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The Postwar Period: Society in Convulsion
The New Economy
Changes for Women
The Culture Wars
1920s Culture & Music
100
This was the name for the movement of about 1 million African-Americans from the rural South into the North and West from 1916-1930.
The Great Migration
100
Mass production of THIS consumer good was the backbone of US economic growth in the 1920s.
The automobile
100
THESE young city women broke all kinds of social norms for women by cutting their hair, smoking, drinking, wearing more revealing clothing, etc.
Flappers
100
THIS Chicago-based mobster became the most notorious example of how Prohibition encouraged disrespect for law, bootlegging, and the growth of organized crime.
Al Capone
100
THIS device debuted in the 1920s and quickly became a form of mass media that helped create a national culture and changed the way people were entertained and got information.
What is the radio?
200
THIS civil rights organization--intended to help African-Americans--saw a large rise in membership after the racial conflict of the post-WWI period.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
THIS MAN was the titan of the auto manufacturing industry in the 1920s era, whose production techniques were borrowed and adapted throughout American industry.
Henry Ford (and Fordism)
200
THIS woman stirred up controversy by publishing literature about birth control/contraception.
Margaret Sanger
200
The National Origins Quota Act of 1924 was intended primarily to limit immigration from WHICH region of the world (be very specific).
Eastern and Southern Europe: the origin of the "New Immigration" ("Europe" alone is not an acceptable answer.) The act also reaffirmed Chinese exclusion and extended this to other Asian nationalities.
200
This advancement in motion picture technology (1927) inaugurated a "golden age" for Hollywood and the movie industry.
What are "Talkies," motion pictures with audio dialogue rather than subtitles? (The Jazz Singer, 1927)
300
The US Senate rejected membership in THIS organization at the end of World War I, much to the displeasure of Woodrow Wilson.
The League of Nations (Wilson's Fourteenth Point)
300
The Piggly-Wiggly stores in Memphis were unique for THIS retail-innovation in shopping.
Self-service grocery shopping
300
These occupations greatly expanded opportunities for working women in the 1920s
Clerical/Office/White-collar jobs
300
THIS neighborhood became the negro "capital" or "mecca" for people of African descent from throughout the Western Hemisphere in the 1920s.
Harlem, New York
300
Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were two of the most famous musicians of THIS new musical genre whose popularity spread around the country and even the world during the 1920s.
Jazz
400
THIS was a short-lived but intense period of political intolerance (c. 1919-1920) inspired by the social tensions and fears generated by the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Sacco-Vanzetti case and the Palmer Raids were two notorious examples of its excesses.
The First Red Scare
400
"Buy Now, Pay Later" became the slogan for this new economic innovation in the 1920s
Consumer credit / Installment Plans
400
THIS adventurous female aviator was an example of the growing popularity and importance of the aviation industry in the 1920s
Amelia Earhart
400
THIS Dayton, Tennessee court case was ground zero for the clash between Darwinism and fundamentalism in 1925,
What is the Scopes "monkey" Trial of 1925?
400
Bessie Smith was the top-selling artist of THIS musical genre in the 1920s
Bessie Smith: "Empress of the Blues"
500
THIS Jamaican immigrant founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and ultimately promoted a "back-to-Africa" movement as a way to promote African independence.
Marcus Garvey
500
This rapidly growing industry of the 1920s manipulated the emotions and vulnerabilities of its target audience to persuade them to consume more and more goods as the answer to their problems.
Advertising industry
500
(1) This amendment outlawed the production and sale of alcohol, which became the law of the land in 1920, and (2) this amendment finally ended the Prohibition experiment in 1933. (Ran out of good questions on women, sorry.)
(1) 18th Amendment; (2) 21st Amendment
500
THIS literary and artistic awakening was symbolized by the "New Negro"--a black man or woman who was assertive, independent, and determined.
The Harlem Renaissance
500
In 1927, WSM radio programed THIS one-hour radio "barn-dance" featuring hillbilly music. It would become the nucleus around which Nashville's country music industry would grow.
The Grande Ole Opry