Chapter 15

Question 1

Anarchist

Answer 1

people who oppose all forms of government.

Question 2

Eugenics

Answer 2

is a pseudo-science (or false science) that deals with improving hereditary traits. It emphasized that human inequalities were inherited and warned against breeding the “unfit” or “inferior.”

Question 3

Flapper

Answer 3

pical of American women at the time, the flapper—a young, dramatic, stylish, and unconventional woman—personified women’s changing behavior in the 1920s.

Question 4

Scopes Trial

Answer 4

outlawed any teaching that denied “the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible,” and taught instead that “man descended from a lower order of animals.”

Question 5

police powers

Answer 5

a government’s power to control people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare, and morals—had generally been reserved for the state governments

Question 6

speakeasy

Answer 6

secret bars where people could purchase alcohol

Question 7

Bohemian

Answer 7

The artistic and unconventional lifestyle of neighborhoods that offered young artists and writers new lifestyles.

Question 8

mass media

Answer 8

radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a

broad audience—did more than just entertain

Question 9

Jazz

Answer 9

a style of music influenced by Dixieland music and ragtime, with its ragged rhythms and syncopated
melodies.

Question 10

Emergency Quota Act

Answer 10

passed in 1912

limited immigration numbers to 3% of current American population

Question 11

fundamentalism

Answer 11

wanted a return to traditional, Biblical values

Question 12

The New Morality

Answer 12

Glorified youth and personal freedom

Question 13

Carl Sandberg

Answer 13

used common speech to glorify the Midwest and the expensive nature of American life

Question 14

Eugene O’ Neill

Answer 14

One of the most innovative playwrights

Question 15

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 15

served as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I, was one writer that created “heroic antiheroes”

Question 16

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 16

most famous writer of the era

Great Gatsby

Question 17

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 17

centered in Harlem, NY
a community that promoted racial pride, artistic development and political participation
became known as the period where African American culture flowered and flourished

Question 18

Claude McKay

Answer 18

Came to NY from Jamaica
Poetry focused on racism and segregation in America
Famous poems included the Lynching and If We Must Die

Question 19

The Great Migration

Answer 19

During World War I, the prospect of
employment and greater freedoms
spurred the “Great Migration” of African
Americans from the rural South to industrial
cities in the North.

Question 20

Langston Hughes

Answer 20

One of the most prolific, original, and versatile
writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Born in Joplin, Missouri,
became a leading voice of the African American experience in the United States

Question 21

Marcus Garvey

Answer 21

A dynamic black leader from Jamaica, Marcus Garvey, captured
the imagination of millions of African Americans
with his call for “Negro Nationalism,” which glorified
the black culture and traditions of the past.