Vocabulary
Who Am I?
Prohibition
Immigration and Racism
Potpourri
100
Young women of the 1920's who flouted social conventions by cutting their hair,wearing stylish(yet revealing) clothing, smoking cigarettes and going to speakeasies.
Who are flappers?
100
The two newspaper owners who competed with each other for circulation and often resorted to yellow journalism tactics.
Who are Hearst and Pulitzer?
100
The 18th Amendment put a ban on the sale, production, importation and transportation but not the ________ of alcohol.
What is the consumption?
100
The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the National Origins Act of 1924 aimed so much at restricting immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe that it left a hole in the American labor force that had to be filled by this group of people.
What are Mexicans?
100
Name two ways alcohol could be obtained legally during Prohibition.
What are: 1) Through a medicinal prescription. 2) Through religious services/practices.
200
A medium of communication(radio, movies, newspapers)intended to reach a wide audience.
What is the mass media?
200
Set up Hull House which provided a nursery for working mothers. Adults also took courses in Health, Nutrition, and English.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
Congress passed this Act which was meant to enforce the 18th Amendment through federal police powers from the Treasury Department and in cooperation with state governments.
What is the Volstead Act?
200
This duo was accused, tried and executed for killing two employees of the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company and robbing the payroll. Though both vehemently proclaimed their innocence until the end, many believed they were guilty just because they were Italian and anarchists.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
200
The growing "New Morality" of the 1920's was often at odds with Traditionalist groups, one of which was this group,which believed that the Bible should be interpreted literally and adhered to in order to save society's "ills" and relaxed ethics.
What are Fundamentalists?
300
Places where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally. Usually, they exist behind "fronts" such as funeral homes.
What are speakeasies?
300
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and eventual President of the U.S., he was an extreme jingoist who fought as a "Rough Rider" in the Spanish American War.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
Cincinnati defense attorney turned bootlegger who developed a "circle" of corruption, whereby he would sell liquor through drugstores and even "hijack" his own alcohol shipments and then sell it back on the black market.
Who is George Remus?
300
A pseudo or false science that deals with the improvement of hereditary qualities of a race or breed. It also advised against breeding "superior" races with "inferior" races.
What is Eugenics?
300
He urged schools to move away from rote learning in favor of education that was tailored to fit the needs of the students.
Who is John Dewey?
400
Harding ran on the campaign slogan of a return to this______, or a return how life was for America before WWI.
What is normalcy?
400
A Danish born police reporter for the New York Sun, he brought attention to inner city over-crowding and slum conditions/issues to others with his reports and a book called "How the Other Half Lives".
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
Term coined during the Prohibition era used to describe anyone who flouts any law, especially those which are difficult to enforce (like Prohibition laws).It was the result of a nationwide contest sponsored by the Boston Herald in the year 1924.
What is a scofflaw?
400
This organization actually claimed it was fighting for "Americanism", even though it railed against Catholics, Jews, immigrants and blacks. It even hired a public relations firm to increase recruits!
What is the KKK?
400
Was the first to use steel as the skeleton for tall buildings in the United States. With the perfection of the Bessemer process, steel was now cheaper and used in more buildings.
Who is Louis Sullivan?
500
A policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
What is isolationism?
500
His letter, which described President McKinley as "weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd" helped spark the Spanish American War.
Who is Enrique Dupuy de Lome'?
500
The ratification of this Amendment in 1933 repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
500
Name 3 things that led to the Spanish American War.
What are: 1) Yellow Journalism 2) Sinking of the Maine 3) American Interests in Cuba 4) Spanish Ambassador's letter 5) Extreme Nationalism (Jingoism)
500
Name 2 ways that department store owners like Woolworth changed the practices of stores from earlier eras.
What are: 1) Sold in greater volume and lower prices 2) They offered credit, free delivery, and a set price(no haggling) 3) Woolworth’s priced most of their goods at a dime or under. 4) The low prices tempted customers to buy items they did not need. They gambled that they’d make up their $$$$ in quantity what they lost in higher prices of other stores. It worked. Woolworth’s clerks were so busy taking cash they barely had time to stock the shelves! 5) Expensive items were also brought out to the floor to entice customers of all income brackets.
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