Chapter 17 - The Jazz Age

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What did mass production do?

It increased the supply of goods while lowering their costs, changing life in the U.S.

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What happened after Americans started having more disposable income?

They started buying more wants instead of needs.

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What happened after the successful flights of the Wright brothers and Charles Lindbergh?

The aviation industry developed quickly.

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What was the result of Edwin Armstrong's invention of the special circuit?

The development of the radio industry.

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What happened during the economic boom as attitudes toward debt began to change?

Americans began using credit.

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What was a positive and negative result of buying on credit?

Positive: It allowed people to buy products that they couldn't afford at the moment.

Negative: People were buying more stuff than they could afford.

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What was the cause of advertising on businesses?

It changed the way businesses were structured and allowed businesses to thrive as an industry.

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Why didn't all Americans take part in the economic boom?

Because there was uneven prosperity and not all people were able to work in successful jobs.

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What happened because of the overproduction of crops?

It led to a serious debt for American farmers after the war.

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How do the ads reflect the culture at the time?

  • Used designs with stereotypical pretty women of the time to promote beauty products.
  • Advertised cleaning products to women only.
  • Used famous people to push their products.
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How do the ads from today reflect our culture?

  • Still use stereotypical pretty women of today to promote beauty products.
  • Advertise cleaning products to everyone.
  • Use athletes and celebrities to promote products.
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Why were Americans afraid of foreigners and immigrants, especially those from S. and E. Europe?

That's because they were holding views that were different from Americans, such as the Bolsheviks and the anarchists.

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What happened during the Red Scare?

The gov't went after Communists and others with radical views.

  • Palmer and his deputy Hoover arrested more than 10,000 suspected Communists and Anarchists.
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What were the Palmer Raids and what led them?

  • Raids led by Palmer and Hoover on the headquarters of suspicious groups, where the gov't deported a few hundred of the aliens it arrested.
  • The Russian Revolution & the anarchists' bombings.
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Why did some believe that the Sacco and Vanzetti case wasn't fair?

Because they felt that it was clear that Sacco and Vanzetti's beliefs and nationality had played some part in their conviction.

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Nativism

The belief that native-born Americans are superior to foreigners.

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Who were the targets of the "New Clan"?

  • African Americans
  • Catholics
  • Jews
  • immigrants
  • other groups
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How did Nativism affect US immigration in the 1920s?

It resulted in the Congress passing the Emergency Quota Act, which set up a quota system that only allowed 3% of that country's American population.

  • However, the policy favored immigration from northern and western Europe.
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Why were the Mexican immigrants the right choice to fill the need for agriculture, mining, and railroad work?

Because the National Origins Act exempted natives of the Western Hemisphere from the quotas, allowing more Mexicans to migrate and fill those jobs.

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What were the characteristics of a flapper which rebelled against traditional ways?

  • Carefree
  • Young
  • Short "bobbed" hair
  • Heavy makeup
  • Short skirts
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Why was Scopes arrested?

Because he deliberately broke the Tennessee law, which made it illegal to teach evolution.

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What was the result of the Scopes trial?

Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but later, the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned his conviction.

  • The Christian fundamentalism movement continued to thrive among the rural people and farmers.
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Why was prohibition a failure?

  • It led to speakeasies selling drinks illegally.
  • It contributed to organized crime.
  • Powerful gangsters made millions of dollars from bootlegging, and they used their profits to influence businesses, labor unions, and governments.
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Why did many artists, writers, and intellectuals moved to Manhattan's Greenwich Village and Chicago's South Side?

Because those places allowed young artists, musicians, and writers greater freedom to express themselves.

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Which art influenced the modernists of American art.

European art

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Charles Sheeler

Created urban and rural paintings.

  • He used photography and the shapes of Cubism for inspiration
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Edward Hopper

Used the visual accuracy of realism in his haunting scenes.

  • His paintings carry a sense of disappointment and isolation.
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Georgia O'Keeffe

Painted bold landscapes and flowers.

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Where did many American artists move to that was a center of artistic activity.

Paris

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Ernest Hemingway

Wrote novels about war and its ruinous results, such as A Farewell to Arms.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

He criticized society's shallowness in The Great Gatsby.

  • His colorful characters chased fruitless dreams.
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Why did many Americans have more time for entertainment?

Because they had more time for entertainment because of the economic fortunes and the new technologies of the 1920s.

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What is a talkie?

A movie with a synchronized soundtrack.

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Babe Ruth

Became a national hero, famous for hitting hundreds of home runs.

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Jack Dempsey

A world heavyweight champion from 1919 until 1926, when he lost the title to Gene Tunney.

  • A boxer
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The Great Migration

The movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to industrial cities in the North.

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The Harlem Renessaince

A time where artistic development, racial pride, and political organization combined in a flowering of African American arts.

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Claude McKay

The first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance who expressed a proud defiance and bitter contempt of racism.

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Langston Hughs

A prolific, original,, and versatile writer who became a leading voice of the African American experience in America.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Wrote some of the first major stories featuring African American women as central characters.

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Overall, what was the impact of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance?

It helped instill a strong sense of pride, defiance, and confidence in African Americans.

  • It also helped create a distinct and separate African American culture apart from the wider culture of the nation.
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Louis Armstrong

Introduced an early form of jazz and performed high imaginative solos on the cornet and trumpet.

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Edward "Duke" Elington

Had a special sound, a blend of improvisation and orchestration using different combination of instruments.

  • Said that soul is very important in music.
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What was the impact of the musical Shuffle Along?

Its success helped launch a number of careers, including those of Florence Mills and Paul Robeson.

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What impact did African Americans have in elections?

They became an influential voting bloc as their numbers grew in city neighborhood.

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What happened to the NAACP in relation to politics?

They became a powerful political force by lobbying public officials and working through the court system.

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Who was the first African American representative to Congress from a Northern state?

Oscar DePriest

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How did Marcus Garvey's approach to political action differ from that of the NAACP?

Garvey advocated separation and independence from whites, while the NAACP fought to end segregation and discrimination against African Americans.