Economy
This is the use of newspapers, magazines, silent movie theaters, and radios to persuade the "everyday man" to buy products.
What is advertising?
This is the city in which the Renaissance took place.
What is New York City?
This is the nickname given to the summer of 1919, where race riots occurred in more than three dozen cities and in most instances, white people attacked African Americans.
What is Red Summer?
Fought to desegregate schools, public facilities, and housing in Southern California and the Southwest; fought for Hispanic rights
What is the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)?
This is the nickname for the 1920s as a decade.
What is the "Roaring Twenties?"
This is the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future plus interest.
What is credit?
This is the name of the movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920
What is the Great Migration?
This is the name given to the event when mobs of white residents, many of them deputized and given weapons by city officials, attacked black residents and businesses in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre?
U.S Supreme Court Case where a Japanese man challenged his inability to gain US citizenship.
What is Ozawa v. U.S.?
American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group that targeted Jews, Catholics, and immigrants, as well as African Americans in the 1920s. Takes place in Northern cities.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This is culture surrounding the buying and selling of products, fueled by advertising, mass-production, and new technology
What is consumerism?
This is the name for the broader social movement of African Americans celebrating their heritage and standing up to discrimination.
What is the "New Negro Movement?"
This is the name given to the Federal law limiting the number of immigrants that could be admitted from any country to 2% of the amount of people from that country who were already living in the U.S. as of the census of 1890 and banned immigration from Asia.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
Tried to obtain American citizenship and argued that because he was of good moral character, a veteran, and from the "pure aryan" descendants in India he should be eligible for citizenship.
What is Thind v. U.S.?
The trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This is the style of movie that people went to see in the 1920s.
What are silent movies?
This is the name of the poet who wrote the poem, "I, Too," a poem about the future and promise of African Americans in the 1920.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Prohibited aliens ineligible of citizenship from the right to own land in California, prevented them from owning land. Specifically targeted Japanese.
Gives Native Americans citizenship and the right to vote in federal elections in 1924.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924?
Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect).
What is "fundamentalism"?
This is the technological innovation that allowed for mass broadcasting inside of everyone's home in the 1920s.
What is the radio?
This is the name of the system of discrimination in the South that enabled racial segregation and discrimination.
What is Jim Crow?
This is the name of the Black neighborhood that was attacked during the Tulsa Race Massacre.
What is Greenwood?
This the name of the civil rights organization that works to end discrimination and segregation in the United States, founded by W.E.B. DuBois.
What is the NAACP?
The idea that a "bad" genetic traits could be bred out and good traits could promoted in order to improve society. Accomplished this by sterilizing many criminals and the mentally handicapped. Also sought to limit immigration into the US based on the notion that 'inferior' genes would 'degrade' the gene pool.
What is the Eugenics movement?