People of the 1920s
The famous automobile maker who revolutionized industry with the Model T
Who is Henry Ford?
President Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan that promised a simpler time after WWI
What is 'Return to Normalcy'?
The cultural conflict between city dwellers and and rural Americans in the 1920s is called this.
What is Urban-Rural Divide?
Invention in factory production and workplace management that made cars affordable for many Americans and revolutionized transportation
What is assembly line production?
The most popular form of entertainment and new mass medium for consuming information in the 1920s
What is the radio?
U.S. President that was elected due to his opposition of the U.S. having an active role in international affairs.
Who is Warren G. Harding
Successor to President Harding, credited with saying "The business of America is business"
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
1920 law that banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
Term for buying products through small payments over time
What is installment buying/ credit/ financing?
Music style born in New Orleans that spread across the country during the 1920s
What is jazz?
Famous gangster and alcohol bootlegger from the Prohibition era
Who is Al Capone?
Practice of investing in stocks, property, or other ventures in hope of making a profit
Organization that grew rapidly in the 1920s that targeted, immigrants, Catholics, and African Americans
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Borrowing money from a brokerage to purchase more securities than you could with cash alone, with the stock serving as collateral is called this
What is buying on margin?
This law allowed women to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
Pro-Business President often blamed for the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Economic philosophy that opposes government intervention in business affairs, advocates for minimal government intervention in the economy
What is Laissez-Faire economics?
1921 immigration law that established numerical limits on immigration
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
New sales practice that mass consumerism and a desire for new products
What is advertising?
List one difference between cultural beliefs of rural and urban Americans
What is, religion, diversity, traditionalism, embracing new technology, being wary vs accepting of social change?
Treasury Secretary under President Harding who cut taxes and reduced regulation
Who is Andrew Mellon?
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Region that quota laws limited immigration from due to fears of communism and radicalism spreading to America
What is Eastern Europe?
The three dangers hidden beneath the surface of the 1920s economic boom
What is wealth inequality, buying on credit, and speculation?
Popular political ideology that favors the interests of a nation's native-born inhabitants of immigrants. Popularized by the KKK.
What is Nativism?