Day 1 | Red Scare
Throughout the 1920s America became more nativist and passed immigration restrictions. True or False?
True.
President after the turmoil of WWI
Warren Harding
Changing attitudes/ turning point in history for social norms.The revolution in pop culture brought on by new forms of music such as jazz and blues.
Jazz Age
Movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into northern cities starting in WWI for factory jobs.
What was the Great Migration?
What type of government would an "alien red" refer to?
Communist
What did Americans fear and believe would bring economic instability and chaos?
Communism/ communist influence
A "return to normalcy" was Harding's promise to focus on what issues?
Independent young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion.
Flappers
In the 1920s, African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished in northern cities as a result of the Great Migration.
Harlem Renaissance
Ford Motor Company
What did the Palmer Raids try to stop?
The spread of communist ideas
Isolationism/ Isolationist
Where illegal alcohol was served during prohibition.
Speakeasy
What was a pull factor for African American leaving southern states?
Industrial jobs in the Northeast
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment (1920)
During the 1st Red Scare the government sought to capture and arrest suspected radical communists.
Mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants and especially those identified as anarchists and communists. What event was this?
Palmer Raids
Term used to describe little government regulation. Throughout the 1920s Republican presidents used this economics to help the country recover from WWI.
Laissez-faire
Case that involved anti-evolution and religious groups versus science/ teaching of evolution in public schools
The Scopes Trial
What was a lasting impact of the Harlem Renaissance for music?
It established jazz as a major musical form
Another term for the Roaring 20s. Included changing social norms, such as new dancing, hairstyles/ dress and gender roles.
The Jazz Age
Set quotas (3%)on the number of immigrants from certain countries. Idea was to keep out communists, criminals, and "undesirables" No Asians of any kind allowed. Based in fear and racism.
Emergency Quota Act
Name of the scandal involving corrupt officials in Harding's cabinet. Leased oil reserves to friends/ accepted bribes.
Teapot Dome Scandal
What happened to the crime rate as a result of prohibition?
It increased due to the rise of organized crime
What was a cause of the demographic shift created during the Great Migration?
What part of the country experienced growing African American populations during the 1920s?