Culture & Religion
The central conflict of the 1920 Scopes Trial was between traditional religious beliefs and what scientific theory?
Evolution
Henry Ford revolutionized American manufacturing by implementing this automated technique.
The assembly line
he movement of over 6 million African Americans from the rural South to Northern industrial cities was called what?
The Great Migration
A nationwide fear that communist radicals would overthrow the U.S. government after WWI was called what?
The Red Scare
Powerful gangster Al Capone built a multi-million dollar organized crime empire in Chicago through this illegal activity.
Bootlegging
John Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for violating what law that banned teaching evolution in public schools?
The Butler Act
Mass production on the assembly line made this famous automobile affordable for working-class families.
The Model T
Name two major "push factors" that forced African Americans to leave the rural South
Jim Crow Laws and racial violence
The practice of favoring native-born citizens and opposing foreign-born immigrants is known as what?
Nativism
Women gained the right to vote across the nation through this constitutional amendment.
19th Amendment
This group held traditionalist values in the 1920s, favoring fundamentalist religious beliefs and small-town life
Rural Americans
Buying goods on credit through installment plans allowed 1920s shoppers to do what?
Take products home immediately and pay for them in monthly installments.
Higher factory wages and greater political freedom in Northern cities were examples of these factors.
Pull Factors
These two Italian immigrant anarchists were executed after an unfair trial based on weak physical evidence.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Young, modern women of the 1920s who wore short skirts, cut their hair into bobs, and challenged traditional social norms were called what?
Flappers
This constitutional amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of intoxicating alcohol.
The 18th Amendment.
1920s advertising persuaded people to buy new appliances by convincing them that products would improve their life and social what?
Social status
This cultural and artistic movement in Harlem, New York, celebrated Black identity, literature, and pride.
The Harlem Renaissance
This French economic term means the government should NOT interfere in private business or the free market.
Laissez-faire
This invention created a shared national mass culture by broadcasting news, sports, and music to millions of homes simultaneously.
The Radio
Illegal, secret bars where citizens gathered to drink during Prohibition were called what?
Speakeasies
Shorter work hours and higher factory wages gave working-class Americans more disposable income and more of this.
Leisure Time
Musicians Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington helped spread this popular music style nationwide over the radio.
Jazz
President Calvin Coolidge famously said, "The chief business of the American people is..." what?
Business
Movies with synchronized sound that replaced silent films in the late 1920s were known by this nickname.
Talkies