The Roaring 20s
These became a popular form of entertainment in the 1920s and were created in Hollywood
What were the movies?
This popular new form of mass communication was used for everything from news about the wars to wildly popular scripted and musical programming.
What is the radio?
The "closing" of the American frontier led to increased calls for the US to seek power abroad, as demonstrated in this turn of the century conflict.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Both conservationists and preservationists were concerned with taking care of this.
What is the environment?
What are the 14 Points?
This outpouring of music, literature, and visual art in a predominantly Black neighborhood of New York City made Black excellence more visible to many white Americans in the 1920s and 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What is the auto industry?
In this migration wave, during and after World War I, African Americans escaping segregation, racial violence, and limited economic opportunity in the South moved to the North and West, where they found new opportunities but still encountered discrimination.
What is the Great Migration?
At the beginning of WWI, the US pursued this foreign policy.
What is neutrality or isolationism?
With the rise of consumer culture, many families purchased household goods using this, which was expanded and formalized after WWI.
What is credit?
Due to the rise of communism globally, America experienced two of these periods of extreme reaction against anyone perceived to have possible ties to communism, with the first occurring just after WWI.
What is a red scare?
This style of journalism exposed the corruption of big business and government through books, photographs, and newspaper articles.
What is muckraking?
The main objection Congress raised to ratifying the treaty that ended WWI was that joining this international body would limit American freedom and power.
What is the League of Nations?
This industry grew dramatically after WWI, when it worked to convince people that they needed to solve their problems with new consumer goods.
What are advertisements?
Throughout the first half of the 20th century, this general trend in where people lived that had started with 19th century industrialization continued.
What is urbanization?
This book, set in and around meatpacking factories, sought to draw attention to the poor working conditions but actually led to new food safety laws.
What is The Jungle?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This was the alternative image of womanhood, sometimes known as "flappers", that came into the American mainstream in the 1920s.
What is the New Woman?
During and after World War I, nativist campaigns against some ethnic groups led to the passage of this form of immigration restriction.
What are quotas?
In general, Progressives believed that significant help in solving the problems of modern life should come from this source.
What is the government?
This Supreme Court case ruled that urging people to avoid the draft presented a "clear and present danger" to the country during wartime and therefore punishing such an action would not violate a person's first amendment rights.
What is Schenck v. US?