ch 24

Question 1

Little steel

Answer 1

Reference to US steel competitors

Question 2

William green

Answer 2

Became president of AFL in 1924, was committed to a peaceful cooperation with employers and to strident opposition of communism and socialism

Question 3

Pink collar jobs

Answer 3

Low paying service occupations for women

Question 4

Philip randolf

Answer 4

Led the brotherhood of sleeping car porters, black man that made gains for his race- raised wages and shorter work days, fought for civil rights

Question 5

The American plan

Answer 5

Crusade for the open shop(no worker required to join a union), received endorsement from national association of manufacturers

Question 6

McNary-Haugen Bill

Answer 6

Required parity of grain, cotton, tobacco, and rice; pres Coolidge vetoed it twice

Question 7

Will hays

Answer 7

A former postmaster who was hired by the owners of the new trade association, motion picture association

Question 8

Flapper

Answer 8

The modern woman whose liberated lifestyle found expression in dress, hairstyles, speech, and behavior

Question 9

National women’s party

Answer 9

Led by Alice Paul; pressed on with campaign for the equal rights amendment, although it found little support in congress

Question 10

Alice Paul

Answer 10

Leader of national women’s party

Question 11

Charles Lindberg

Answer 11

First aviator to make a solo flight across Atlantic Ocean

Question 12

Lost generation

Answer 12

Gertrude stein’s description of the young Americans emerging from WWI; felt a sense of personal alienation toward contemporary America

Question 13

Sinclair Lewis

Answer 13

First American to win a Nobel prize in literature; lashed out at one aspect of modern society after another: the small town, the modern city, the medical profession, popular religion

Question 14

Charles and Mary beard

Answer 14

Most influential historians of their day; stressed economic factors in tracing the development of modern society

Question 15

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 15

New generation of black artists nd intellectuals created a flourishing African American culture

Question 16

Langston Hughes

Answer 16

Poet who captured a spirit of Harlem Renaissance when he said “I am negro- and beautiful”

Question 17

I’ll take my stand

Answer 17

Agrarian manifesto that was a critique of industrialization and the society it was creating

Question 18

Al Capone

Answer 18

Built a criminal empire based on illegal alcohol

Question 19

National origin act of 1924

Answer 19

Banned immigration from east Asia entirely

Question 20

Leo frank

Answer 20

Jewish factory manager in atlanta convicted in 1914 of murdering a female employee; mob lynched him

Question 21

D.W. Griffith: birth of a nation

Answer 21

Glorified the early klan and helped inspire white southerners to join a new one

Question 22

The new klan

Answer 22

Reborn 1915 Stone Mountain; led by William Simmons; concerned with blacks, Catholics, Jews, foreigners

Question 23

Billy Sunday

Answer 23

Pittsburg baseball player who became evangelist

Question 24

Scopes trial

Answer 24

High school teacher accused of teaching evolution; TN; fined $100

Question 25

Warren G Harding

Answer 25

29th president of US, republican, not very strong

Question 26

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 26

Bribery incident during Harding’s presidency; Albert Fall

Question 27

Andrew Mellon

Answer 27

US ambassador to U.K., secretary of the treasury

Question 28

The Man Nobody Knows

Answer 28

Book by Bruce Fairchild Barton in which Jesus is the “founder of modern business”

Question 29

Normalcy

Answer 29

Harding’s plan to return things to the way they had been before