Social Issues
What were the key issues in question in the Scopes trial?
What is whether a public school teacher could teach the theory of evolution in the classroom.
a model-t?
What is a type of car produced by Henry Ford
Factors that led to African Americans moving to cities in the early 20th century?
What is to escape racial violence, find economic and educational opportunities, and get away from Jim Crow
Push and Pull Factors
Push factors are those that encourage a population to leave its home, pull factors are those that draw a population to another area or place.
Assembly Line
A manufacturing process where the unfinished product moves in a direct line from workstation to workstation, with parts added in sequence until the final product is completed.
Emergency Immigration Act - 1921
What is an act that limited immigration to 3% of each nationality present in the U.S. as of 1910
Charlie Chaplin was famous for
What is his silent comedy movies
What were the effects of prohibition on American society and culture?
What is a rise in organized crime associated with the illegal production and sale of alcohol, an increase in smuggling, and a decline in tax revenue.
The Great Migration
The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.
Red Scare
moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of leftist ideologies in a society, especially communism
Scopes trial - 1925
What is a high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
What role did movies and radio play in American culture in the 1920s?
What is expanding popular culture across the nation.
How did the Harlem Renaissance impact America?
What is brought notice to the great works of African American art, and inspired and influenced future generations of African American artists and intellectuals.
Harlem Renaissance
A cultural and intellectual revival of African American arts, literature, music, and more that took place in the 1920s and 1930s
Nativism
A political ideology that prioritizes the interests of native-born citizens over immigrants.
What is nativism and in what ways did it affect the politics and society of the 1920s?
What is a strong anti-immigrant sentiment, particularly targeting those from Southern and Eastern Europe, leading to restrictive immigration laws and a societal climate of suspicion towards foreigners.
How did the automobile and the concept of mass production change American life?
enabling widespread personal mobility, increasing leisure activities, significantly reshaping the social landscape, and providing easier access to jobs and services across greater distances.
What factors shaped the new morality and the changing role of women in the United States during the 1920s?
What is the passing of the 19th amendment, more women in the workplace, availability of birth control, and mass consumer culture
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans.
Prohibition
prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
What were the underlying weaknesses in the economy that resulted in America's spiraling from prosperity to depression so quickly?
What is people were spending too much money, couldn't pay off debts, and overproduction of agriculture.
What did Charles Lindbergh do?
What is he flew the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who were the key influences in the Harlem Renaissance?
Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Eric D. Walrond, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes
Volstead Act
passed in 1919 to enforce the 18th Amendment, which prohibited the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Butler Act
The Butler Act was a Tennessee law passed in 1925 that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools