Chapter 22- Cultural Conflict, Bubble, and Bust

Question 1

The 1923 Supreme Court case that voided a minimum wage for women workers in the District of Columbia, reversing many of the gains that had been achieved through the ground breaking decision in Muller v. Oregon.

Answer 1

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

Question 2

A system of labor relations that stressed management’s responsibility for employees’ well-being.

Answer 2

welfare capitalism

Question 3

A term for anticommunist hysteria that swept the United States, first after World War 1, and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.

Answer 3

Red Scare

Question 4

A series of raids led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920, when federal agents arrested 6000 citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.

Answer 4

Palmer raids

Question 5

The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics, prenatal education programs, and visiting nurses.

Answer 5

Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act

Question 6

An organization founded by women activists in 1919; its members denounced imperialism, stressed the human suffering caused by militarism, and proposed social justice measures.

Answer 6

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Question 7

A system of voluntary business cooperation with government. The Commerce Department helped create 2000 trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.

Answer 7

associated state

Question 8

Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G. Harding’s presidency.

Answer 8

Teapot Dome

Question 9

Policy emphasizing the connection between America’s economic and political interests overseas. Business would gain from diplomatic efforts in its behalf, while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.

Answer 9

dollar diplomacy

Question 10

The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920 with the 18th Amendment. Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

Answer 10

prohibition

Question 11

An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.

Answer 11

American Civil Liberties Union

Question 12

The 1925 trial of John Scopes, a biology in Dayton, Tennessee, for violating his state’s ban on teaching evolution. The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.

Answer 12

Scopes trial

Question 13

A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality’s percentage of the U.S. population as it had stood in 1890. The law severely limited immigration, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Answer 13

National Origins Act

Question 14

Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans, immigrants, radicals, feminists, Catholics, and Jews,

Answer 14

Ku Klux Klan

Question 15

A flourishing of African American artists, writers, intellectuals, and social leaders in the 1920s , centered in the neighborhoods of Harlem, NYC.

Answer 15

Harlem Renaissance jazz

Question 16

A Harlem-based group, led by charismatic, Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey, that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.

Answer 16

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Question 17

The idea that people of African descent, in all parts of the world, have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Answer 17

pan-Africanism

Question 18

The phrase coined by Gertrude Stein to refer to young artists and writers who had suffered through World War 1 and felt alienated from America’s mass-culture society in the 1920s.

Answer 18

Lost Generation

Question 19

New forms of borrowing, such as auto loans and installment plans, that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.

Answer 19

consumer credit

Question 20

City in the Los Angeles area of California where, by the 1920s, nearly 90 percent of all films in the world were produced.

Answer 20

Hollywood

Question 21

A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup, freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions, dancing to jazz, and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.

Answer 21

flapper

Question 22

The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad, as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s, transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.

Answer 22

soft power