Movements
A Protestant religious movement with a strict interpretation of scripture
Fundamentalism
a political and economic system where the government owns all property and assigns work based on what is good for the whole group.
Communism
Young women who often wore short skirts along with drinking and smoking in public.
Flapper
Persecuted Commnunists and Anarchists throughout the 1920's
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
Why where many Americans in the '20s anti-immigration?
They were scared of communism spreading to America
The Harlem Renaissance is...
a celebration of African-American culture with literature and art
What caused the "Red Scare" in the United States during the 1920s?
increased immigration, anarchist bombings, and strikes across the US. Americans were concerned a communist revolution was brewing in the US.
Invention that affected the urban sprawl of the 1920's
Automobile
Uttered the phrase "return to normalcy"
Warren G. Harding
Fundamentalism was a conservative educational movement that appealed to many people in the 1920's.
True or False?
False
Government plan to stay out of foreign affairs and focus on home country
Isolationism
Why were the Palmer Raids conducted?
After a series of bombings the Justice Department needed to investigate if there was a Communist/anarchist threat in the US.
Which of the following decreased during the 1920's?
Birthrate
Crime rate
Divorce rate
Birthrate
Philospher and inspiration to African American Artists
W.E.B. Du Bois
The quota system limited what?
The # of immigrants in the united states.
identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
Nationalism
Radical opposition to any and all forms of government
Anarchism
Buying goods over an extended period of time without paying much money was known as:
The Installment Plan
Convicted of robbery and murder in a very important trial that focused on anti-immigrant and red scare issues
The Scopes Trial banned the teaching of this subject
Evolution
The government action that made the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol illegal in the US.
Prohibition
Why was communism a threat to America?
Communism seeks to take responsibility and private property away from citizens and gives all power to the government
This was the most powerful source of communication in the 1920s
Radio
"Father" of the automobile
Henry Ford
The Teapot Dome Scandal involved a government official who profited from
allowing a private company to drill on government oil fields