Progressivism and the Jazz Age
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Many people felt threatened by the changes of the Progressive Era and fought against new, modern values.
True
A collection of ideas aimed at reforms on labor laws, easing social tensions, growth of industrial wages, and increasing immigration
What is Progressivism?
This amendment grants Congress the authority to issue an income tax without having to determine it based on population.
What is the 16th amendment?
Influenced by improvisational elements, this musical style thrived during the Harlem Renaissance
What is Jazz?
This president showed resistance towards progressive and idealistic ideas, and promoted "a return to normalcy".
(Died in 1923)
Who is Warren G. Harding?
An election in which candidates are nominated into office by a direct vote
What is a direct primary?
This book, written by John Spargo in 1906, details the horrible conditions children faced working in coal mines.
What is "The Bitter Cry of Children"?
Passed in 1913, this act established a regional banking system. Shifting us away from the Gold/Silver standard.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This association fought the discrimination and segregation against African Americans. They mainly focused on lobbying public officials and working through the court system
What is the NAACP?
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
What is the 19th amendment?
This book, written by Upton Sinclair, exposed the disgusting horrors of the meat industry
What is "The Jungle"?
In 1914, Congress created this commission to monitor business. Congress gave it the power to issue "cease and desist" orders against companies thought to be engaging in unfair trade practices
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
This movement, founded by Marcus Garvey, aimed at promoting black pride and unity. The federal saw it as a dangerous catalyst for African American uprisings.
What is the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)?
The idea that businesses would form trade associations that would in turn voluntarily share information with the federal government
What is cooperative individualism?
Named after a district in NYC, this was a thriving period for African-American artists and writers. (Took place in 1920s and 1930s)
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
How did these two movements differ in their approach to gaining suffrage?
(NWSA) - National Women's Suffrage Association
(AWSA) - American Women's Suffrage Association
NWSA: focused on constitutional amendment
AWSA: focused on convincing state governments to grant women suffrage
This act was the first to regulate child labor. It placed a minimum age restriction of 14 years old on interstate commerce workers but was declared unconstitutional in 1918.
What is the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act?
This city housed one of the most prosperous black communities in the early 1900s, nicknamed "Black Wall Street".
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
An economic theory that believes lowering taxes and decreasing regulation will boost the economy as businesses and individuals will invest more of their money, thereby creating higher tax revenue
What is Supply-Side Economics?
This individual was a pivotal writer and thinker from the Harlem Renaissance. She specialized in African-American folklore, and can be recognized by her most accomplished novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937).
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Define ALL terms
Initiative
Recall
Referendum
Lobbying
Initiative - the right of citizens to present legislation for approval
Recall - the removal of an elected official via petitioning and voting
Referendum - direct voting of citizens on legislation
Lobbying - legally influencing public officials to support your cause
The two authors were considered to be a part of the "Lost Generation", or writers who migrated to the center of artistic activity at the time, Paris.
Famous books written:
1st author - "A Farewell to Arms"
2nd author - "The Great Gatsby" Who is Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This individual was the first influential writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Famous for his poetry collection, Harlem Shadows, in which he expressed a proud defiance and bitter contempt of racism.
Who is Claude McKay?
This organization fully supported John T. Scopes in his trial, as a way to oppose Tennesee's Butler Act of 1925, which banned evolution from being taught in schools
What is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?