US History - 1920s Exam

18th Amendment

Declared the production, transport and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal.

19th Amendment

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

The “New Woman”

Defined women as independent, physically adept, and mentally acute, and able to work, study, and socialize on a par with men.

The Great Migration

The relocation of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural areas of the South to urban areas in the North during the years between 1915 and 1930.

Immigration Act 1921

Placed the first annual numerical cap on U.S. immigration, limiting total arrivals from outside the Western Hemisphere to about 358,000 per year.

Immigration Act 1924

Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.

The “New” Klan

An American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group.

W.E.B. DuBois

An American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

The Harlem Renaissance

An intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s.

“Youth Culture”

The cultural practice of members of this age group by which they express their identities and demonstrate their sense of belonging to a particular group of young people.

“Flappers”

A subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee high), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior.

Tennessee V. Scopes

The Scopes “monkey trial” was the moniker of journalist H. L. Mencken applied to the 1925 prosecution of a criminal action brought by the state of Tennessee against high school teacher John T. Scopes for violating the state's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.

“Talkies”

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

The “Wireless” (Radio)

A century ago, wireless meant an awesome tool used by the military, shipping industry, communications services, and amateur "ham" operators to send messages via radio waves without wires—"wireless telegraphy."

Lindbergh Flight

Lindbergh completed a 1,500-mile flight in 14 hours and 25 minutes, a record for a nonstop flight of that distance.

“Red Scare”

The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This "scare" was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution.