Roaring Twenties test

Bessie Smith

"empress of blues"

List the effects of prohibition:

-bootleggers -speakeasies -more crime and corrupt officials -st valentines day massacre -funeral for o'banion

What characterized the 1920's:

-business expansion -industrial growth -prosperity for everyone except for farmers, immigrants, and African Americans -improvements in the nations transportation system -prohibition -social changes in entertainment and lifestyle

What three groups were most effected by the post war depression?

-farmers -immihransts -farmers

What were the Fads in the 1920's?

-mah jong -dance marathons -flag pole sitting -miss america contest -swallowing goldfish -barnstorming -radio shows

What were the arguments against Prohibition?

-more crime and corrupt officals -expensive to enforce -many did not obey the law

How many men worked as prohibition agents?

1500

What was the Amendment made alcohol illegal?

18th amendment

Gertude Ederle

1st woman to swim the English Channel

What Amendment repealed Prohibition?

21st amendment

How long was the longest dance marathon during the 1920's?

23 weeks and 3.5 days

How many people were members of the KKK during the 1920's?

5 million

According to the Volstead Act, liquids could not have more that what percentage of alcohol to be considered illegal?

50%

Al Capone

A mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits. His illegal activities convey the failure of prohibition in the twenties and the problems with gangs.

gold digger

A woman who is just with a man to get his money

Which of the following illustrates the validity of the law of unintended consequences (outcomes that are not the ones intended by a purposeful action) as it applies to prohibition

Among youth drinking became more widespread

What was the most popular dance in the 1920's?

Charleston

What case led to making kidnapping a federal offense?

Colonel Charles Lindbergh's infant son was kidnapped

From the militant suffragettes before the war young women had morphed into which social type in the 1920s interested in drinking, smoking, dancing, and sex

Flapper

The battle in 1920 over religion was between religious modernists adn religious

Fundamentalists

The flapper replaced which woman who had been the feminine ideal for most of society before her time

Gibson Girl

Leuchtenburg describes Harding as having what single qualification for being president that was not an unimportant one

He looked like one

What groups were attacked by the KKK during the 1920's?

Jews, catholics, and blacks

Benny Goodman

King of Swing played the clarinet(gross)

Louis Armstrong

Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians."satchmo"

What case led to an investigation in the prison system?

Loeb and Leopold

What case was the first for a defendant to use the defense guilty but criminally insane?

Loeb and Leopold

What court case started protests over the unfair treatment of immigrants in our country?

Sacco and Vanzetti

What is the Evolution case?

Scope trial

The civil trial in 1925 that divided the nation between the two religious factions and their respective stand on evolution is called the

Scopes Monkey Trial

Which of the following cites an event that mostly clearly challenges the interpretation expressed in the above excerpt

The Washington conference of 1921

Which of the following trends of the 1920s is most clearly portrayed in this advertisement

The use of extended payment plans to purchase consumer goods

What was the main thing that the German visitor learned about America

Things were different then they appeared

The administration of which of the following presidents who served between 1865 and 1900 most closely resembles the corruption of the Harding administration

Ulysses S. Grant

flapper

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion

run around

a girl that makes excuses for not going out with a guy

drug store cowboy

a guy who looks cool and thinks he's cool but he's not cool

push over

a person easily convinced

One significant way that the flapper differed from traditional women's types is that she

adopted the habits and behaviors associated more with men

giggle water

alcohol female

What is a Speakeasy?

an illegal bar during prohibition

Big cheese

an important person/boss

What do you call a person who does not believe in any form of government?

anarchist

Which f the following most directly supports the argument found in the above excerpt

appointment of Harry M. Daugherty as attorney general

sheik

attractive man

sheba

beautiful woman

Glenna Collet

best female golfer 6 U.S. amateur championships 49 other major tournaments

Helen Wills

best female tennis player of her time won 15 titles in 15 years 1st title at age 17

From the passage above the author seems to be saying that once women solved serious social problems and women's issues, the sense of adventure was passed and they turned to

challenging generally accepted standards, norms, criteria , and customs

What was the most popular hat for women during the 1920's?

choche

By his wish to return to what he perceived to be the normal condition in the U.S. Harding is advocating which description of change on the political spectrum

conservatism

What immigrant group was favored under the Emergency Quota Act?

eastern europeans

Bobby Jones

famous golfer won 1st u.s open in 1923 2 u.s opens 2 brit opens 4 u.s. amateur

irwin berlin

famous tin pan alley musician

Which of the following groups faced the most difficult economic conditions during the 1920s

farmers and many rural areas

coco chanel

fashion designer 1920s

According to the German visitor all of the following were changes that prohibition brought about except

good old pure whiskey has replaced methyl alcohol

Babe Ruth

homerun king 714 homeruns played for new york yankees, boston red sox, and Baltimore orioles reason why yankee stadium was built

Who were the two most famous prohibition officers of the 1920's?

izzy and moe

Which of the following developments in the 1920s would most directly support the author's sentiments in the excerpt

liberalized divorce

What popular game did college students play during the 1920's?

mah jong

houch

male word for alcohol

Jessie owens

most famous black athlete track star beat or tied 4 records at big 10 conference star of 1906 olympic

What do you call a person who favors those born in the United States?

nativist

How much of the female body was exposed during the 1920's?

over 1/4 :O

What was the popular hairstyle for men at the end of the 1920's?

patent leather hair

Harding found a receptive audience for his "return to normalcy" philosophy as

people were tired from causes like the reform movements and World War I

What is a Bootlegger?

people who made and smuggled illegal alcohol during prohibition

Duke Ellington

piamo player u.s. goodwill ambassador

Which of the following most influenced thinking about sexual behavior

popularization of sigmund freud

The politics of the Harding era was a vivid contrast to which political reform movement that came before it

progressivism

It can be inferred that O'Neill believes the social feminist greatest accomplishment that led to their undoing was the

ratification of the 19th amendment

This description by a self-professed flapper shows that compared to earlier women arch-types she is a

rebel

What were the fashion items worn by men in the 1920's?

saddle shoes pin stripe suits argyle socks raccoon clubs

bull session

serious discussion

Johnny Weissmuller

set 67 swimming records gold medal in 1924 olympics 1st Tarzan movies

What was the popular hairstyle for women at the beginning of the 1920's?

shingle

Many historians criticize the economy that developed during the 1920s, which of the following statements best supports that point of view

the boom was based on speculation and borrowed money

Why did Prohibition fail?

the enforcement powers of the state and local were never defined people didn't really care impossible to enforce after the war

What do you call the period of hysteria after the communist came to power in Russia?

the red scare

pinch

to arrest

What was enacted to enforce Prohibition

volstead act

yeet?

yaw