Vocabulary
A reduction of armed forces and weapons of war.
What is disarmament?
This was President Harding's BIGGEST mistake with his cabinet posts.
What is his friend's took advantage of the Presidents's trust?
This underminded the support for Prohibition.
What is organized crime?
Fads play a this role in 1920s American Society.
What is a sign of mass culture throughout the country?
Darwin’s theory of evolution contradicted biblical ideas explained the clash between old and new values in this trial.
What is the Scopes Trial?
A person who leaves his or her own country and takes up residence in a foreign land.
What is an expatriate?
The evidence that some to believe corruption may have led to Harding's heart attack.
What is Charles Forbes convicted of stealing from the Veteran's Bureau?
This change affected women's political power the MOST in the 1920s.
What is the right to participate in politics?
This invention had the biggest influence in the 1920s on how people felt about sports stars.
What is the radio?
The prominence of nativism in American public life.
What are the early 1900s Immigration quotas?
The movement of millions of African Americans from the South to the North during the early to mid-1900s.
What is the Great Migration?
This contributed most to the growth of the U.S. economy in the 1920s.
What is business begins installment buying plans for consumers?
The invention of the automobile had MOST affect on women's live.
What is women became more independent?
Breaking free from traditional expectations of how women should behave.
What is fashion and lifestyle choice of flappers?
This group had the idea that African Americans needed to rely on themselves to better their lives.
What is the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
A 1923 proposed constitutional amendment intended to prohibit all discrimination based on gender, the amendment was not ratified.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
Coolidge's reaction to Mexico's plan to take over foreign-owned companies affect on U.S. policy.
What is allowing Latin America a larger role in world politics?
The business that experienced the greatest growth due to increasing popularity of automobiles in the 1920s.
What are gas stations?
Best reflected in F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories about people who could not find happiness in spite of their wealth.
What are the "Roaring Twenties"?
This connection exists between the prosperity of the 1920s and Herbert Hoover’s election as president in 1928
What was Hoover's political party was already in office?
A set of shared practices and beliefs that arise from widespread exposure to the same media.
What is mass culture?
This would have to happen for the Kellogg-Briand Pact to be a lasting success.
What is countries would avoid war by resolving conflicts fairly?
The rise of Hollywood movie stars most affect on American culture.
What is Americans having favorite movie stars in common?
The theme of a poem written by Claude McKay—“Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying but fighting back!”
What is protesting racism African Americans experienced?
European farm production increased after World War I.
What is the reason why the value of American farmland decreased?