Economic Boom
The 1914 Fitch description of Ford’s bolt-and-nut sequence aimed at this pair of outcomes that turned the auto from luxury to mass product.”
What are increased productivity and efficiency?
“In his 1920 'Return to Normalcy' speech, Warren G. Harding pledged 'not heroics but healing, not revolution but restoration' to guide the U.S. out of post-WWI chaos and progressive fever, aiming for this national recovery goal."
What is help the country recover from the turmoil of the previous decade?
“Amid the jazz-filled speakeasies and economic boom of the post-WWI era, the 1920s roared with easy credit buying, a nationwide booze ban, and these bob-haired, short-skirted women symbolizing newfound freedom and rebellion against Victorian norms.”
What are flappers?
Marcus Garvey impacted early 1900s African Americans by promoting this independence.
What is black cultural pride and economic independence?
This anxiety over Bolshevik influence caused the 1920s Red Scare.
What is fear of the spread of communism?
Banning alcohol in the 1920s led to this criminal surge.
What is the rise of organized crime?
A. Mitchell Palmer's 1920 raids aimed to stop radicals from spreading this ideology.
What is communist ideas?
The flapper's 1920s popularity stemmed from this change in gender norms.
What is a shift away from traditional roles of women?
Jobs in Northern factories were this type of attraction for the Great Migration.
What are economic opportunities?
1920s Quota Acts restricted immigration based on this factor.
What is immigrants' country of origin?
In the 1920s, this type of risky investment betting created short-term wealth.
What are speculative investments?
Harding's "Return to Normalcy" appealed in 1920 because voters wanted to focus on these issues.
What are domestic economic issues?
The 1925 Scopes Trial highlighted this clash between science and religion.
What is the conflict between supporters of evolution and religious fundamentalists?
Tin Pan Alley publishers created a nationwide fanbase for this in the early 20th century.
What is popular music?
Post-WWI fears led to limits on newcomers from certain regions.
What are immigration quotas?
1920s stock purchases helped the economy by doing this for companies.
What is providing money for businesses to expand?
This president's campaign slogan symbolized a desire for stability after war and unrest.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This Tennessee court case symbolized 1920s cultural tensions over education.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This activist urged African Americans to return to Africa for self-determination.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This "scare" involved raids and deportations in 1919-1920.
What is the Red Scare?
Allowing purchases on credit in the 1920s led to this consumer effect.
What is increased demand?
Promising a 'return to normalcy' after WWI's turmoil, Harding's brief presidency instead became synonymous with graft, culminating in this Wyoming oil scandal that imprisoned his Interior Secretary.”
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
Broadcast live on radio for the first time, this 1925 trial saw agnostic lawyer Clarence Darrow grill fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan on Genesis, amplifying national debates over science, religion, and modernity in a decade of flappers and jazz.”
What is the Scopes Trial?
The Harlem Renaissance advanced this later movement through cultural progress.
What is the civil rights movement?
Sparked by 1919 anarchist bombings and the Russian Revolution, these warrantless raids led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover arrested over 6,000 suspected radicals—many immigrants—resulting in 556 deportations and fueling nativist calls for stricter quotas amid the First Red Scare's peak.”
What are the Palmer Raids?