Vocabulary
People
Cultural Values in Conflict
Emergence of New Values
Odds & Ends, of course!
100
Settlement houses assisted in the _____________ of immigrants.
What is assimilation
100
What post-WWI domestic policy was advocated by Warren Harding?
What is a return to normalcy.
100
Prohibition is when the ______ amendment banned alcoholic drinks
What is the 18th
100
Represented Tennessee during the Scopes trial; former Populist Party Presidential candidate
Who is William Jennings Bryan
100
A major reason for growth in American prosperity
What is the automobile
200
The purchase of any item, not for personal use, but in the hope of selling it later at a higher price
What is speculation
200
Early auto manufacturer who pioneered new production techniques
Who is Henry Ford
200
Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924, 1929 advocated the use of __________ to limit the number of immigrants
What are quotas
200
Women who rebelled against traditional values were often known as
What is flappers
200
Believed the business of America was business
Who is Calvin Coolidge
300
Reading comprehension is an ________________ part of learning history.
What is integral.
300
Convicted and executed of a robbery in part because of the hysteria against foreigners
Who are Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
300
This trial was a conflict between modern and traditional, conservative values
What is the Scopes Trial
300
These people rejected the desire for material wealth; F. Scott Fitzgerald is one example
What is the Lost Generation
300
Organized food production during WWI; Secretary of Commerce; believed in "rugged individualism"
Who is Herbert Hoover
400
The belief that the human race could be improved through breeding
What is eugenics
400
Active in the Temperance and Women's Rights Movement
Who is Frances Willard
400
The belief that the quality of society could be controlled by breeding
What is Eugenics
400
New optimism and growth of African American Culture
What is the Harlem Renaissance
400
Warren Harding is famous for this scandal
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal
500
What is nativism?
A dislike of foreigners; immigrants are seen as inferior
500
How were the economic policies of the Progressive Era Presidents different from those of the 1920s?
Progressive Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson favored government regulation of business. Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover advocated high tariff rates, low taxes and general laissez-faire attitudes toward business.
500
The location of the birth of the music industry
What is Tin Pan Alley
500
Believed in black owned businesses; led the Back-to-Africa movement
Who is Marcus Garvey
500
What 1920s court case demonstrated an increase in Nativist attitudes?
What is Sacco and Vanzetti trial