Chapter 24 - The New Era

Question 1

Normalcy

Answer 1

Warren Hardings idea to return to the way it had been

Question 2

Little Steel

Answer 2

All of the other steel companies competing with US Steel

Question 3

William Green

Answer 3

President of the AFL, advocated peaceful cooperation with employers and opposition to socialism and communism

Question 4

Pink Collar Jobs

Answer 4

Women workers who participated in low-paying occupations

Question 5

Phillip Randolph

Answer 5

Leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Partners

Question 6

The American Plan

Answer 6

Pretext for a harsh campaign of union busting across the country, was the crusade for the Open Shop idea

Question 7

McNary-Haugen Bill

Answer 7

A bill requiring parity for grain, cotton, tobacco, and rice but President Collidge vetoed it both times it was suggested

Question 8

Will Hays

Answer 8

Head of the motion picture association. Was given the power to review films and to ban anything that would likely offend viewers…. Triggered

Question 9

Flapper

Answer 9

Modern women whose liberated lifestyle found expression in dress, hairstyle, speech, and behavior

Question 10

National Women Party

Answer 10

Pushed for the equal rights amendment, found little support in Congress

Question 11

Alice Paul

Answer 11

Head of the National Women’s Party

Question 12

Charles Lindberg

Answer 12

American Aviator nicknamed Lucky Lindy who flew the “Spirit of Saint Louis”, a single seat, single engine plane, from Long Island to Paris. This was the longest transatlantic flight in history at the time.

Question 13

Lost Generation

Answer 13

Was the nickname given to the generation that came of age during WWI once they returned from war

Question 14

Sinclair Lewis

Answer 14

American novelist and short story writer who was the first American to win the nobel prize in literature

Question 15

Charles and Mary Beard

Answer 15

they were the two of the most influential historians of the first half of the 20th century. The wrote “The Rise of American Civilization” together in 1927. Guide economic interest was central in American History

Question 16

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 16

The cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, NY during the period after the end of WWI and the middle of the 1930’s.

Question 17

DW Griffith: Birth of a Nation

Answer 17

Controversial but highly influential and innovative silent film directed by Griffith. It demonstrates the power of film propaganda and revived the KKK.

Question 18

The New Klan

Answer 18

Attacked groups that were deemed threats to an American way of life

Question 19

Billy Sunday

Answer 19

Used colorful language and powerful sermons to drive home the message of salvation through Jesus and to oppose radical and progressive groups. Sunday was an evangelists and former baseball player

Question 20

The Scopes Trial

Answer 20

John Scopes taught the idea of evolution at Tennessee school and some religious leaders were offended leading to Tennessee banning the teaching of Darwin’s Theory

Question 21

Warren G Harding

Answer 21

29th President had a bribery incident which took place in the United States in 1922-1923, Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, leased Navy reserves at Teapot Dome to private oil companies without competitive bidding at low rates

Question 22

Langsten Hughes

Answer 22

Black poet who said “I am a Negro- and beautiful”

Question 23

I’ll take my stand

Answer 23

Collection of essay published by a group of poets called the Southern Agrarians. It was a critique of industrialization and the society it was creating. Supported white supremacy

Question 24

Al Capone

Answer 24

Built a criminal empire based largely on illegal alcohol

Question 25

National Origin Act of 1924

Answer 25

Banned immigration from east Asia entirely

Question 26

Leo Frank

Answer 26

Jewish factory manager who was convicted of murdering a female employee off of scant evidence

Question 27

Andrew Mellon

Answer 27

Secretary of the Treasury who was a wealthy steel and aluminum tycoon.

Question 28

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 28

In Wyoming, Albert Fall, secretary of the interior, secretly leased naval oil reserves to two wealthy businessmen and received nearly half a million dollars in “loans” to ease his private financial troubles. He was ultimately convicted of bribery and sentenced to a year in prison.

Question 29

The Man Nobody Knows

Answer 29

One of the most successful books of the 1920s due to the advertising executive Bruce Barton. It portrayed Jesus Christ as not only a religious prophet but also a super salesman. Bruce advertised the message that Jesus had been concerned with living a full and rewarding life and that men and women of the twentieth century should do the same.