The New Era Flashcards
President Warren G. Harding, Repub.
- “return to ________”
- What was he for?
- Progressive Era was ____
- Americans ______ __ ______
- normalcy
- Pro-business & conservative values
- over
- moving to cities
Teapot Dome Scandal
-______ ___ ________ sold to private business
-federal oil reserves
Calvin Coolidge
-What did he believe in?
-limited gov.
Herbert Hoover
- Business prosperity from ____-____
- Hated for ___?
- 1922-1928
- bailing out business and Bonus Army incident
Causes of Business Prosperity
- Increased ______
- Scientific arrangement = ___?
- Henry Ford created?
- Increased ______ ______ with industrial output.
- productivity
- Taylorism
- assembly line
- worker productivity
Welfare Capitalism
-Stop _______
-unionization
Government Policy
-____ ______ affected world trade
-high tariffs
Labor Problems
-membership in unions did what?
-declined in the 1920s
Entertainment
- What was the radio for?
- Who wrote An American Tragedy?
- mass communication
- Theodore Dreiser
Harlem Renaissance
- Black ______ ____ and _______ identity
- Who were Jazz Age musicians?
- racial pride; cultural
- Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, “Jelly Roll” Morton
Marcus Garvey
- Tried to create the ____ __ ______ ________
- What was Black Star Line ship?
- Black _____ and ______/ black ___________
- Back to Africa movement
- Fraud
- pride;nationalism;segregation
Fundamentalism and Scopes Trial
IN THE TRIAL..
-Who defended Scope?
-Who was prosecuted?
- Clarence Darrow
- William Jennings Bryan
Prohibiton
- ____ Amendment
- What was put into act?
- Drinking became _______ __________
- 18th
- Volstead Act of 1919
- socially acceptable
Quota System
- National _____ Act
- severely limited ___________ by setting quotas
- Origins
- immigratinon
Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
-fear of who?
-foreigners and communism
