A booming Economy
How did Ford increase the production and sale of automibiles?
By using assembly lines
What were the causes and effects of the Teapot Dome Scandal?
selling government oil reserves to private oil business owners and keeping the money.
How did the Scopes Trail illustrate the urban-rural split in the 1920s?
demonstrating the difference in attitudes toward science and religion
How did movies and the radio cut across geographic barriers?
Movies and radio were distributed and broadcast all over the country at the same time
How did Marcus Garvey encourage African American pride?
promoted the idea of universal black nationalism and organized a "Back to Africa" movement
How did Henry Ford increase the production and sale of automobile
by using and assembly line
What policies did calvin Coolidge favor to support economic growth?
reducing the national debt, trimming the federl budget, and lowering taxes
How did new laws change U. S. immigration policy in the 1920?
setting quotas for certain countries.
How did the new mass media contribute to the popularity of heroes
it contributed to the popularity of heroes by capturing the excitement of sports events
How did Jazz spread from it roots in the South to the North in the 1920s?
with the Great Migration of the southern workers
How did buying on margin allow more people to invest in the stock market?
if they could afford only 10 percent of the stock price the buyer could make a purchase.
How did the United States support world peace efforts during the 1920s?
hosting the Washington Naval Conference and supporting the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
How did the goals of the new KKK differ from thos3e of the old klan?
it targeted not only black people but Jews
What political gains did American women make during the 1920s?
women became more politically active
What themes did Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston explore?
Hughes captured the remarkable diversity of everyday African American Life. Hurston expressed the new longing for independence felt by so many women, black and white.
a flood of new affordable goods became available for the public
consumer revolution
helped Britain and France to repay their debts to the U. S.
Dawes Plan
What were the effects of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act?
Increased bootlegging of illegal alcohol and crime
What impact did World War I have on postwar American literature?
writers lost faith in traditional ideas and values
the flowering of African American music, art, literature in the 1920s.
Harlem Renaissance
A period of rising stock prices that American bought stock on credit
Bull market
Secretary of the Treasury under president Harding; reduce the government spending and created a Treasury surplus.
Andrew Melon
Forbade the manufacturing, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the U. S.
Eighteenth Amendment
a perspective that challenged traditional values
modernism
became the unofficial ambassador of jazz
Louis Amstrong