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Ku Klux Klan
Expanded in the early years of the 1920s due to the growing intolerance and prejudice of the U.S. public
Hemingway
________ was among the writers most affected by the war with him responding to propaganda and the appeal to patriotism.
Architecture
________ became popular due to materialism and functionalism becoming popular.
Automobiles
Caused millions of death but were convenient and brought pleasure and excitement into the lives of the people
Motion picture
Began in the 1890s with the true birth being in 1903, when the first story sequence was released
Margaret Sanger
________ led a birth- control movement.
Alice Paul
Created the National Womens Party to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution
quota system
Overall the ________ significantly reduced immigration with the Immigration Act of 1924 ending the era of unrestricted immigration to the U.S ..
Modernism
Was the philosophical movement that took place during the 1920s.
Lindbergh Law
Made interstate abduction in specific circumstances a death- penalty offense
Racial pride
________ grew in the black communities in the North with Garvey founding the United Negro Improvement Association to promote the resettlement of blacks in Africa.
Prosperity
________ led to an increased personal debt with the economy increasingly vulnerable to disruptions of the credit structure.
Fundamentalists
Claimed that the teachings of Darwinism evolution was destroying faith in God and the Bible
Flappers
Were young women who were expressive of their dislike towards traditional womanly behavior by wearing short skirts, drinking, driving cars, and smoking
John Dewey
Set the principles of “learning by doing” which ended up creating the foundation of progressive education centered in the belief that “education for live” should be a teacher’s primary goal
Henry Ford
Came to be known as the father of the moving assembly line
Charles A. Lindberg
Became the first man to fly by himself across the Atlantic Ocean
Dr Sigmund Freud
________ argued that sexual repression was to blame for many emotional problems.
Mencken
Attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition in his monthly American Mercury
Sports
________ became a large business in the consumer economy.
Gasoline engines
________ led ot the invention of the airplane with Orville and Wilbur Wright making their first flight on December 17, 1903 (the flight lasted 12 seconds at 120 feet)
Scarface Al Capone
Began 6 years of gang warfare with Capone eventually being tried and convicted of income-tax evasion
Harlem Renaissance
Was a black cultural movement that spread out of Harlem
Republican Congress
The ________ created the Bureau of the Budget to help the president submit an annual budget to Congress in 1921.
Immigration Act of 1924
________ replacing the Quota Act of 1921 with the quotas for foreigners being cut from 3 % to 2 %.
Anti redism
________ and anti- foreignism were reflected in the criminal case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
voice carrying radio broadcasts
The first ________ were being transmitted in the 1920s.
Automobile industry
Started an industrial revolution in the 1920s with the new industrial system being based on assembly-line methods and mass-production techniques
Automobiles
________ allowed for women to not needing to be dependent on men.
Motion picture
Was used as a form of anti-German propaganda in WWI
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