1. MASS PRODUCTION & CONSUMERISM
This manufacturing method, used by Henry Ford, moved the product past workers and greatly increased output.
What is the assembly line?
This 1920 amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This 1925 trial put a Tennessee teacher on trial for teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This was the fear that communists would infiltrate the United States after the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
Harding’s campaign idea of returning to peacetime life after World War I.
What is “return to normalcy”?
This canal improved U.S. Navy mobility and expanded trade between the Atlantic and Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
Because of mass production, this happened to the price of many goods in the 1920s.
What is prices decreased (or goods became more affordable)?
Young women who wore bobbed hair, shorter skirts, and lived a bolder lifestyle were called these.
What are flappers?
The Scopes Trial highlighted conflict between modern science and traditional ____ beliefs.
What is religious (or Christian)?
Attorney General who organized raids that rounded up suspected communists, often deporting immigrants without fair hearings.
Who is Mitchell Palmer (or the Palmer Raids)?
This Harding-era scandal involved corruption over government oil reserves and outraged the public.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
German policy of sinking ships without warning that helped push the U.S. into World War I.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare (or U-boat attacks)?
These plans let consumers buy products by paying a little at a time, boosting 1920s consumerism.
What are installment plans?
Flappers challenged these ideas about how women should look and behave.
What are traditional social norms?
Authors like Hemingway and Fitzgerald who expressed postwar disillusionment belonged to this group.
What is the Lost Generation?
Laws that limited the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S., especially from southern and eastern Europe.
What are immigration quotas?
The Eighteenth Amendment banned the manufacture and sale of this.
What is alcohol?
This telegram proposed a German alliance with Mexico against the United States.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
Ford’s techniques led factories to produce automobiles at a much higher ____.
What is rate (or speed/volume)?
During WWI many women joined the ____ and later were not ready to give up those jobs.
What is the workforce?
This cultural movement celebrated African American literature, jazz, gospel, and pride in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This attitude favored native-born Americans and grew stronger due to fear of immigrants and radicals.
What is nativism?
Prohibition was repealed largely because it proved too hard to ____.
What is enforce?
Trench warfare on the Western Front often resulted in this military situation.
What is a stalemate?
Select two causes of rising auto production: assembly-line techniques and factories producing cars at a higher ____.
What is rate?
After the Nineteenth Amendment, some women went beyond voting and did this in the political process.
What is run for public office?
The Harlem Renaissance helped introduce Black culture into ____ America.
What is mainstream?
In the 1920s this group targeted African Americans, Roman Catholics, Jews, and immigrants with violence.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
The movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to northern cities for jobs and freedom.
What is the Great Migration?
Upton Sinclair’s book that exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
Mass manufacturing increased the ____ of goods available to average Americans.
What is supply (or production)?
The combination of the right to vote and more women in the workforce most changed women’s daily lives by increasing their ____ in society.
What is participation (or power / influence)?
Misapplying Darwin’s ideas to society—claiming only the “fittest” should succeed—is called this.
What is social Darwinism?
Through violence, the KKK hoped to ____ voters so they would not participate in the political process.
What is intimidate?
Marcus Garvey founded this organization promoting Black economic independence and pride.
What is the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)?
This 1896 Supreme Court case allowed legal segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?