What era are we in
1920's
Who became president in 1927?
Calvin Coolidge
This was the first mass produced, affordable car.
Model T
This aviator went missing after attempting to fly solo around the world.
Amelia Earhart
Though many were enjoying prosperity of the 1920s, this group of people were still struggling.
This Republican president won his election after WWI with a promise to “return to normalcy.
Harding
After WWI, most American’s wanted to follow a policy of ______, meaning to stay away from foreign entanglements.
Isolationism
This Jamaican-born activist was a black nationalist who started the UNIA.
Marcus Garvey
These writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, were very critical of 1920s culture.
Lost Generation
This terrorist organization that targeted African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and anyone they deemed “un-American” had a resurgence during the 1920s.
KKK
“Radical Immigrants Deported”
“Bombs Explode on Wall Street
“Palmer Raids Criticized by Congress”
These are all a part of what?
Red Scare
This surge of black culture centered around literature, music, art, and racial pride featured writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Hurston
Harlem Renaissance
Who wore short dresses and smoked and drank?
flappers
Newspaper, radio, and other widespread advertising methods. Used to promote WWI, but during the 1920s promoted consumerism.
Mass media
Traditionalists did not want this to be taught in schools.
Theory of Evolution
This agreement between 14 countries and the US outlawed war.
Kellog-Briand Pact
This was the nickname for President Harding’s corrupt friends that he placed into high ranking political positions.
Ohio Gang
This new method of mass production helped make products faster and cheaper.
Assembly Line
An increase in this feeling led to limitations on immigration such as the Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act.
Nativism
These helped people buy new products and technology by making small payments over time.
Installment plans (credit)
The Dawes Plan helped this country, who was blamed for WWI, to repay its war debts to the Allies.
Germany
Teaching the theory of evolution
Albert Fall was imprisoned for taking bribes and giving oil drilling rights to a company during this scandal during the Harding administration.
Teapot-Dome Scandal
Modernists and Fundamentalists clashed over this issue involving the banning of alcohol. Modernists were against it, and Traditionalists supported it.
Prohibition
This famous trial occurred when a teacher in Tennessee taught evolution to his students and was subsequently arrested.