Chapter 24: The Jazz Age, Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929

I was one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), noted scholar, promoted Pan-Africanism, and the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. Who am I?

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Harlem Renaissance and the new Negro Nationalism did what?

took pride in African-centric and African American cultural and artistic expression

Which movie featured a racist interpretation of Reconstruction and was praised by President Woodrow Wilson as, “It was like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

The Birth of a Nation

Which of the following “good business” strategy did Henry Ford pioneer?

doubled workers' pay and decreased the work day to eight hours 

Which new technology fostered a national identity and spread homogeneity of “typical American” culture?

radio

1. Calvin Coolidge

2. Marcus Garvey

3. Zora Neale Hurston

4. F. Scott Fitzgerald

5. “Scarface” Al Capone

6. Ernest Hemingway

7. Claude McKay

8. Langston Hughes

1. "The man who builds a factory builds a temple. The man who works there worships there."

2. "Back to Africa" leader and founder of the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

3. author of Their Eyes Were Watching God

4. author of The Great Gatsby

5. bootlegger and mafia boss

6. author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms

7. penned the poem "If We Must Die"

8. "poet laureate" of the Harlem Renaissance

The 1920s saw the growth of disposable income for many Americans and new forms of entertainment, including (Select all that apply)

movies

radio

sports

During the 1920s, Ku Klux Klan membership gained mainstream support and spread from the South to the Midwest, and even out West. The Second Ku Klux Klan embraced which of the following (in addition to white supremacy in support of black oppression)? (Select all that apply)

anti-Semitism

anti-Catholicism

immigration restrictions

Nativism can be defined as

fear of foreign influences, ideologies, and of non-English speaking immigrants.

Which trial played on nativist fears and unfairly prosecuted and convicted anarchists?

Sacco and Vanzetti trial

The first “talkie” (moving picture with sound) movie featured which actor?

Al Jolson

Figure 24.3 features which silent picture movie star?

Charlie Chaplin in The Kid

The “New Woman” of the 1920s gained government support for motherhood with the Sheppard-Towner Act, but lost momentum with the failure of what?

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Which novel captured the flapper era and wild parties of the 1920s?

Tales of the Jazz Age

Which of the following was NOT one of the “big five” motion picture studios?

Hollywood Pictures

Which political party dominated national politics in the 1920s and returned to a laissez-faire approach to business?

Republican

The National Origins Act of 1924 did what?

implemented a quota system restricting the number of eastern and southern European immigrants.

In a backlash against urbanization and modern popular culture, which state banned the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution?

Tennessee

My fashion statements of short skirts and short hair were all the rage in the Jazz Age. I symbolized a challenge to traditional gender norms. What am I known as?

a flapper

1. “Big Bill” Tilden

2. Jim Thorpe

3. Aimee Semple McPherson

4. Hellen Wills

5. Clarence Darrow

6. Babe Ruth

7. Gertrude Ederle

8. Bessie Coleman

9. Charles Lindbergh

10. Margaret Sanger

1. Men's Tennis champion

2. Olympic champion from the Fox and Sac Nation

3. Christian radio preacher who founded Foursquare Church

4. eight-time Wimbledon champion

5. defense attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial

6. “Sultan of Swat”

7. first woman to swim the English Channel

8. pioneering African American stunt pilot

9. Spirit of St. Louis

10. founder of Planned Parenthood

Representing a pro-business leaning, I proclaimed: “The business of America is business.” Who am I?

Calvin Coolidge