abeka history 11 section 23.4

KDKA

first commercial radio station (1920)

national broadcasting company (NBC)

first national radio network

d. w. griffith

The Birth of a Nation (pioneered modern filming techniques)

george herman “babe” ruth jr.

first great home run hitter

bobby jones

first to win golf’s Grand Slam; best amateur golfer of all time

gertrude ederle

first woman to swim the English Channel

man o’ war

greatest racehorse of all time

lost generation

group of expatriate writers

f. scott fitzgerald

wrote The Great Gatsby about the vain lifestyles of the early 20s

modernism

literary movement that rejected traditional poetry

t. s. eliot

wrote The Waste Land

robert frost

one of the greatest traditional poets of the twentieth century

ashcan school

group of artists that painted realistic scenes of urban America

frank lloyd wright

considered the greatest American architect

george gershwin

popularized the music form jazz

irving berlin

one of America’s greatest songwriters

volstead act

put the 18th Amendment into effect

18th amendment

prohibited the sale and production of alcohol (1919)

1. violent

2. decreased

3. moonshiners

fill in the blanks

list the results of the 18th amendment.

1. ______ crime and abuse decreased 

2. Alcohol addiction _________

3. Increase in organized crime and “____________”

psychoanalysis

denies human personality and reduces man to a bundle of subconscious drives and fears

sigmund freud

psychoanalysis

behaviorism

a person’s environment is responsible for his behavior

john b. watson

behaviorism

economic determinsm

economic factors have an overriding influence on men’s decisions and the course of history

charles a. beard

economic determinsm

pragmatism

an idea or action should be judged only by its results

william james

pragmatism

progressive education

applies humanism to education encouraging children to follow their animal instincts and practice self-expression

john dewey

progressive education

secular humanism

matters of morality should be based on man’s well-being in the present life

existentialism

there is no truth or reality

soren kierkegaard

fill in the blank

existentialism began with the ideas of _____ _________

friedrich nietzsche

“God is dead.”

john t. scopes

school teacher who was on trial in defense of evolution

william jennings bryan

prosecutor in the scopes monkey trial

clarence darrow

lawyer for the defense

1. bryan

2. scopes

fill in the blank

_____ won the case and _______ was found guilty