Clashing Values
For women of the 1920s, new fashions represented ________.
A. the new wonders of industrialism
B. the new wonders of industrialism
C. their new social, economic, and intellectual freedoms
D. their traditional values
Why did the mass media help unify Americans?
A. It entertained everyone with the same shows.
B. It reached millions of people who were all exposed to the same information and ideas.
C. It informed the public of national affairs and made them feel more secure.
D. It propagated societal stereotypes.
The explosion of African American arts, music, and political activity in the 1920s became known as the....
Harlem Renaissance
What was the site of a flowering of African American arts in the United States in the 1920's.
Harlem
Anger against immigrants and emerging racial tensions over jobs led to the rise of which previously defunct group?
KKK or Ku Klux Klan
Fundamentalists were active in their support for which social movement that pushed for the ratification (making official) of the Eighteenth Amendment?
Prohibition
What entertaining pastime, featuring stars such as Babe Ruth and Red Grange, rose to new heights of popularity because of the mass media?
Sports
Louis Armstrong is credited with developing an early form of this style of music, which combined Dixieland blues and ragtime, called
Jazz
How did the Harlem Renaissance transform African American society?
A. It did away with racism
B. It helped end segregation in the North
C. It made immigrants more accepted in American culture
D. It brought international fame to African American artists and spurred political activism
The 1920s movement that believed the Christian Bible was literally true and denied the theory of evolution was _____________________.
The Fundamentalist Movement
Much of the turmoil of the early 1920s was blamed on _______.
Immigrants
Women who wore makeup, drank prohibited liquor, and smoked cigarettes in the 1920s were called _______.
Flappers
_________, a prolific and original poet, became a leading voice on the African American experience in America with works such as "Dreams" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
Langston Hughes
What was the primary result of the Great Migration?
Northern cities became key centers of African American culture.
_______________ was the most famous nightclub in Harlem in which many musical greats got their start
The Cotton Club
The belief that one's homeland needs to be protected from immigrants is called _______.
Nativism
A major element of the new morality was an increase in....
the support for women's independence
The unconventional way in which many writers and artists lived during the 1920s was referred to as _______.
Bohemian Lifestyle
The first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance that had a strong defiance and hatred for racism
Claude Mckay
What was the significance of the movie The Jazz Singer?
It was the first "Talkie", or talking movie
What fact about the Sacco-Vanzetti case prejudiced the jury into convicting them for murder?
Sacco and Vanzetti were both immigrant anarchists.
Groups that wanted to restrict immigration and preserve what they considered traditional values feared the nation was being taken over by
Anarchists
What was the first musical written, produced, and performed by African Americans.
Shuffle Along
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What were the 2 key themes that were exhibited in many of the works During the Harlem Renaissance?
Hope and Pride
Disappointment and Anger
What does NAACP stand for?
Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People