1920s Culture
The first American Baseball celebrity
Who is Babe Ruth?
In order to convince people to buy their goods and services companies started using this tactic.
What is mass advertising?
This president was elected on his platform of minimal government and low taxes.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
By dividing production into simple, repeated tasks, this new technology revolutionized American manufacturing.
Assembly Line
This man flew from New York to Paris solo and in one flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls
Who are flappers?
What new technological device connected Americans and provided entertainment and information in a way that was not previously possible?
What is Radio
19th
This is the name given to the movement of large numbers of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better economic opportunity and to escape discrimination.
What is the Great Migration?
In this 1920s scandal, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall accepted bribes in exchange for leasing government oil reserves
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers began to buy goods they could not normally afford and growing their personal debt by using this method
What is buying on credit/installemnt plans?
What led to Prohibition?
18th amendment
This term refers to people who smuggled or otherwise transported illegal liquor in the United States
Who are bootleggers?
This term is used to describe the growth of African American inspired music, dance, literature, theatre, and other forms of art during the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Hollywood became a major industry in the 1920s. Who was one of the early popular actor/comedian in the U.S.?
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Many Americans believed these men were executed because they were immigrants with radical beliefs.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
This term describes the fear and distrust towards those deemed as "radicals" during the 1920s. Began due to the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
Wrote The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A traditional way of thinking, rooted in a literal interpretation of the words of the Bible.
What is Fundamentalism
The name of Calvin Coolidge's economic theory were lowering taxes increases spending
One reason for American concerns over Communism
Communist Revolution or Anti-capitalism or WWI
Famous bootlegger who was arrested for Tax Fraud
Al Capone
The percentage Calvin Coolidge's National Origins Act of 1924 limited immigration to