Chapter 8

Question 1

What was Harding’s goal for America?

Answer 1

• to return to normalcy

Question 2

Ohio Gang

Answer 2

Harding’s friends who had high positions

Question 3

Teapot Dome -

Answer 3

Private companies were leasing land from the govt illegally

Question 4

Supply side Economics-

Answer 4

lower taxes = more money for people to spend

Question 5

Cooperative Individualism-

Answer 5

businesses share ideas to be more efficient

Question 6

Coolidge
- Nickname

Answer 6

Silent Cal

Question 7

How did Harding and Coolidge plan to return to normalcy? -

Answer 7

Lower taxes, reduce debt

Question 8

Dawes Plan -

Answer 8

Loan germany $ to help pay reparations

Question 9

Washington Conference -

Answer 9

tried to limit the arms race of building navy’s

Question 10

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 10

outlaw war

Question 11

What was the importance of mass production and the assembly line?

Answer 11

• to make cars affordable

Question 12

Who made cars affordable? -

Answer 12

Henry Ford (he did not invent the car)

Question 13

Airline -

Answer 13

Transportation

Question 14

Radio -

Answer 14

Communication and entertainment

Question 15

Consumer Credit -

Answer 15

allowed people to buy things with money they didn’t have

Question 16

Mass Advertising -

Answer 16

turned the US to consumer society

Question 17

What was the cause for the rise in nativism in the Jazz Age?

Answer 17

Just got out of WW1, afraid of Germans and communist

Question 18

Sacco-Vanzetti Case -

Answer 18

Two foreigners executed for a murder with no evidence (Italian immigrants)

Question 19

National Origins Act

Answer 19

limited immigration in America

Question 20

What changes did women see in the Jazz Age

Answer 20

more independence

Question 21

What is a Flapper?

Answer 21

Women who smoked, drank, and acted out

Question 22

What was religious fundamentalism

Answer 22

conservative christians response to society changing in Jazz age, decided to be super strict

Question 23

What did the 18th amendment do?

Answer 23

Prohibited the production and sale of alcohol

Question 24

21st amendment

Answer 24

repealed the 18th

Question 25

What was a problem with prohibition -

Answer 25

Criminal organizations formed. Drinking was more dangerous

Question 26

What is Speakeasy

Answer 26

a place where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally

Question 27

What is Bootlegging-

Answer 27

the illegal production and distribution of alcohol

Question 28

How did art and literature express modern American values?

Answer 28

Consumerism, postwar depression

Question 29

Who wrote the Great Gatsby?

Answer 29

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 30

What was the first talking movie?

Answer 30

The Jazz singers

Question 31

What 2 sports were popular in the 20s?

Answer 31

Baseball & Boxing

Question 32

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 32

Great Migration → growth of african american art, pride, and politics

Question 33

Jazz-

Answer 33

created by African Americans, experimental / improv

Question 34

What are blues?

Answer 34

Music that evolved from African Americans

Question 35

What struggles did African Americans face after WWI?

Answer 35

Racism and Discrimination

Question 36

What did the NAACP do?

Answer 36

Fought for african americans rights