Show:
Twenties
Twenties Themes
Reaction against Progressivism
Culture
Misc.
100
Revived in the 1920s a an anti-everything, nativist movement.
What is the KKK?
100
Economic boom
What is the roaring twenties?
100
A conservative backlash against this war
What is WWI?
100
Portrayed the illusion of the American ideal.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
An attempt to keep the status quo in the Atlantic and Pacific.
What is the 5-power treaty and 4-power treaty?
200
Trial on whether evolution could be taught in school
What is the Scopes Trial?
200
Fear of Communism
What is the Red Scare?
200
Women showed more promiscuity and sexual frankness
Who were flappers?
200
Against "war propaganda," wrote The Sun also Rises, a Farewell to Arms
Who is Ernest Hemmingway?
200
Act that protected farmers' marketing cooperatives from trust persecution.
What is the Capper-Volstead Act?
300
Argued for shifting the tax burden to the middle class
Who is Secretary of Treasury Paul Mellon?
300
Mass production and consumption of automobiles
What is the Gasoline Age?
300
Progressive ideas challenged this concept
What is Anglo-Saxon superiority?
300
Anti-conformist
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
300
Highest peacetime tariff, passed by Hoover
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
400
Stemmed the tide of immigration
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924?
400
Type of stock market, rampant speculation, "something-for-nothing" profits.
What is a Bull Market?
400
Resurgence of this movement caused a backlash
What is women suffrage movement?
400
Part of Harlem Renaissance, famous black poet
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
Hoover's policy towards Latin America
What is the Good Neighbor policy?
500
The great experiment with the goal of prohibition
What is the 18th amendment?
500
Scopes Trial
What is the Monkey Trial?
500
Loosened in the progressive era, this was re-tightened in the twenties.
What is immigration?
500
Wrote many books, most focusing on Yoknapatawpha
Who is William Falkner?
500
Hoover battled the Great Depression with this
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?