcohol was illegal in the US (1919-1933) | Prohibition |
aviator who flew non-stop from New York to Paris in 1927 | Charles Lindbergh |
trial that represented clash between fundamentalists and liberals in 1920s; issue was evolution | Scopes Trial |
liberal lawyer in Scopes Trial; defended Scopes | Clarence Darrow |
fundamentalist lawyer during Scopes Trial; prosecuted Scopes | William Jennings Bryan |
term for those whose literature expressed disillusionment with earlier time/values AND with materialism/consumerism of 1920s | “Lost Generation” |
naval conference of 1921 that set limits on world naval sizes | Washington Conference |
Renounced war as means to achieve national goals | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
payment plan set up by American banker so that Germany could pay off WWI war debts to Allied nations | Dawes Plan |