The Roaring Twenties

Question 1

Election of 1920

Answer 1

Warren Harding won

Question 2

Warren Harding

Answer 2

Republican heavy partier used good propaganda

Question 3

Return to normalcy

Answer 3

Recovering for war/fear communism coming to US

Red scare

Question 4

Red scare

Answer 4

First
Communism was feared
KKK was revived
Nativism 
WASP-white Anglo-Saxon protestant

Question 5

Nativism

Answer 5

Restrictions on immigration-Chinese exclusion act

Question 6

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Answer 6

1907 Japanese laborers came to American there were oriental schools for Asians but they didn’t like them
Limited amount of laborers coming to US

Question 7

Origins act 1921

Answer 7

No more than 3% of nationality can come to US based on census of 1910

Question 8

National origins quota act

Answer 8

1924 lowered number to 2% and based it on 1890 census

Question 9

Updated quota

Answer 9

1929 no more than 150,000 of each nationality

Banned Asian immigration

Question 10

Scandal in harding’s cabinet

Answer 10

Teapot done scandal in Wyoming

Question 11

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 11

Albert Fall leased land to private company and closed it to other companies
Found guilty of accepting bribes

Question 12

Albert Fall

Answer 12

Secretary of interior cabinet

Responsible for all federal land

Question 13

Harding’s death

Answer 13

1923 died of heart attack

Calvin Coolidge took over

Question 14

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 14

“Silent Cal” known for being quiet yet having integrity

Question 15

Laissez-faire economics

Answer 15

Hands off-let economy do its own thing

3 presidents-Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover

Question 16

Henry ford

Answer 16

Made model t car

Question 17

Installment plan

Answer 17

Pay directly to person

“Credit”

Question 18

Model T

Answer 18

Tin lizzy

Affordable-installment plan, quick, not hand crafted, used assembly line then conveyor belt

Question 19

Automobile culture

Answer 19

Oil, rubber, steel, and glass industries took off
Roads were being built
Gas stations, vacations, and travel grew

Question 20

Airplanes

Answer 20

Became transportation after seeing they would stay in the air during WWI
Wright brothers first only was in air for few second

Question 21

Consumer culture

Answer 21

Branding and chains grew
All could experience products-began to be for convenience especially for housewives-ice box, ovens(electric), washing machine, sewing machine, telephone, iron, vacuum

Question 22

Advertising

Answer 22

Originally were long lists about the item

Changed to focus on insecuritieslike status or being single

Question 23

Prohibition

Answer 23

18th amendment ratified in 1919

Question 24

Bootlegger

Answer 24

Producers or distributors of alcohol

Question 25

Code names for alcohol

Answer 25

Moonshine, hooch, giggle water, happy juice

Question 26

Speakeasies

Answer 26

Illegal underground saloons

Question 27

Mafia/mob

Answer 27

Low profile until a 20s became suppliers for prohibition led to ride in crime

Question 28

Repeal of prohibition

Answer 28

1933 21st amendment repealed prohibition as it obviously failed It was FDR's platform

Question 29

Flappers

Answer 29

Many were young in their 20s didn't want to get married wanted to be independent and liberated Did opposite of the "norm"

Question 30

Double standard

Answer 30

Casual dating-started to not just marry who they grew up with Girls-slut Boys-"good job"

Question 31

Education

Answer 31

More finished high school then went to a trade school

Question 32

Scopes "monkey" trial

Answer 32

John scopes teacher in TN teaching about evolution which was illegal as it was against fundamentalists Clarence sorrow was lawyer and was against Williams Jennings bryan(cross of gold) was found guilty and couldn't teach in TN

Question 33

Fundamentalists

Answer 33

Takes bible as literal

Question 34

Movies

Answer 34

Started in Hollywood | 1st hub of movie making-silent films

Question 35

Jazz

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Started in New Orleans-AA culture-improvised Lewis Armstrong "Jazz age" coined by by f. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 36

Radio

Answer 36

Had advertisements 1st was about soap

Question 37

Lost generation

Answer 37

Modeled after earnest Hemingway most writers left America nf went to Europe mostly Paris as they felt disillusioned in america Became ex-patriot

Question 38

Marcus Garvey

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Didn't like how blacks were disrespected when they came back so they left-movement to Africa UNIA Deported to Jamaica for mail fraud

Question 39

UNIA

Answer 39

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Question 40

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 40

B/c great migration jobs were taken and large # of blacks were in north w/o jobs-many started to write Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes(inspiration), Countee Cullen-black pride writings

Question 41

Over reliance of industry

Answer 41

Big 3acar industry, construction, products-ran economy