History ch 31

Question 1

The chapter opens with the observation that America “turned inward.” What did the authors mean by that observation? What evidence did they offer for that observation?

Question 2

What was the “red scare?” What prompted it?

Question 3

Consider all that a renewed KKK was opposed to: what was the common thread in the things the Klan opposed? In other words, why did this era see a rebirth, rise of the Klan?

Question 4

What was the shared purpose of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924?

Question 5

What was the Volstead Act’s relation to Prohibition?

Question 6

Where was Prohibition more, less popular?

Question 7

According to your authors, what were three facts of American history and life “naïve” Prohibitionists overlooked when promoting Prohibition?

Question 8

As your text wraps up its analysis of Prohibition, does it find it to be successful in any regard?

Question 9

In the 20’s, the American public feared labor violence and revolution because it connected them with what other trends, events?

Question 10

What two factors caused the collapse of the Klan?

Question 11

Which city was the “worst” of the gang controlled lawless cities of the 20’s?

Question 12

What educational ideas does your author associate with John Dewey?

Question 13

Your authors describe advances caused by science, and then note that Fundamentalists opposed “science and progressive education.” What science do they identify that these Fundamentalists opposed?

Question 14

Also note their observation that Fundamentalists gained increased organization, unity after the Scopes Trial; some consider the Scopes Trial to be the “birth” of the Fundamentalist movement.
What was the actual charge in the Scopes “Monkey Trial”?

Question 15

In addition to government policies favoring the expansion of capital, name four other factors that resulted in an expanding economy after the war.

Question 16

What innovative method for purchase of consumer goods appeared after the war?

Question 17

What does Bruce Barton’s book tell us about the era of the 1920s?

Question 18

What was the most significant invention of the new industrial revolution of the 1920’s?

Question 19

What were the two key ingredients to Ford’s success at rapid cheap production of cars?

Question 20

Identify three aspects of American life that were impacted by the advent of the auto.

Question 21

What long-dominant industry was displaced by the rise of the auto—and by trucking?

Question 22

What were two of the negative impacts of the “demon machine?”

Question 23

Identify five impacts of air travel, as identified by your text.

Question 23

What were the two positive impacts of Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight in The Spirit of St. Louis?

Question 24

Identify three cultural trends produced by the radio.

Question 25

How did movies and radio affect cultural clashes, according to your text?

Question 26

What was the role of Freud’s writings in cultural changes in the 1920s?

Question 27

What did the 1920 census reveal about the America’s living patterns?

Question 28

What music form/genre came to represent the decade?

Question 29

What business practice drove or enabled the “big bull market” whether it was in real estate speculation or buying stocks “on margin?”

Question 30

A. Mitchell Palmer:

Answer 30

“Fighting Quaker”

Question 31

Sacco and Vanzetti case:

Answer 31

These men were convicted of the murder of a paymaster and his guard. They were eventually electrocuted.

Question 32

Ku Klux Klan:

Answer 32

An extremist, paramilitary, right-wing secret society founded in the mid-nineteenth century and revived during the 1920s.

Question 33

Volstead Act:

Answer 33

A federal act enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

Question 34

Al Capone:

Answer 34

a grasping and murderous booze distributor

Question 35

Progressive education:

Answer 35

that a child learns best by actually performing tasks associated with learning. (Britannica)

Question 36

William Jennings Bryan:

Answer 36

an ardent Presbyterian Fundamentalist

Question 37

Clarence Darrow:

Answer 37

criminal lawyer

Question 38

Andrew Mellon:

Answer 38

a conservative Republican leader that presided uneasily over the dynamic decade of the 1920s.

Question 39

Bruce Barton:

Answer 39

wrote The Man Nobody Knows:

Question 40

Babe Ruth:

Answer 40

the greatest figure of major league baseball

Question 41

Jack Dempsey:

Answer 41

American world heavyweight boxing champion

Question 42

Henry Ford:

Answer 42

founder of the model T

Question 43

Frederick Taylor:

Answer 43

a prominent inventor and engineer who sought to eliminate wasted motion. Father of Scientific Management

Question 44

Birth of a Nation:

Answer 44

glorified the KKK of Reconstruction days and defamed blacks and Northern carpetbagger

Question 45

The Jazz Singer:

Answer 45

the first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue. (Pfeiffer)

Question 46

Margaret Sanger:

Answer 46

a fierce feminist that organized the birth-control movement

Question 47

“The flapper”:

Answer 47

the goddess of the “era of wonderful nonsense”

Question 48

Sigmund Freud:

Answer 48

a Viennese physician that appeared to argue that sexual repression was responsible for a variety of nervous and emotional ills.

Question 49

Harlem Renaissance:

Answer 49

a creative outpouring among African American writers, jazz musicians, and social thinkers, centered around Harlem in the 1920s, that celebrated black culture and avocated for a “New Negro” in American social, political, and intellectual life.

Question 50

Langston Hughes:

Answer 50

a poet who wrote The Weary Blues

Question 51

Marcus Garvey & the UNIA:

Answer 51

charismatic political leader who founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Question 52

H.L. Mencken:

Answer 52

“The Bad Boy of Baltimore

Question 53

F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby:

Answer 53

a great writer who wrote The Great Gatsby

Question 54

Ernest Hemingway:

Answer 54

a writer that was affected by WWI and writes about WWI

Question 55

Sinclair Lewis:

Answer 55

a heavy drinking journalist that wrote Main Street.

Question 56

William Faulkner:

Answer 56

focused on the displacement of the agrarian Old South by a rising industrial order

Question 57

Ezra Pound:

Answer 57

a brilliant erratic Idahoan who permanently deserted America for Europe, rejected what he called “an b civilization, gone in the teeth.”

Question 58

T.S. Eliot:

Answer 58

produced one of the most impenetrable but influential poems of the century

Question 59

Eugene O’Neil:

Answer 59

America’s first world-class playwright