Immigration
A prejudice or dislike towards foreign born people.
What is nativism?
Innovation that led to shared national culture
What is the radio?
The 1920s was an era of:
economic prosperity
The Red Scare was a nationwide fear of :
Communist Revolution
Famous American pilot
Charles Lindbergh
Hate group that became popular in the 1910s and 1920s motivated by ant-immigrant and anti-black ideology.
Mass media such as film and sports led to an era of:
Celebrities
What sort of policies were pushed by 1920s Republican governments?
Low taxes, low government regulation, low government spending, high tariffs, and immigration restriction
The first successful communist revolution:
The Soviet Union/ Russian Revolution
The Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural and art movement that focused on what life was like as an African-American.
Immigration laws during the 1920s were:
More restrictive than previous eras.
Young women who displayed independence from traditional feminine roles.
The Flappers
The Teapot Dome Scandal:
Was a bribery scandal between Warren Harding's Secretary of the Interior and oil companies.
The Red Scare led to suspicion of what groups of people?
Immigrants and Labor Unions
Writers who came of age during WWI. Their writing displayed disillusionment with society. Often either communist or fascist leaning.
1921 Emergency Quota Act
Placed a 3% limit on immigration from nations based on the 1910 census.
What was the Great Migration?
Millions of African-Americans moving out of the southern US to the northern and western urban zones.
American Economy 1919 to 1920:
Economic Depression
Government crack down on left wing political agitators during the 1920s.
The Palmer Raids
The Scopes-Monkey Trial
Cultural debate over the teaching of Darwin's Theory of Evolution in public schools
The 1924 Immigration placed strict limits on on immigration from everywhere but what region of the world?
The Western Hemisphere.
What were the causes of the Great Migration?
Jim Crow/Racist violence & job opportunities
Increase dramatically
Sacco and Vanzetti
Left wing anarchists executed for a murder that they may have been innocent of.
The American cultural divide could be described as:
Rural traditionalists vs Urban liberals