History test #1

What increased and what decreased in the new industry?

Wages increased and work hours decreased.

Explain Ford’s business philosophy.

Making cars cheaper to increase the quantity and sales of the cars, making cars more accessible to the public.

what did the prosperity of the 1920s do for many?

People were introduced to credit. With new financial confidence, people felt more comfortable accumulating debt.

By the 1920s, what did many Americans blame on immigrants?

Americans blamed bombings, strikes, and recession on immigrants.

Who were Sacco and Venzetti?

Sacco and Venzetti were both italian immigrants and anarchists.

What were Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of?

Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty of the robbery and murder of 2 employees at a shoe factory.

Discuss the eugenics movement (What was its basis?)

Eugenics emphasized that human inequalities were inherited and it warned against breeding with the unfit and inferior.

What did nativists argue for?

Nativists argued for the superiority of the “Original American Stock”.

Who embraced the eugenics movement?

Woodrow Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge embraced the eugenics movement.

Explain what Flappers did that was not typical of most women?

Flappers smoked cigarettes, drank illegal liquor, wore makeup, and wore sleeveless dresses and short skirts.

What did fundamentalists reject?

Fundamentalists rejected the Charles Darwin theory of evolution.

Who was John Scopes

John Scopes was a biology teacher who volunteered to be arrested and put on trial for teaching evolution.

Explain what happened to John Scopes?

John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution.

Who is Clarance Darrow and what did be do for Scopes?

Clarance Darrow was a prosecutor who defended Scopes in trial.

What did the 18th amendment do?

The 18th amendment probibited the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

Who was responsible for enforcing prohibition?

The US treasury enforced prohibition.

Who was Al Capone?

Al Capone was one of the most well known and most successful gangsters in the era.

What did the 21st amendment do?

The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment.

List 3 things that combined in a flowering of African American arts that became known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Artistic development, racial pride and political organization.

Claude Mckay - thought as?

Thought as the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

Langston Hughes - Poet and a?

Leading voice of the African American experience in America.

Zora Neale Hurston wrote?

Wrote stories in which African American women were the central characters.

Explain everything that the literature of the Harlem Renaissance did.

Literature helped instill a strong sense of pride, defiance, and confidence in the Harlem Renaissance. It encouraged resistance to racism and challenged stereotypes. It helped lay the foundations for the civil rights movement after World War II.

Louis Armstrong - became the first?

Louis Armstrong became the first cornet and trumpet soloist in jazz.

Duke Ellington - he was a ? who created his own ?

Duke Ellington was a composer, pianist, and bandleader. He created a special sound.

Bessie Smith - her title was?

“The Empress of the Blues”

Explain using detail two good things that were the results of jazz.

Jazz had built a connection between African American culture and the rest of society, helping to reduce racism by the shared experience of music. Jazz was one of the first american cultural expressions that had a major impact on the world.