Politics and Policy
Harding’s campaign promise to return America to pre–World War I conditions was called this.
What is a return to normalcy?
The 1920s saw a rising pattern of this hostility toward immigrants.
What is nativism?
Between 1910 and 1940, about 1.5 million African Americans moved from the South to Northern cities during this event.
What is the Great Migration?
Women known as this defied social norms by wearing short skirts and bobbed hair.
Who are flappers?
The 1920s saw a new focus on buying goods like cars, radios, and appliances, marking a shift toward this cultural and economic trend.
What is consumerism?
During the 1920s, the U.S. adopted this type of foreign policy to avoid involvement in world affairs.
What is isolationism?
Immigrants were often accused of bringing radical ideas like communism, leading to this period of fear.
What is the Red Scare?
African Americans left the South to get away from these policies requiring racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This style of music, born in New Orleans, spread nationwide during the 1920s.
What is jazz?
The ability to buy cars, appliances, and radios was made easier by rising incomes and the widespread use of this payment system.
What is buying on credit or installment plans?
This policy allowed U.S. banks to loan money to Germany to pay their war reparations to American allies, who then repaid their war loans to U.S. banks
What is the Dawes Plan?
These raids, ordered by the U.S. Attorney General violated civil liberties in the hunt for radicals.
What are the Palmer Raids?
Anti-immigrant and racist sentiments allowed for a resurgence of this organization during the 1920s
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Prohibition outlawed alcohol, leading to a rise in organized crime and secret bars known as these.
What are speakeasies?
The growth of this industry drove the growth in related industries such as steel, rubber and oil.
What is the automobile industry?
This president’s administration was damaged by scandals such as the Teapot Dome affair.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This 1924 law placed strict limits on immigration and banned immigrants from Asia.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924 (or National Origins Act)?
This 1919 outbreak of violence in Northern cities showed tensions between new Black residents and white workers.
What is the Red Summer?
This trial symbolized the clash between modern science and traditional religion in education.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
The rise of automobile ownership allowed many Americans to move here, commuting to cities for work.
What are suburbs?
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover favored policies like tax cuts, reduced regulations, and protective tariffs, reflecting a return to this approach to the economy.
What is Laissez-Faire?
Under the 1924 law, these were established to favor immigrants from Northwestern Europe and restrict others.
What are immigration quotas?
The Great Migration contributed to the growth of this major cultural movement in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The 1920s were marked by cultural conflict between these two opposing viewpoints.
What are traditionalism and modernism?
Businesses in the 1920s used this method to persuade Americans to buy new products like cars, radios, and appliances and became an industry unto itself.
What is advertising?