The Twenties: 1919-1929 (Chapters 22 and 23)

Question 1

Mitchell Palmer

Answer 1

-Attorney General
-Anti-Communist Crusade
-Palmer Raids

Question 2

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Answer 2

-Chicago “Black” Sox Scandal (1919)
-Banned from Baseball

Question 3

Jazz Music

Answer 3

-Combination of West African rhythms and American European sound
-Born in New Orleans

Question 4

Jim Thorpe

Answer 4

-Olympian (Won pentathlon & decathlon)
-Professional Baseball & Football

Question 5

Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Answer 5

-Italian immigrants
-Charged w/ Murder
-Anarchists
-Guilty Verdict
-Sentenced to death August 1927

Question 6

Marcus Garvey

Answer 6

-Jamaican Immigrant

Question 7

18th Amendment

Answer 7

-Prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcoholic beverages
-Combat crime, Family violence, Poverty

Question 8

Speakeasies

Answer 8

-Blind Pigs

Question 9

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 9

-NY City
-Artists, Writers & Musicians
-Actor: Paul Robeson
-Poet: Langston Hughes

Question 10

John Scopes

Answer 10

-Scopes Trial
-in Dayton violates the law

Question 11

Red Scare

Answer 11

-Anti-Communist hysteria
-Rads/Immigrants seen as Commies
-36 Bombs!
-Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
-General Intelligence Division

Question 12

American Civil Liberties Union

Answer 12

-Scopes Trial
-test constitutionality of the law

Question 13

Immigration Act of 1924

Answer 13

-Only 2% of immigrants allowed
-Limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe
-Purchasing Power ^ 32%

Question 14

John L. Lewis

Answer 14

-Led United Mine Workers (UMW) Strike
-Higher pay
-5 day work week
-6 hour days

Question 15

Teapot Dome

Answer 15

-Albert B. Fall
-Transfer Navy oil lands to Gov
-Fall leased land for cattle, stocks, and cash
-Convicted bribes

Question 16

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 16

-Keep It Cool… (R 30th)
-“The business of America is Business.”
-(1924) Citizenship for Native Americans
-Cleaned up corruption

Question 17

Herbert Hoover

Answer 17

-(R 31st) beat Alfred E. Smith (DEM)

Question 18

Henry Ford

Answer 18

-Model T
-Assembly Line

Question 19

Babe Ruth

Answer 19

-Baseball most popular sport

Question 20

flapper

Answer 20

-Defied traditional standards for women

Question 21

21st Amendment

Answer 21

-1933
-Repealed the 18th Amendment

Question 22

Albert B. Fall

Answer 22

-Sect. of Interior

Question 23

effects of automobile

Answer 23

-Billboards
-Growth of Suburbs
-Auto-Tourism

Question 24

prohibition

Answer 24

-1920-1933
-18th Amendment

Question 25

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 25

-Wounded on Italian front during WW1 -"A Farewell to Arms" -Won Pulitzer for "Old Man and the Sea"

Question 26

The Lost Generation

Answer 26

-Artists who reflected the horrors of WW1 -Disillusionment -Ernest Hemingway -F. Scott Fitzgerald -T.S. Eliot -H.L. Mencken

Question 27

Clarence Darrow

Answer 27

-Scopes Trial -Defense

Question 28

Charlie Chaplin

Answer 28

-Movies

Question 29

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 29

-"Lucky Lindy" -Pilot (Spirit of St. Louis) -Flew nonstop NY to Paris -Won $25000 -Worldwide Celebrity

Question 30

T.S. Eliot

Answer 30

-"The wasteland" -Poetry: pessimism and despair

Question 31

Al Capone

Answer 31

-Chicago Mafia -$100 Million (annually) -St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)

Question 32

fundamentalism

Answer 32

-Literal interpretation of the Bible

Question 33

assembly line

Answer 33

-1909: $850 -1924: $290 -Repetitive and Boring

Question 34

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 34

-"The Great Gatsby" (Emptiness in pursuit of wealth and social status)