Roaring 20s

Question 1

How did the automobile change America socially?

Answer 1

Suburbs were created, teenagers gained more freedom and privacy, the idea of dating changed

Question 2

How did the automobile change education?

Answer 2

More people were able to go to school because they could drive to school, the idea of the one room schoolhouse disappeared

Question 3

What other industries boomed as a result of the automobile?

Answer 3

Oil, construction, rubber, steel, leather, motels, diners, gas stations

Question 4

How did Ford make automobiles affordable for the masses?

Answer 4

He used the assembly line to make it cheaper and more efficient to make cars.

Question 5

Name two push factors for the Great Migration.

Answer 5

Jim Crow Laws, lack of well paying jobs (stuck in sharecropping cycle), lynchings/hate crimes

Question 6

Name one pull factor for the Great Migration

Answer 6

Jobs

Question 7

Who did the Great Migration affect in the North and the South?

Answer 7

Race riots began in the North because wages were brought down when jobs were filled. The South had less workers and there was a resurgence of the KKK

Question 8

What was a social outcome of the Great Migration?

Answer 8

The Harlem Renaissance, the first celebration of African-American culture in the US, a congregation of artists and musicians in the north

Question 9

What is the overall importance of the Harlem Renaissance to American during the 20s?

Answer 9

African American culture became mainstream for the first time

Question 10

Name three famous artists from the Harlem Renaissance and their mediums.

Answer 10

Duke Ellington-Jazz, composition, singing
Zora Neale Hurston-writing
Langston Hughes-poetry

Question 11

Name the famous club in Harlem and its band leader.

Answer 11

Cotton Club, Cab Calloway

Question 12

Who coined the term “Jazz Age”?

Answer 12

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 13

Name three sports heroes and their chosen sport.

Answer 13

Red Grange - Football
Jack Dempsey - Boxing
Babe Ruth - Baseball

Question 14

What is Charles Lindbergh’s claim to fame?

Answer 14

He was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Question 15

How did sports and fads become so popular throughout the decade?

Answer 15

Radio

Question 16

Name one fad or news story considered superficial ballyhoo.

Answer 16

Crossword puzzles, mahjong

Question 17

Name the three presidents, in order, as well as their political party.

Answer 17

Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover.

All were republicans

Question 18

What economic policy did the three presidents adhere to? How did it contribute to the boom cycle?

Answer 18

Laissez-faire, it let businesses profit and run without government interference.

Question 19

Describe what Harding’s “return to normalcy” meant.

Answer 19

Return to the way life was before WWI

Question 20

Describe Harding

Answer 20

Shady, incompetent, weak-willed, trusting, not very smart

Question 21

Describe Coolidge

Answer 21

Quiet, conformist, stoic, laid-back, honest, frugal

Question 22

Name two scandals that Harding’s Cabinet or administration was involved in? What did each scandal entail?

Answer 22

Tea Pot Dome Scandal - Albert Fall tried to sell government owned oil to private companies
Veteran’s Bureau - Charles Forbes (head of Veteran’s Bureau) stole over $200 million from the US government and was indicted for bribery and corruption

Question 23

What was accomplished at the Washington Naval Arms Conference of 1921 and which countries were represented?

Answer 23

USA, Japan, Great Britain

Agreed to stop building battleships

Question 24

Give two specific examples of how women’s lives changed throughout the 20s

Answer 24

Fashion, women were able to wear shorter skirts and cut their hair short, moved away from Victorian styles.
Women were able to smoke and drink with their husbands at speakeasies.

Question 25

What initially allowed women to shed old roles throughout the 20s?

Answer 25

Working during the war

Question 26

Who was considered one of the most famous flappers>

Answer 26

Zelda Fitzgerald

Question 27

What two things allowed Americans to engage in mass consumption of goods?

Answer 27

Credit and installment plans

Question 28

What were Americans buying in large quantities?

Answer 28

Cars, washing machines, vacuums, radios, etc.

Question 29

How did mass consumption contribute to the ‘boom cycle?’

Answer 29

People were putting money into the market so the market was getting better.

Question 30

Scopes-Monkey Trial. Who was on trial and why?

Answer 30

Scopes was on trial for teaching evolution in school

Question 31

Scopes-Monkey Trial. Who defended him and who prosecuted him?

Answer 31

William Jennings Bryan prosecuted him and Clarence Darrow defended him.

Question 32

Scopes-Monkey Trial. Why was there so much national attention to the case?

Answer 32

It was essentially a case of Religion vs Science.

Question 33

What were the Palmer Raids? Who conducted them and why?

Answer 33

The Palmer Raids were raids of the homes of Russian-American citizens and their deportation.
A. Mitchell Palmer conducted them because he was fearful of a Bolshevik Revolution in the United States.

Question 34

What was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial about and why were they ultimately found guilty?

Answer 34

Two men were convicted of murder but were ultimately guilty of being Italian, anarchists, and atheists.

Question 35

What were the series of immigration laws passed throughout the 20s designed to do?

Answer 35

Set up a quota system to limit the number of people coming into the US from Eastern and Southern Europe.

Question 36

Where did Americans favor immigrants coming from and not favor?

Answer 36

Favored Northern and Western Europeans with less communist ties, English speaking, and whiter features, and did not favor Southern and Eastern Europe.

Question 37

What did the KKK want to fight against?

Answer 37

In addition to groups of people, they fought diversity and modernity that they felt was altering American culture

Question 38

What do all of the following have in common:
Red Scare
Resurgance of the KKK
Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 38

All are against immigrants and anything different in American culture
All highlight intolerant attitudes of American citizens during the time.

Question 39

What did prohibition specifically ban?

Answer 39

The sale, manufacturing, transportation, and distribution of alcohol

Question 40

What is the name of an illegal bar?

Answer 40

Speakeasy

Question 41

Who ran most of the illegal bars in Chicago?

Answer 41

Al Capone

Question 42

List two results of Prohibition.

Answer 42

A blatant disregard for law and authority and a rise of illegal activity and gangs

Question 43

What caused the disillusionment of the Highbrows?

Answer 43

They disliked American culture and wanted to change it. They were angry that the rest of America did not see things their way.

Question 44

Where did the Highbrows feel most comfortable?

Answer 44

Europe, especially Paris

Question 45

Name one important American author whose writing reflects “highbrow” views.

Answer 45

Ernest Hemingway

Question 46

Explain two outcomes of buying stock on margin.

Answer 46

If stock prices go up you pay off your loan and earn money.

If stock prices go down you cannot afford to pay off your loan and end up in debt.

Question 47

How does speculation within the stock market alter the value of stock? How did that contribute to the crash?

Answer 47

Over speculation causes the price of stock to increase to more than it is truly worth so that people lose money when they find out the true value of their stock.

Question 48

What day did the stock market crash?

Answer 48

October 29, 1929