The Roaring 20's

Question 1

Great Migration

Answer 1

Between 1910-1920 two million African Americans left the South to escape racial discrimination

Question 2

Normalcy

Answer 2

President Warren G. Harding’s term for the return to peace after World War I

Question 3

Mass Consumption

Answer 3

Huge quantities of manufactured goods were available, and many people had more money to spend on them.

Question 4

Flapper

Answer 4

The new popular image of young women in the 1920s. This image included young, pretty women with bobbed hair and raised hemlines. Flappers drank alcohol, smoked and advocated independent thought. They were featured in movies, magazines, and advertising which spawned a new sense of independence that challenged the traditional family role.

Question 5

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 5

Extremely influential cultural movement in Harlem, NY. Led by African American writers that were well-educated, these individuals felt alienated from society. they called for action against discrimination. Famous figures included W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes.

Question 6

Jazz Age

Answer 6

New popular music which created a new style of dance and accompanied the excited and fun new social scene in American. Duke Ellignton was one of the most famous Jazz musicians of his time.

Question 7

Red Scare

Answer 7

1918-1919 A movement to target and eliminate internal threats within the U.S. that was spawned by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Led by Attorney General A, Mitchell Palmer, the Palmer Raids called for the police to arrest people without warrants. Many immigrants were targeted.

Question 8

Quotas

Answer 8

Nativists called for the Immigration Act of 1924, which placed limitations on the number of immigrants coming from each country.

Question 9

18th Amendment

Answer 9

Prohibition (1919) which made the sale and consumption of alcohol illegal. This proved to be unenforceable, as Americans were unwilling to accept a total ban on alcohol. The Amendment actually stimulated crime, and encouraged smuggling and bootlegging.

Question 10

21st Amendment

Answer 10

1933, ended Prohibition making the sale and consumption of alcohol legal again.

Question 11

Scopes Trial

Answer 11

1925 trial held in Dayton, Tennessee, which received nationwide attention. Darwinian evolution squared off against Protestant fundamentalism. John Scopes was a biology teacher, who violated the law by teaching evolution. Although Scopes was convicted and fined $100, Christian fundamentalism was weakened by this.

Question 12

Christian Temperance Movement

Answer 12

helps get Prohibition passed. 18th Amendment

Question 13

An unintended result of Prohibition

Answer 13

Rise of organized crime (the mafia)

Question 14

Reason why the 1920’s are often called the “Roaring Twenties”

Answer 14

reflected the changing cultural values that were occuring

Question 15

Similar view on the government’s role in the economy of Republican presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge

Answer 15

They both believed the government should limit its regulation of business activities

Question 16

Government’s role in the economy during the 1920s

Answer 16

Laissez-Faire
The government should be involved as little as possible
A time of economic prosperity after WWI

Question 17

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 17

Scandal during the Harding administration involving the granting of oil-drilling rights on government land in return for money