1920s Culture
This style of music was brought to northern cities by southern African Americans
What is Jazz?
In order to convince people to buy their goods and services companies started using this tactic.
What is advertising?
A desire to value native-born Americans more than foreigners or immigrants
What is Nativism?
This scandal exposed the corruption of the Presidency and decreased public confidence in politicians.
Teapot Dome Scandal
This term refers to people who smuggled or otherwise transported illegal liquor in the United States
Who are bootleggers?
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls
Who are flappers?
This is what made Ford's manufacturing more efficient and led to his success in the automobile industry. Later adapted into different industries.
What is the assembly line?
This President was steeped in controversy due to his multiple affairs and his Cabinet's shady dealings.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
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?
Red Scare
Chicago Gangster who was arrested for Tax evasion
Al Capone
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/installement plans?
Americas policy of foreign affairs during this time...
Isolationism
People used this term to describe an area of New York experienced a resurgence in music, dance, literature, theatre, and other forms of art in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
A consumer economy depends on what....
Consumer spending lots of money
In relation to business, what approach the American government take
Laissiz Faire
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?
This man flew from New York to Paris solo and in one flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
The news, movies, and literature that is heard across the United States.
What is Popular culture or national culture.
What two terms are used to describe buying stocks without the paying the full amount and buying them without knowing how it works
Buying on Margin and Speculation
Many Americans believed these men were killed because they were immigrants with radical beliefs.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
In order to efficiently transport, produce and sell illegal alcohol this type of illegal activity became rampant across America