New Inventions
The key instrument in the assembly line process.
What is a conveyor belt?
Widespread discrimination and oppression.
What is a push factor?
Women who lived bold lifestyles and wore short dresses.
What are flappers?
American people were worried that Communism was infiltrating the American Government.
What is the Red Scare?
To return America to normalcy following World War I.
What is President Harding's Goal?
This allowed factories to produces automobiles at a higher rate.
What is Assembly Lines?
Industrial economic opportunities.
What is a pull factor?
DAILY DOUBLE
A Tennessee teacher was fined $100 for teaching the Theory of Evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The attorney general start rounding up all suspected communists and deporting them.
What is the Palmer Raids?
The banning of manufacturing, transportation and selling of alcohol?
What is the 18th Amendment?
DAILY DOUBLE
Flew the first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Push and pull factors lead to thousands of African Americans leaving the south and moving to northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
People were using credit to purchase items instead of paying for them up front.
What are installment plans?
Palmer Raids, Red Scare and Nativism lead to this law being passed to limit the number of immigrants coming to America.
What are Immigration Quotas?
Women's Suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
Improved the way of life for Americans by allowing news and entertainment to be heard around the world? (Note- were originally invented for WWI)
What are radios?
This push factor was passed in the south to restrict the new rights gained by African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws? (AKA- Segregation)
Name given to authors like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote stories about America being lost.
What is the Lost Generation?
The misuse of the Theory of Evolution lead to this new idea.
What is Social Darwinism?
DAILY DOUBLE
The inability to enforce the 18th amendment and needing a new way to increase federal revenue lead to this.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The low prices of goods caused by the efficiency of production lead to this possible future problematic situation.
What is consumerism and consumption?
DAILY DOUBLE
This push factor was passed to keep African Americans males from exercising their 15th amendment right. (AKA-Voting Rights)
What are poll taxes and literacy test?
Jazz and Gospel music gained widespread popularity and writers celebrated their culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The belief that through selective breeding and sterilization the human population could improve.
What is Eugenics?
Tarnished President Harding's presidential term by accepting bribes from private oil companies.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?