Culture
A 1920s cultural group in literature produced writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
What is The Lost Generation?
This amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol (Looking for a number)
What is The 18th Amendment
What are the increased high school enrollment and the army teaching recruits to read and write during WWI
This act limited the number of immigrants that were allowed to come to the United States
This term is how the period of time between 1921-1929 is referred to in American history
What is the Roaring 20s
These forms of mass media helped shape a shared national culutre in the 1920s (name 2)
What are Radio, Newspapers, Movies, Magazines
This 1925 trial became a national spectacle over teaching evolution in public schools.
What is The Scopes Monkey Trial
This caused a recession that lasted from 1919 to 1921
What is The end of WWI
These two Western hemisphere countries accounted for the majority of immigration after the Emergency Quota Act was enacted
What are Canada and Mexico
This book by F Scott Fitzgerald is set during the Roaring 20s and is narrated by Nick Carraway
What is The Great Gatsby
This new leisure activity was popularized in the 1920s
What is crossword puzzles, mahjong, flagpole sitting, dance marathons, or attending movies
This attonery general led raids in multiple American cities looking for suspected anarchists and communists who built bombs. He did not find any evidence of bomb making and instead trampled civil liberties unchecked by the federal government
Who is A. Mitchel Palmer?
The exponential growth of Organized crime can be attributed to this
What is Prohibition
Italian Immigrants who had anarchist views. They were executed for a crime they did not commit because they were immigrants
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
What is The temperance movement
This American pilot was the first person to cross the Atlantic in a plane in one continuous flight
Who is Charles Lindbergh
This Racist and Nativist organization saw a revitalization during the 1920s due to the influx of immigration
What is The Ku Klux Klan
Income that can be spent on non-essential items, which will lead to reckless spending during the Roaring 20s
What is disposable income
What event and what way of thought led to the wave of anti-immigration legislation of the 1920s?
What are The Red Scare (or Russian Revolution) and Nativism
These were the two famous attorneys in the Scopes Monkey Trial
Who are Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan?
A traditional American who came from the rural areas of the country who believed in a strict literal interpretation of the Bible
What is a fundementalist
This way of thought led the United States not to sign the Treaty of Versailles and keep itself out of world affairs
What is Isolationism
These factors led to the decline in union membership during the Roaring 20s (provide 2)
What are Immigrants were willing to work for low pay, Immigrants spoke multiple languages, making them difficult to organize, Companies offered vacations and other incentives to not unionize, unions excluded Black workers, and Companies made it seem like all unionists were communists
Pseudo-science like phrenology and social darwinism were used to justify this way of thought that thought White Anglo-Saxon Americans were superior
What is Nativism
This North African style became popular in the Roaring 20s
What is Egyptian