Roaring 20's

Question 1

erupted in the early 1920’s. The American public was scared that communism would come into the US. Left-winged supporters were suspected. This fear of communism helped businessman who used it to stop labor strikes.

Answer 1

“red scare”

Question 2

they were both convicted of murdering a Massachusetts paymaster and his guard in 1921. They were supported by Liberals and Radicals. The case lasted 6 years and resulted in execution based on weak evidence. Mainly because Americans were xenophobic (afraid of foreigners).

Answer 2

Sacco and Vanzetti trial

Question 3

It was antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolution, anti-bootlegger, antigambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth control
It was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-“native” American, and pro-Protestant (ultraconservative uprising)

Answer 3

new kkk

Question 4

newcomers from Europe were restricted at any year to a quota, which was set at 3% of the people of their nationality who lived in the U.S. in 1910.

Answer 4

emergency quota act of 1921

Question 5

which cut the quota down to 2% and the origins base was shifted to that of 1890, when few southeastern Europeans lived in America.

Answer 5

immigration act of 1924

Question 6

This law established a Prohibition Bureau within the Treasury Department. It was under-budgeted and largely ineffective, especially in strongly anti-prohibition

Answer 6

Volstead act of 1919

Question 7

“Bars” of the prohibition era; these were illicit places of social gathering

Answer 7

speakeasies

Question 8

The act of making and transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally

Answer 8

bootlegging

Question 9

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch, denomination, or sect).

Answer 9

fundamentalism

Question 10

A highly publicized trial in 1925 in which a teacher violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school. In the trial, William Jennings Bryan argued on the side of fundamentalism, while Clarence Darrow argued for evolution.

Answer 10

Scopes Trial

Question 11

United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)

Answer 11

John Dewey

Question 12

Carefree young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

Answer 12

flappers

Question 13

United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)

Answer 13

Henry Ford

Question 14

American mechanical engineer, who wanted to improve industrial efficiency. He is known as the father of scientific management, and was one of the first management consultants

Answer 14

Fredrick Taylor

Question 15

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Answer 15

Harlem Renaissance

Question 16

income taxes for the wealthy would promote business and therefore the whole economy

Answer 16

trickle down theory

Question 17

In this court case, the Supreme Court reversed its own reasoning in Muller v. Oregon, on the grounds that women were now the legal equals of men (after the Nineteenth Amendment).

Answer 17

Adkin V Children hospital

Question 18

(1919) black populations expanded to white neighborhoods, and found jobs as strikebreakers, and they were triggered by an indecent at a beach lead to black and white gangs killing fifteen whites and 23 blacks

Answer 18

Chicago riot

Question 19

A bill introduced by John C. Calhoun to provide a federal highway linking The East and South to The West using the earnings Bonus from the Second Bank of the United States

Answer 19

Bonus Bill

Question 20

A horrible political scandal involving the private bribery of Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in exchange for government oileries. Up to that point, it was considered the worst political scandal in American History.

Answer 20

Teapot dome scandal

Question 21

US foreign policy calling for Americans to avoid entangling political alliances.

Answer 21

isolationism

Question 22

it sought to keep agricultural prices high by having the government buy surpluses to sell abroad, vetoed twice by Coolidge

Answer 22

Mcnary-Haugen Bill

Question 23

(1924) This loan program was crafted to give money to Germany so that they could pay war reparations and lessen the financial crisis in Europe; the program ended with the 1929 stock market crash.

Answer 23

Dawes plan

Question 24

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

Answer 24

18th amendment

Question 25

After a long reign of high morality, outrageous idealism, and “bothersome do-goodism”, people longed for the “normalcy” of the old America, and were ready to accept a lower quality president who would not force them to be so involved

Answer 25

“return to normalcy”