Roaring 20s Tossing pennies

Roaring 20s

What was characterized by prosperity, new technology (cars, telephone), new roles for women, consumerism, jazz, Prohibition

Return to Normalcy

What was the name of President Harding's policies to help the economy recover from WWI through isolationism, high tariffs, and pro-business policies?

Teapot Dome Scandal

What oil scandal contributed to distrust of the government among Americans because it revealed corruption in President Harding's Cabinet?

Nativism

What term describes the dislike of foreigners or immigrants?

Red Scare

What was the panic in America over the spread of radical ideas such as Communism and anarchy called?

Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

What event involving two immigrants with anarchist views reflected the feelings of Nativism during the Red Scare?

anarchist

people who want to abolish all government; responsible for bombings in the US

Palmer Raids

What term refers to the detainment and deportation of people the Attorney General suspected of participating in communist activities?

Eugenics

What movement led to the forced sterilization of poor or disabled people, bans on interracial marriage, and racism?

Social Darwinism

What idea about the superiority of certain races and classes contributed to the Eugenics movement?

Scopes Monkey Trial

In what event did lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan argue over traditional/religious values and modernist/scientific values?

Prohibition

What term refers to the period when alcohol was illegal and ended because of its unpopularity and the rise in organized crime?

Eighteenth Amendment

What constitutional amendment banned the sale and manufacture of alcohol, starting Prohibition?

Twenty-First Amendment

What constitutional amendment ended Prohibition, illustrating the difficulty in enforcing moral values?

speakeasies

What clubs illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition?

Great Migration

What was the movement of African-Americans to northern cities for job called?

Jim Crow laws, violence, racism

What push factors contributed to the Great Migration?

industrial jobs

What pull factors contributed to the Great Migration?

assembly line

What production method led to the mass-production and lower price of cars and other consumer goods?

Harlem Renaissance

What rebirth of African-American American culture contributed to the popularity of jazz?

consumerism

What increased because of low prices and installment plans?

race riots, Ku Klux Klan, lynchings

What were some examples of racial hostility and Nativism during the 1920s?

women

What group of people became more independent after the 19th amendment was passed and they joined the workforce during WWI?

Flappers

What term describes women who rejected traditional roles and wore modern clothes, and cut their hair short?

Tin Pan Alley

What describes the center for songwriters and music publishers and was the birthplace of American popular music?

Immigration quotas

What laws limited the number of people who came to the U.S. from Eastern and Southern Europe?

Marcus Garvey

What leader encouraged African-Americans to be proud of their culture and led the Back to Africa Movement?

Charles Lindbergh

Who was a hero after becoming the first person to fly across the Atlantic alone?

Henry Ford

Who improved the assembly line and used it to mass-produce automobiles?

radio

What invention in mass-media became popular in American homes in the 1920s?

automobile

What advance in transportation led to the growth of the suburbs?