1920s Culture
This style of music was brought to northern cities by southern African Americans
What is Jazz?
In order to convince people to buy their goods and services companies started using this tactic.
What is advertising?
This president was elected on his platform of minimal government, high tariffs, and low taxes. He said "the business of America is business".
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
A belief in the promise of science and technology to improve society.
Modernism
This man flew from New York to Paris solo and in one flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls
Who are flappers?
Famous bootlegger and gangster in Chicago who was eventually imprisoned for tax evasion.
Al Capone
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What amendment instituted the nation's first graduated income tax?
This is the name given to the movement of large numbers of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better economic opportunity and to escape discrimination.
What is the Great Migration?
The first American baseball celebrity.
Babe Ruth
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What new communication device connected Americans and provided entertainment and information in a way that was not previously possible?
What movement, beginning in the 19th century, sought to curtail the consumption of alcohol and eventually led to Prohibition?
Temperance Movement
The president who sought to bring about "normalcy" after the intensity of World War One.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
Why were the 1920s called the "Roaring 20s?
They were called the Roaring 20s due to the prosperity felt by most Americans, and the social upheavals the nation underwent, such as, immigration, race, alcohol, evolution, entertainment, gender politics, and sexual morality?
The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers began to buy goods they could not normally afford and growing their personal debt by using this method
What is buying on credit/installment plans?
Many Americans believed these men were killed because they were immigrants with radical beliefs.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
This term describes the fear and distrust towards those deemed as "radicals" during the 1920s. Began due to the Russian Revolution.
What is the Red Scare?
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The Teapot Dome Scandal was this president's biggest scandal.
A traditional way of thinking, rooted in a literal interpretation of the words of the Bible.
What is fundamentalism?
Charlie Chaplin Mary Pickford, Rudolf Valentino and Douglas Fairbanks were all famous in what industry that became a major influence in the 1920s.
What is Hollywood?
This event in Europe was the primary cause of the Red Scare in America.
What is the 1917 Communist Revolution in Russia?
In order to efficiently transport, produce and sell illegal alcohol this type of illegal activity became rampant across America
What is bootlegging (organized crime)?
Who was Al Smith?