Politics of the 20's
This President was involved in many scandals and died-in office-of a heart attack.
Who was Harding?
The Act of divided operations into simple tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum is called what?
What is an assembly line?
A belief that one’s native land needs to be protected against immigrants.
What is Nativism?
Writers of this generation called themselves this because they were disillusioned by a growing consumer society, and their writing reflected this.
What is the "Lost Generation"?
The act of thousands of African Americans moved from the south to the north in search of better jobs.
What was the Great Migration?
This president took Harding's place as president and was afterward elected to the office.
Who is Coolidge?
This invention allowed people to listen to music, sports, news, live speeches and stories or soap operas from the privacy of their homes.
What is Radio?
These 2 Italian immigrants were anarchist, and accused of killing 2 people at a shoe factory. The evidence against them was questionable. It is believed that they were convicted because they were immigrants.
Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
This term describes the art of the 1920's, weird, insane, cheap, meaningless. An example of this is the Screamer and melting clocks.
What is surreal?
This is the place in New York City that many African Americans moved to and a cultural rebirth occurred, especially in the area of Art and music.
What is Harlem?
This secretary of the treasury invented the Supply-side Economics, which cut down income taxes for all Americans.
Who is Mellon?
The ability to borrow money with the intent to pay it back in small payments .
What is Credit?
This is a woman that cut her hair short, wore short skirts and makeup, smoked and drank in public, went out unchaperoned and got jobs (so they were not under the authority of a father or husband), but had freedoms.
What is a Flapper?
Silent films were popular. They used this musical instrument to provide music-music to enhance the acts and emotions of the movie.
What is the piano?
This Trumpet player, born in New Orleans, became the face of Jazz music.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This term refers to the attitude of the United States' desire to stay out of foreign affairs, especially those of Europe.
What is Isolationism?
The act of making you think you need a product, or shaming you into thinking you are inadequate if you do not have/purchaser/use a specific product.
What is Mass advertising?
This amendment made the sale, transportation, making and consumption of alcoholic beverages illegal.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This term is how many writers wanted to portray life in their changing society. It means life has no point.
What is meaningless?
This was an artistic development, racial pride, political organization combined with a flowering of African American art that started and flourished in Harlem, New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This plan, created by senator Dawes, loaned money to Germany so they could pay France & England. This enabled France & England to pay the US back for war debts.
What is the Dawes Plan?
This man used the assembly line to make Model T cars and became a millionaire.
Who is Henry Ford?
This Italian immigrant became the most Notorious Gangster in all America.
Who is Al Capone?
New inventions, like the electric iron, vacuum cleaner, refrigerator, telephone, cars, etc. combined with an 8- hour workday, gave people more of this.
What is leisure time?
This is the organization that worked for the betterment of Colored peoples of the US, battling against lynchings and improving the economic & political positions.
What is the NAACP?