1920s Culture
This style of music was brought to northern cities by southern African Americans
What is Jazz?
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?
These acts, fueled by nativism, led to limits on immigration.
What is the Quota Acts?
Name one 1920s president
Harding, coolidge, or hoover
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
Who are flappers?
Famous bootlegger who got in trouble for tax evasion and spent time in Alcatraz.
Who is Al Capone?
What amendment gave American women the right to vote?
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?
Name three groups of people targeted by the KKK in the 1920s
What are African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and Catholics?
The first American baseball celebrity.
Babe Ruth
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 which involved putting money down and paying a monthly fee
What is buying on credit/installement plans?
the amendment involving Prohibition
18th amendment
The Scopes trial, which was a result of the conflicting views between science and religion, was about whether or not to teach this in schools .
What is evolution?
This term refers to people who smuggled or otherwise transported illegal liquor in the United States
Who are bootleggers?
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?
Ernest Hemmingway, Langston Hughes, and F. Scott Fitzgerald left the US for this reason.
What is The resentment of American culture/politics?
While there were lots of economic benefits in the 1920s, what happened to crop prices?
They decreased because of the leftover war surplus.
The race based "science" that led to sterilization of many Americans.
What is the Eugenics?
These were organized to root out groups who people SUSPECTED of being communist and led to the mass deportation of immigrants from South and Eastern Europe
What were the Palmer Raids?
A traditional way of thinking, rooted in a literal interpretation of the words of the Bible.
fundamentalism
What new technological device connected Americans and provided entertainment and information in a way that was not previously possible?
What is Radio?
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
Henry Ford's mass production of this vehicle led to more jobs in several other industries