Chapter 22: The New Era

Question 1

Flapper

Answer 1

A figure of new comsumption, media imeages, and urban freedom
- symbolized real changes in women’s labor force participation, independent income, edu opportunities, and consumption

Question 2

Great Migration

Answer 2

Brought a generation of American Americans to Northern citiies

Question 3

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 3

African migrants merging in Harlem to create a commericial, cultural, and political boom

Question 4

Marcus Garvey

Answer 4

Promoted a form of Black Nationalism known as Pan-Africanism/Garveyism gaining sucess and criticism from Black leaders

Question 5

Warren Harding

Answer 5

Rode anxities(labor activism, deepening radicalism) into Republican domination of Presidency lasting until Great Depression
- marked by scandal (Teapot Dome)

Question 6

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 6

Maintained Harding’s business-friendly policies, lowering taxes on wealthy and maintaining high tariffs

Question 7

Herbert Hoover

Answer 7

Elected in 1928 as a result of anti-Catholic and pro-Prohibition sentiment against Alfred E. Smith
“Associationalism: system where businesses would voluntarily limit harmful business practices for the greater economic good

Question 8

National Origins Act

Answer 8

Barred immigration from Asia and restricted annual immigration to 2% of existing US population from each nation as of 1890
**- “preserve the ideal of US homogeneity” **and place limits on immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe for Americans with these origins to fully be incorprated in “whiteness” as they no longer represented as a foreign threat

Question 9

The Scopes Monkey Trial

Answer 9

argued by Clarence Darrow againsed William J. Bryan attracted great national attention as a contest of fundamentalism vs modernism

Question 10

Klan

Answer 10

More relevant in the North and more populra in middle class, membership of over 4 million