The Beginning Of Modern America: The 1920s

Question 0

National Origins Act

Answer 0

Anti-immigration federal legislation that took the number of immigrants from each country in 1890 and stated that immigration from those countries could be no more than 2% of that
Prohibited asian immigration
Severely halted immigration from southern and Eastern Europe

Question 1

Palmer Raids

Answer 1

Part of the Red Scare
Arrested foreigners
Violated the constitution
Led by A. Mitchell Palmer- the “Fighting Quaker” (known as the “Quaking Fighter” after his house was bombed)

Question 2

Scopes trial

Answer 2

Trail of teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution (Darwinism)
In Dayton, TN (Bible Belt)
Lawyer: Charles Darrow
Prosecutor: WJB

Question 3

Jazz Age

Answer 3

Image of the 1920s that emphasized the more relaxed social attitudes of the decade
Ex. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

Question 4

Flapper

Answer 4

The “new woman” of the 1920s
Pictured with bobbed hair, a shorter skirt, makeup, cigarettes, and sexual attitude
Opposed rural America

Question 5

“Lost Generation”

Answer 5

Group of post WWI writers who in their works expressed deep dissatisfaction with mainstream American culture
Ex. Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

Question 6

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 6

The 1920s black literacy and cultural movement that produced many works depicting he role of blacks in contemporary American society
Ex. Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

Question 7

Henry Ford

Answer 7

Perfected the Model T with the assembly line
Made automobiles affordable
Used Taylorism and scientific management
Contributed to the advertising age

Question 8

Government leadership in the early 1900s

Answer 8

Dominated by republicans 
Harding, Coolidge, Hoover
Chief Justice: Taft
Controlled House of Representatives and senate 
Because based on business community 
Suppressed unions

Question 9

Harding

Answer 9

All about normalcy after Woodrow Wilson
Anti-LN
Made Andrew Mellon (richest man in America) Sec. of Treas.

Question 10

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 10

Worst scandal of Harding administration
Sec. of Interior Albert Fall put 2 oil deposits (one called Teapot Dome) under the department of the interior and he leased them to private business, got rich, and went to jail

Question 11

Marcus Garvey

Answer 11

Est. the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Wanted blacks to move back to Africa to est. their own empire
Arrested and jailed for fraud

Question 12

Emergency Quota Act

Answer 12

Limited immigration to 3% of the peoples each country living in the US in 1890
Replaced by the National Original Act

Question 13

The Jazz Singer

Answer 13

The first “talkie” movie

In black face

Question 14

The novel that supported the business philosophy of 1920s most definitively was…..

Answer 14

The Man Nobody Knows

Jesus is portrayed as a businessman

Question 15

The election of Herbert Hoover demonstrated….

Answer 15

1. Americans were attracted to self made businessmen
2. Most Americans believed that republican policies had been responsible for prosperity in the 1920s
3. Prohibition was a hot issue
4. Americans were not ready for a catholic president