United States History II- Chapter 17 Quiz Review

How did the radio change American culture?

allowed people from different parts of the country to listen to the same thing.

What was significant about the Teapot Dome Scandal?

1st cabinet member in history to go to prison.

What amendment made it illegal to make, distribute, sell, transport, or consume liquor?

18th

What is the nickname given to women of the 1920s?

Flappers

Woodrow Wilson said, “the Chief business of the American people is business.”

false

What new industry of the 1920s provided growth for other industries?

Auto

What famous trial of the 1920s pitted fundamentalism against evolutionism?

Scopes Trail

Women in the Jazz Age that wore short skirts, short hair, & lots of makeup

Flappers

What company created the assembly line which allowed them to create a car within 10 minutes by the end of the 1920s?

Ford Motor Company

How would you describe the economy of the 1920s?

Growing

What famous court case of the 1920s showed that nativism & ethnic discrimination was prevalent?

Sacco- Vanzetti Trail

What group “returned” due to the rise of Nativism during the 1920s?

KKK

What did the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limit?

Controlled the amount of immigrants coming from Europe

What was NOT an invention of the 1920s?

Three point seatbelt

What major influence on the popularity of the flapperin the 1920s?

a shift away from the traditional roles of women

What did the 19th amendment provides?

women gain the right to vote

What was the most infamous scandal of the early 1920s?

Teapot Dome Scandal

What were speakeasies?

hidden bars where people drank liquor illegally

What new system of payment was used by Americans to afford off the new inventions during the 1920s?

Installment plans

Who was the first man to make the transatlantic flight solo?

Charles Lindbergh

Define nativism

extreme fear & hatred of immigrants