Chapter 21
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- What group opposed Darwin's theory of evolution?
- Fundalmentalists
- What technology made it easier for women to work in the 1920s?
- Time saving appliances, ready made clothes, sliced bread and canned foods.
- What is the Dow Jones Average?
- A barometer of the stock markets healt. It was the average stock price of 30representative large firms traded on the New York Stock exchange.
- Who were bootleggers?
- People who smuggle liquor in from other countries and sold it.
- An American small town hero that made the first nonstop solo flight accross the Atlantic?
- Charles Lindberg
- What were flappers?
- Young women who who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
- What signaled the beginning of the Great Depression?
- The crash of the stock market.
- What is foundation urged African Americans to protest racial violence?
- NAACP
- What was Black Tuesday?
- October 29, 1929. The bottom fell out of the stock market and investors confidence.
- What caused prohibition to fail?
- The government failed to budget enough money to enforce the law. Most Americans did not see alcohol as a sin but rather a natural way of socializing.
- When was alcohol allowed to be used during prohibition?
- For medicinal and religous purposes.
- Who was Al Capone?
- A Chicago orgainized crime boss that got rich from bootlegging.
- What challenge did the public schools first face in the 1920s?
- Educating immigrant children.
- What was the Scopes trial?
- A trial that defended a Tennessee biology teacher for teaching evolution. The trial was a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools.
- Name the ammendment that repealed the 18th ammendment?
- 21st Ammendment.
- What association rose from prohibition
- Organized Crime.
- What were the four major causes of the depression?
- Foreign tarriffs, a crisis in the farm market, the availability of easy credit, an unequal distribution of income.
- Prohibition
- The eighteenth ammendment stated that there could be no manugfacture, sale and transportation of liquor. Supporters of prohibition were southners and westerners.
- What was the Harlem-Renaiassance
- A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.
- What was the major difference between urban and rural families during the depression.
- Rural families were able to grow and can their own food.
- What was the image of the Flappers
- Rebellious youth. The reality was that most woman maintained their morals.
- What is fundamentalism
- A belief that all important knowledge can be obtain through the bible.
- What were speakesaies?
- Drinkers went underground to hidden saloons and nightclubs to obtain liquor illegally.