chapters 20 to 21
chapters 20 to 34 in american history
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- many americans believed that communists were behind the
- labor strikes of 1919
- after immigration laws were tightened many low paying jobs went to
- immigrants from canada and mexico
- lost generation
- a group of amerian writers in the 1920s
- in the 1920s the status of women in the workplace
- changed very little
- red scare
- intence fear of communism and other politically radical ideas.
- despite the prosperity of the 1920s life remained hard for many
- farmers and factory workers.
- the central issue of the scopes trial was whether or not
- the theory of evolution should be taught in public schools.
- what was one cause of the race riots in chicago in 1919?
- overcrowed neighborhoods.
- in the 1920s most african americans moved to northern cities because they wanted
- jobs
- in charles lindbergh and other heroes, americans recognized
- the virtues of the good old days
- bootlegger
- supplier of illegal alcohol
- fundamentalism
- set of beliefts held by religious traditionalists
- the use of the assembly line to manufacture automobiles allowed henry ford to
- sell cars at prices ordinary americans could afford
- the symbol of the 1920s woman was a
- flapper
- under the kellogg briand pact 15 nations agreed not to use
- the threat of war in their dealing with one another
- the new morals and manners of the 1920s were reflected in
- womens fashions
- jazz was brought to northern cities by
- southern african americans
- the growth of radio and other mass media in the 1920s produced
- a national culture
- americans feared the communists because they were
- openly hostile to american values
- the rise of the mass media led to the
- development of a national culture
- in the 1920s many american consumers began to adopt the practice of
- buying goods on credit
- the huge rise in the stock market in the 1920s mainly benefited
- rural banks
- republican presidents in the 1920s generally favored
- business
- buying on margin
- paying part of a stocks price and borrowing the rest
- harding and coolidge both based their foreign policy on a return to
- isolationism
- many farmers struggled to survive in the 1920s because
- farm prices plummeted
- ford did not inent the assembly line but he
- made it more efficent
- president warren g harding called for
- international disarmament
- consumer economy
- an economy that depends on a large amount of spending by consumers
- the small town the medical business and dishonest ministers were all targets of novelist
- sinclair lewis
- jazz age
- term used to describe the 1920s
- to meet workers demands and keep out unions, many companies
- fired employees
- the big change in moviesin the late 1920s was
- the introduction of sound.
- one characteristic of a consumer economy is that
- people buy large numbers of products
- the nations business took off in the 1920s in part because of
- republican laissez faire policies.
- what legal right was at issue in the scopes trial?
- the right to teach evolution in schools
- flapper
- new type of young woman
- what did marcus garvey urge african americans to do?
- return to africa
- when hoover took office in 1929 most americans expected
- prosperity to continue
- speakeasy
- a bar that operated illegally
- during the red scare many americans blamed labor stikes on
- communists
- what group lost some momentum as a result of scopes trial?
- fundamentalists
- books by authors of the lost generation encouraged many young americans to
- rebel against popular culture
- hoover did little to discourage the wild buying of stocks with borrowed money because he had high confidence in the
- business world
- amerians elected herbert hoover president because he
- promised to continue prosperity
- one major danger sign that the american economy was in trouble in the 1920s was
- the increase of personal debt
- a major demographic change in the 1920s was
- the movement from rural to urban areas
- advertisements in the 1920s changed from an emphasis on quality to an emphasis on
- consumer image
- what was one of the unforeseen results of prohibition?
- racketeering
- speculation
- making high risk investments in hopes of high return
- isolationism
- policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries
- barrio
- spanish speaking neighborhood
- the palmer raids were organized to root out groups whose activities
- posed a clear danger to the country
- fords success came partly from
- vertical consolidation
- the main result of prohibition was that
- crime organizations grew rich selling alcohol
- rising prices on the stock market encouraged people to take risks by
- selling stocks
- practices such as buying on margin reflected americans
- "get rich quick" attitude
- welfare capitalism
- offering workers higher wages and some benefits
- one of the most exciting heroes of this era was the baseball star
- babe ruth
- communism
- soviet unions government system
- assembly line
- the manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized task in the construction of the final produce
- demographics
- statistics describing populations
- the 1920s was called the jazz age because
- americans from almost all walks of life embraced jazz music
- how did the women's roles in society change during the 1920s?
- women were elected to state and national governments.
- henry fords dream was to sell cars that
- ordinary people could afford
- president harding avoided political alliances with other countries in a desire to follow a policy of
- isolationism
- clubs in the harlem district of new your city were among the hottest places to listen to
- jazz
- consumers desire for exciting new products led to
- an increase in personal debt
- scopes trial
- case about the teaching of evolution in schools
- harlem renaissance
- african american literary awakening of 1920
- in the 1920s trolleys to the suburbs were largely replaced by
- taxis
- gernerally the 1920s were marked by
- rising stock prices
- some members of the lost generation
- left the country to live in paris
- african americansmigrated north in early 1900s mainly because of
- an industrial boom
- writers james weldon johnson and zora neale hurston took part in a movement called
- the harlem renaissance
- who were the main targets of the ku kluz klans terror?
- african americans catholics jews and immigrants
- quota
- a numerical limit
- langston hughes and countee cullen were leaders of the
- harlam renaissance
- the increase in automobiles led to rise of new businesses such as
- motels and gas stations