1920s

Question 1

Religion

Answer 1

Rising secularism in science
secularism in protestant religion
revivalism in fundementalism

Question 2

fundamentalists

Answer 2

those who interpret the bible literally

Question 3

christian business

Answer 3

Those who Jesus as the ultimate businessman

man nobody knows

Question 4

Scopes Trial

Answer 4

1925

argument about whether or not evolution could be taught in schools in tennessee

Question 5

Economy

Answer 5

rich got richer, poor stayed the same

only top 10% were making 5000/yr

Question 6

1920

Answer 6

recession

Question 7

1922

Answer 7

recovery

Question 8

unemployment

Answer 8

3%

Question 9

GNP

Answer 9

grew 3%

Question 10

overall wage

Answer 10

increased

Question 11

farmer

Answer 11

suffered because of overproduction
prices went down
no congress action

Question 12

assembly line

Answer 12

took away personal job interest

Question 13

labor union

Answer 13

membership fell from 3.4 mill to 1 mill
bc of rise in wages
social welfare capitalism

Question 14

social welfare capitalism

Answer 14

leaders and employers taking care of their employees

Question 15

fordney mccumber and smoot halley tariff

Answer 15

benefitted domestic trade

hurt farmers

Question 16

national urban league

Answer 16

old aa population worried about how new influx of aa would represent them so they set up the NUL to prevent embarrassment

Question 17

race riots

Answer 17

537 injured, 30 killed

chicago and st louis

Question 18

20s were good for

Answer 18

industries 
sky scrapers 
movies makers 
radio makers 
car makers 
electricity producers

Question 19

20s were bad for

Answer 19

farmers
southern workers
AAs

Question 20

stock market

Answer 20

buying on credit popularized
low prices of stocks
speculative bubble- not representative of actual numbers

Question 21

KKK

Answer 21

rebirth of the KKK in the 1920s

Question 22

Harlem

Answer 22

accumulation of wealth by AA

looked like a white city

Question 23

Africans Americans recruited for industrial jobs

Answer 23

caused labor competition between AA and white

urbanization

Question 24

government corruption

Answer 24

racism against AAs (police)

politicians promising AA rights but lying to get into office

Question 25

newspapers and AAs

Answer 25

spreading stereotypical reps of AAs | heavily doc.d any sort of violence

Question 26

southern urbanization

Answer 26

moved up north for job | created racial tension between them and the AAs who had moved up north

Question 27

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 27

not in effect in north, but basically still the same rules applied

Question 28

black nationalism

Answer 28

marcus garvey | united negro improvement association

Question 29

sexuality and gender in the 1920s

Answer 29

no change in regards to govt, but social attitude changed | more open interest in sex

Question 30

promiscuity

Answer 30

led to rise of birth control led to chance for women to decide whether or not they wanted to be a mother Margaret Tsanger

Question 31

flapper

Answer 31

short dresses, short hair, drank, red lipstick, smoked

Question 32

right to divorce

Answer 32

marriage should not be bondage

Question 33

homosexuality

Answer 33

looked down upon compared to another race openly gay people prevalent though (ie NYC) "curse of God"

Question 34

shepard towner act

Answer 34

birth control act

Question 35

immigration during 1920s

Answer 35

slowing | anti-imm views- thought to lower standard of living

Question 36

defining american identity

Answer 36

no real one american bc of extended immigration | non assimilation still takes away from the american identity- rude not to assimilate

Question 37

emergency quota bill | national origins act (Johnson Reed Act)

Answer 37

1921 1924 only 3% of a country's pop could come to america suffering for things they were not guilty of persecution

Question 38

saccio and venzetti trial

Answer 38

arrested for roberry and murder no connection to crime scene socialist and anarchist and immigrants executed

Question 39

quotas

Answer 39

lowered of eastern and southern european

Question 40

eugenics

Answer 40

science to perfect the american dont allow ppl with defects to reproduce limit the gene pool sterilization

Question 41

Buck Vs Bell

Answer 41

supreme court upheld the sterilization of mental institution patients

Question 42

election of 1928

Answer 42

hoover vs Al Smith laissez faire vs Progressive hoover wins

Question 43

al smith

Answer 43

``` new culture nyc antiprohibition big speaker catholic urban support ```

Question 44

hoover

Answer 44

old culture conservative prohibition