US History Module 17 Study Guide

• Know who Charles Lindbergh is and what he is famous for

first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean

• Know who F. Scott Fitzgerald was and what he described the 1920s as

Wrote of negative side of the period in The Great Gatsby & Jazz Age

• Know what the Kellogg-Briand Pact was and the problem with it

was signed by 15 countries, renouncing war as national policy, but had no means of enforcement

• Know what a bigot is

person who is intolerant of any creed, race, religion, or political belief that differs from his own

• Know what the Harlem Renaissance refers to and where Harlem is found

Literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture in Manhattan

• Know the amendment that began Prohibition and the amendment that ended it

18th & 21st

• Know who Al Capone is, in what American city he ran his criminal organization, and what he is eventually convicted of

Ran bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling businesses in Chicago, but convicted of income-tax evasion

• Know who Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were, where they were from, and what they were convicted of

two Italian immigrants that were also anarchists, that were found guilty and executed for robbery and murder with little to no evidence

• Know what the Teapot Dome Scandal was

Secretary of the Interior took bribes and secretly loaned govn’t owned land rich in oil to oil companies in Teapot Dome, Wyoming

• Know what a speakeasy is

Illegal underground saloons and nightclubs

• Know what the main factors were for urban sprawl in the 1920s

overcrowding ,unemployment, and poverty

• Know what fundamentalists believe

Argued against scientific theories like evolution

Some wanted laws passed to prohibit its teaching

• Know the purpose of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff

raised taxes to 60% on imports, highest level ever

• Know what employers often accused striking workers of being

Communists

• Know what the Scopes Trial was about

Tennessee passed laws against teaching evolution, but ACLU tried to defend its teachers

• Know why the KKK reemerged in the 1920s

due to Red Scare and anti-immigrant feelings

• Know who founded the NAACP and what they accomplished during the 1920s

Begun by W.E.B. Du Bois, Began the push for antilynching laws and protecting rights of African Americans

• Know what policy the U.S. followed after WWI

Isolationism

• Know the purpose of the quota system in the 1920s

established maximum number of people who could enter the U.S. from each foreign country

• Know what a flapper was

Were emancipated young women who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes of the day

• Know the difficulties there were for enforcing the laws of prohibition

Enforcement poorly funded, speakeasies, and bootleggers

• Know what communism is and what the panic surrounding its threat in America during the 1920s was known as

economic/political system in which a single-party govn’t is run by a dictator and govn’t owns all factories, railroads, and businesses, called Red Scare

• Know who was one of the most important people for bringing jazz music from New Orleans to the North

Louis Armstrong

• Know what the Lost Generation and other American writers thought of American culture during the 1920s

It was hype or sum (idk)

• Know what an anarchist is

people who oppose any form of govn’t

• Know what an installment plan is

not on the notes

• Know which U.S. president dies suddenly in 1923

Harding

• Know who Sinclair Lewis is and what he is known for

becomes first American to win Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote Babbitt

• Know who in America was most supportive of prohibition

South and West (Protestants)