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The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties. Test Review. Summary of the 1920s (repeat from Monday). A time of great change Technological - inventions Social – women and blacks Sexuality Economical – thriving business and stock market But not farms or coal mining, poor will struggle to keep up

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The Roaring Twenties

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  1. The Roaring Twenties Test Review

  2. Summary of the 1920s (repeat from Monday) • A time of great change • Technological - inventions • Social – women and blacks • Sexuality • Economical – thriving business and stock market • But not farms or coal mining, poor will struggle to keep up • Scientific – Freud and Darwin • A time of great resistance to change • Butler Act – stop Darwin • Volstead Act and Amendment 18– stop the moral decline of Americans by banning alcohol • KKK- discourage the social changes • Immigration quota acts – limit the influx of people who are different. • And more, often driven by fundamentalist Christian beliefs

  3. Essay Prep- Clash of the Twenties Modern Age Embrace the New/Tradition holds us back/ technology is good Black Empowerment Wets- Enjoy, Keep personal tradition Evolution Women voting, working, drinking, exploring sexuality Jazz Return to Normalcy/ Conservatism • Stick with the Old Ways/ Uphold Tradition • KKK and Nativism • Dries - Morality • Genesis/Bible • Women in the kitchen • Traditional music

  4. True or False Andrew Mellon lowered income tax during his tenure as Secretary of Treasury to encourage freer capitalism.

  5. True or False Members of the KKK often paid the penalty for the lynchings they performed.

  6. True or False Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted on clear, obvious evidence.

  7. True or False The Butler Act continued to exist in Tennessee until 1968.

  8. True or False Flappers tended to be from the middle to upper class and urban areas.

  9. True or False Andrew Mellon raised tariffs during his tenure as Secretary of Treasury.

  10. True or False There was a shortage of workers for the jobs opening up in new industries in the 1920s.

  11. True or False Bad memories of war brought on US efforts to sign well-intentioned treaties that had little means of enforcement.

  12. True or False Farmers are making more money than ever in the 1920s as production techniques improved.

  13. True or False Alcohol consumption, on the whole, went down during Prohibition.

  14. General Questions What is it called when there is favoritism of American born people over foreign born in terms of jobs, housing, wages, and laws?

  15. General Questions What was the name for the fear of growing communism and increasing union membership?

  16. General Questions What was the name for the flourishing of Black American art, literature, and music that began in the 1920s?

  17. General Questions What new technology was key to creating the new national community since people all over were receiving the same information at the same time?

  18. General Questions What was it called when people purchased items by making an initial down payment and gradually paying for the rest with interest over time?

  19. General Questions Which 2 European areas (N, S, E, W) were favored by 1920s immigration quotas??

  20. General Questions What was the most ignored law of the 1920s?

  21. General Questions A level of material comfort as measured by the goods, services, and luxuries available to an individual, group, or nation.

  22. General Questions What is the name for someone who believes in strict interpretation of the bible?

  23. General Questions What made the summer of 1919 Red?

  24. General Questions What is it called when there are higher moral expectations for women than men?

  25. General Questions What specific scandal was the undoing of Harding?

  26. General Questions What was the nickname for Harding’s pals who served poorly as his advisors?

  27. General Questions What was the name for the group of writers who did not ‘love’ American society after World War I?

  28. General Questions Something that is fake or not real, sometimes it describes relationships and in this unit it described wealth.

  29. General Questions What was the name of the first film with a story line? (1903)

  30. People Who was the most well known Chicago gangster who gained power due to the prohibition of alcohol?

  31. People Who broke the Butler Act of Tennessee by teaching sophomores about man evolving from monkeys?

  32. People Who was the landmark filmmaker that inadvertently helped the Klan expand its membership?

  33. People Who set up a creative way for Europe to pay back America for World War I, but inadvertently made US banks vulnerable in the process?

  34. People Who brought his magical trumpet skills from New Orleans to Chicago to solidify musical changes in the 1920s?

  35. People Who helped distribute birth control, especially to the lower and middle class?

  36. People Whose incarceration helped bring about the demise of the 1920s KKK?

  37. People Who were the competing lawyers in the Scopes Trial?

  38. People Who violated civil rights on his quest to kill communism?

  39. People Who was the first ever to fly solo across the Atlantic?

  40. People Which civil rights leader focused on integrating and fitting in with whites?

  41. People Who mastered the assembly line, making cars affordable, and stimulating many other industries?

  42. People Whose reputation was damaged by the Teapot Dome Scandal?

  43. People Which civil rights leader focused on Black Power and self-reliance to gain status?

  44. People Whose paintings of flowers were abstract depictions of female sexuality?

  45. People What Black leader wanted Blacks to fully integrate with Whites?

  46. People Who helped make Harlem a Black neighborhood through his real estate expertise?

  47. People Who painted this scene that depicts the story of African Americans moving from South to North?

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