1920s Culture
This style of music was brought to northern cities by African Americans due their migration from the south and then became popular all across the country?
What is Jazz?
In order to convince people to buy their goods and services companies started using this tactic.
What is advertising?
Calvin Coolidge was elected president on his platform of minimal government (laissez faire), high tariffs, and low taxes. What political party did he represent that dominated government throughout the 1920s?
Republic (conservative)
What were the goals of Prohibition?
Reduce poverty, unemployment, domestic abuse, alcoholism
This man flew from New York to Paris solo and in one flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls, representing the changing society of the '20s.
Who are flappers?
What new technological device connected Americans, provided entertainment and information in a way that was not previously possible, and encouraged consumerism?
Radio
19th
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?
How did the invention of the automobile change the lives of men and women in the 1920s?
Gave them more freedom and independence than ever before.
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/installemnt plans?
Which amendment led to Prohibition?
Which repealed it?
18th amendment
21st amendment
The Scopes trial was about whether or not to teach this in schools.
What is evolution?
Who was the most popular baseball hero of the 1920s?
Babe Ruth
People used this term to describe the growth in music, dance, literature, theatre, and other forms of art in Harlem in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
What are the 4 stages of the business cycle? Which one was the 1920s in for most of the decade?
Expansion, Peak, Contraction & Trough
Expansion
Grandfather clause, poll taxes, literacy test
What did literature and art of the Harlem Renaissance represent?
African American culture. African American's struggles. Story of the Great Migration.
What groups were left behind in the national prosperity that many others were experiencing in the 1920s?
Farmers, Coal Miners, Textile Workers, Railroad Workers, Unskilled Laborers
A traditional way of thinking, rooted in a literal interpretation of the words of the Bible. There was a movement in many southern states centered around this.
fundamentalism
What factors contributed to economic growth during the 1920s?
Improved technology, more efficient/faster production (assembly line/specialization of labor), cheaper products, increased consumerism, lower taxes, increased income (growth of middle class)
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?
In order to efficiently transport, produce and sell illegal alcohol this type of illegal activity became rampant across America
What is organized crime?
(Mafia, Bootlegging)
These were organized to root out groups whose activities posed a clear danger to the country and targeted communist groups and those with ties to anarchy.
What are the Palmer Raids?