The Postwar Economy Booms
Henry Ford's use of assembly line technology made this product more affordable for more Americans.
What is the automobile?
When he campaigned for office in 1920 Warren G. Harding made this 3-word promise to Americans.
What is a "Return to Normalcy"?
The Palmer Raids reflected the extreme fear of immigrants in the years following World War 1, otherwise known as this.
What is the Red Scare?
The phonograph, along with this other 1920s invention that was found in many American living rooms, led to a standardized American culture.
What is the radio?
One effect of the automobile in the 1920s is that more people moved to these cleaner, safer areas outside of the city.
What are suburbs?
This affair involved the Secretary of the Interior engaging in political corruption at the federal level.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
What is the Scopes Trial?
The Jazz Singer was significant because it was the first film to feature this.
What is sound synchronized to action?
After World War I many women left the workforce. However, competition for northern factory jobs increased between returning soldiers and this group of Americans.
Who are African Americans?
Conservative politicians like Harding and Coolidge would have supported a decrease in this/these.
What is business regulation OR taxes
This law created a quota system for the amount of immigrants allowed into the country. It led to a substantial decrease in immigrants to the US.
This was the nickname given to the "new woman" of the 1920s, in part because of the type of dresses that young urban women were wearing.
What is a flapper?
This practice allowed people to afford items like new appliances, even if they didn't have the savings to pay for them outright.
What is installment buying?
This international agreement was an attempt to outlaw war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
A witness at the trial of these 2 individuals stated that the culprits of the crime "looked Italian".
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
This is the term for writers of the 1920s like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald who felt disillusioned with the cultural guideposts of the Victorian Era.
What is the Lost Generation?
This is the term for the practice of purchasing stock on credit.
What is buying on margin?
This agreement was an American stragegy to get World War I loans paid off.
What is the Dawes Plan?
Bootleggers were people who illegally bought and sold alcohol. They were violating this law that was passed as a result of the 18th amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
Even though they had earned the right to vote, women in the National Women's Party had a greater goal, which was to get this passed.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?