US History Unit 5 Review (ch. 7)

President Harding's domestic policy program favored

Less government spending

Zora Hurston & Hughes had which of the following in common?

Writers of the Harlem Renaissance

The US faced all of the following problems except

Food shortages;
(They DID face urban racial riots, violent labor strikes, and bomb scares)

Labor Strikes and terrorist acts led many Americans

to support nativism

Mass Media and advances in transportation

Promoted the creation of a national culture

Automobile industry led to

Government building new roads

Palmer Raids in 1920 targeted

Alleged radicals (1920)

Teapot Dome

A scandal involving government officials who illegally leased land to oil companies

H. Hoover was elected President in 1928 because

The soaring economy under the Republicans (1)

The motivation behind the passage of the National Origin Act was (1)

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants wanted to ban immigrants (1)

All are true about the film industry EXCEPT

The movie industry experienced sluggish box office sales; (The rest is true: Movie stars became key figures in the emergence of celebrities, the construction of huge movie houses in cities, films often expressed contrasting themes)

First "Shopping Center" in 1922 was located in

Kansas City

Harlem Renaissance

An African American literary and artistic movement

Effect of woman's suffrage on public life

Women began to serve on juries in many states

Red Scare of the 1920s

A period of fear of communism & radical ideas

Support for A.A. businesses and the back-to-Africa movement were part of whose program?

Marcus Garvey

The ultimate symbol of the Jazz Age culture was a young woman who

Enjoyed greater freedom in morals and manners than previously

First Talking Motion Picture

The Jazz Singer

What did Charles Lindbergh symbolize

The country's national spirit

Assembly Line was made more efficient by

Henry Ford

Why Hoover won the election of 1928

Because the economy soared under Republican leadership during the 1920s. (2)

First talking movie

The Jazz Singer

Favored less government spending

President Harding

Supported American businesses wholeheartedly

Harding and Calvin Coolidge

A major male writer of Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

Results of labor strikes and terrorist acts

Many Americans began to support nativism

Results of Red Scare

Palmer Raids

Marcus Garvey

Promoted idea of universal black nationalism and organized a "Back to Africa" movement; advocated for the separation of races

Main goal of KKK

-Targeted Jews. Catholics, and immigrants. Opposed labor unions, and claimed to stand against lawbreaking and immorality
-Racism and feared social change
-Reestablish white supremacy and white power

What the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia and workers' strikes in the US caused

Red Scare

What industry created many other industries

Automobile Industry (industry)

Main group against teaching the theory of evolution

Fundamentalists

Problems faced after WWI

Violent labor, strikes,
Bomb scares,
War Debts,
Urban racial riots

Cause of the Red Scare

(Americans feared Vladimir Lenin and his followers promoted a worldwide communist revolution); Bolshevik Rev of 1917 & workers' strikes in US

Believers in white supremacy

Ku Klux Klan

Reduced immigrant quotas

National Origin Act (1924)

Sacco and Vanzetti's accusations

Charged with shooting and killing two men during a holdup at a shoe factory in a town near Boston

Motivation to pass National Origin Act of 1924 (2)

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants wanted to ban immigrants (2)

Caused the rise of organized crime

Prohibition

Temperance

The act of abstaining from alcoholic beverages

Effects of the 18th amendment

Forbade manufacturing, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the USA

Made prohibition official

18th amendment, Volstead Act enforced 18th Amendment

Failure of prohibition

The growth of organized crime

"The Business of America is Business" meaning

The economy functions best if the government allows business to operate freely

Caused legislatures to support favorable legislation for women

19th amendment

What created a demand for vacuum cleaners and radios

Vacuum cleaners for made women's life at home easier; Consumer Revolution

19th amendment

Women gain the right to vote

The ultimate symbol of the jazz age

Flappers

What promoted the creation of a national culture

Mass Media and advances in transportation

Flew solo across the Atlantic

Charles Lindbergh

Jazz Musicians

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith

Symbolize the country's national spirit

Charles Lindbergh

Assembly line

Henry Ford put cars on this-> worker added something to construct the automobile (Drops sale price)

Palmer raids target

alleged radicals and anarchists and were threatned to be arrested or deported

This President limited immigration quotas in 1921 because of the fear of communism

President Harding; Emergency Quota Act of 1921, established a quota system

Effects of the automobile on American society

toy of the rich made more affordable;
government paved roads;
increase in consumer money (consumer revolution);
increased commuting distance to jobs;
decrease in church attendence

How Americans pay for most of their purchases

Installment buying and buying on margin

Cause the government to build new roads

Automobile industry (government)

Harlem Renaissance

An African American literary and artistic movement

Back-to-Africa Movement

Marcus Garvey; promoted the idea of universal black nationalism

Fear of communism and radical ideas

The Red Scare

Henry Ford

Carmaker introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, daily life (AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY)

Tea Pot Dome

biggest (bribery) scandal of Harding's administration; Secretary of Interior Albert Fall illegally leased government oil fields in the West to private oil companies; Fall was later convicted of bribery and became the first Cabinet official to serve prison time (1931-1932).; Harding never saw full extent of it

Louis Armstrong

-Unofficial ambassador of jazz (trumpet player)
-Trumpet playing + sense of improvisation= legend + influenced the development of jazz

The film industry of the 1920s

Films became popular worldwide;
Huge studios were built in Hollywood, California;
Mainly silent films

KKK in 1920

Increased in membership;
Revelations of corruptions and criminality: the growth of KKK slowed

Scopes Trial

William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow;
Bryans believed Tennessee had the right to protect its children from ideas that violated biblical teachings;
Darrow argued against a state determining what should be taught

Supporters of WASP (Nordic Americans)

KKK?

Supporters of prohibition

"Drys", called it a noble experiment

Fredrick Taylor

Scientific Management: experts to improve mass production techniques;
Improves efficiency (experts looked at every step of a manufacturing process to find ways to reduce time, effort, expense