Roaring 20's
A return to normal.
What were Americans looking for life to return to after WW1?
Gave women the right to vote.
What was the 19th Amendment ratified by Congress in 1920?
Morality as a whole.
What began to decline due to the consumer culture?
He promised to pursue policies that would help American businesses grow and create jobs.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce, who was chosen as the Republican candidate.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
"Carpe Diem" or "Seize the Day"
What was the attitude of many Americans roaring into the 1920's?
Prohibited from manufacturing, selling, or consuming alcoholic beverages.
What was Prohibition?
The theory of evolution.
What theory challenged God as creator and author of life?
Although he was well-loved at his death, Harding's legacy was ruined.
What are corruption and scandals?
The stock market crash that led to the Great Depression.
What was the fluctuation of stock prices?
Life was easier in the 1920s.
What difference did washing machines, refrigerators, and telephones make?
The Black Market for mobsters to make money from.
What was an effect of Prohibition in America?
A teacher named John T. Scopes broke the law by teaching evolution, and this became national news.
What was the Scopes Trial?
Known for his honesty and avoiding scandals.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
What is October 29, 2929?
This industry took off because business was booming.
What was the advertising industry?
300,000 African Americans had left the South by 1920, and many settled in a NYC neighborhood.
What was the Harlam Renaissance?
The modernists, indifferentists and fundamentalists.
What divisions began to rise up in the Christian church?
Calvin Coolidge liked to play jokes on his bodyguards, and he had this animal for a pet.
What is a raccoon named Rebecca?
Because Hoover responded with an energetic governmental response to the crash, it was necessary to do this.
What is raise taxes?
Gathering around the radio, phonograph, or in the movie theater.
What did more and more families and friends do?
The first commercially licensed radio station.
What is KDKA in Pittsburg?
Hope that God would send a revival.
What hope did conservative Christians have when many Americans were turning their backs on God?
Americans lived in prosperity under Calvin Coolidge because he did this.
What is lowering taxes?
The large Bank of United States failed, causing a massive amount of worry among people in this month.
What is December 1930.