Unit 6: The 1920s

What is the term or slogan President Warren G. Harding is frequently identified with?

Normalcy

During the 1920s, how were immigrants from southern and eastern Europe affected by the new quora systen of immigrarion?

It became more difficult to Immigrate

Which new technologies influenced popular culture in the 1920s?

Movies and Radio

What was the first talking Movie?

The Jazz Singer

What became extrarodinarily popular in America during the 1920s?

Sports

Who was known as the “Sultan of Swat“ who transformed baseball during the 1920s with his hitting prowess?

Babe Ruth

In the 1920s, what did many rural Americans thing the new city-oriented culture was focused on?

Sin and Materialism

What did urban-rural tensions of the 1920s produce a resurgence of in rural areas?

Religious Fundamentalism

Who was the popular politician who was the greatest asset of religious fundamentalists campaigning against teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in the schools?

William Jennings Bryan

What did the 1925 Dayton Tennessee “Monkey Trial” deal with?

Teaching evolution in public schools

Who was the Prohibition movement most strongly supported by?

Rural Americans

Who was the infamous gangster who grabbed wealth and power in Chicago during the Prohibition?

Al Capone

What did the literature of the 1920s reflect?

Disenchantment with consumerism(materialism) by the lost generation

Which case inspired many intellectuals and implied that American justice had little sympathy toward radicals and aliens?

The Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Who wrote The Great Gatsby and became a symbol of the “lost generation“?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What was the flourishing of black literature, theatre, and music during the 1920s known as?

Harlem Renaissance

Which industry during the 1920s had the single most important impact on the nation’s forming economy?

Automobile

Who was the chief counsel for the defendant, John T. Scopes, in the famous “Monkey Trial”?

Clarence Darrow

Who realized mass production could make a car cheap enough for the average consumer?

Henry Ford

In May 1927, who completed the first solo non-stop flight from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis?

Charles Lindberhgh