Us history chapter 8
Why did the mass media help unify Americans
Aimed at a broad audience and fostered a sense of shared experience
Who was the first cabinet official in the u.s. history to go to prison?
Albert B. Fall
Which two of hardings appointees stayed under president Coolidge
Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover
What process, first adopted by Henry Ford, allowed the price of products to be reduced while volume of sales increased?
Assembly line
What was the result of the Kelly act, passed by congress in 1925?
Authorizing postal officials to hire private airplane operators to carry mail
What consumer product changed American society more than any other?
Automobile
The unconventional way in which many writers and artists lived during the 1920s was referred to as a
Bohemian
Which describes the factors that led to the "great depression" in America agriculture after world war I
Demands for crops increased, but farmers prices went down
What caused the emergence of the consumer products which flooded the market in the1920's?
Disposable income
Rather than relying on armed forces to influence global policy during the 1920's, the US used
Economic policies and arms agreements
What type of products changed the lives of homemakers in the 1920s
Electric appliances
Women who wore makeup drank prohibited liquor and smoked cigarettes were called
Flapper
The 1920s movement that beleived the Christian bible was literally true and denied the theory of evolution was
Fundamentalism
Much of the turmoil of the 1920's was blamed on
Germans and communists
Attorney General Harry Daugherty was accused of accepting bribes in order to?
Give Germans a German-owned company that had been seized by the US
What is the significance of the jazz singer
It was the first talking picture
Louis Armstrong is credited with developing an early form of this style of music which combined Dixieland blue and ragtime called
Jazz
___, a profilic and original writer, became a leading voice on the African-American experience in America
Langston Hughes
What did the 1924 national origins act do?
Made immigration restriction a permanent policy
What technological advancement allowed for shorter workweeks?
Mass production
For women of the 1920s New fashion represented
Mordernism/independence
President Harding's cabinet appointments, including his friends from Ohio, were referred to as?
Ohio gang
What exerted a great deal of influence on the modernist art movement in the 1920s
Past European art movements
What was a primary result of the great migration
Population swelled in cities like Harlem
Fundamentalists were active in which social movement that pushed for the ratification of the eighteenth amendment
Prohibition movement
What position did Herbert Hoover have during the Coolidge administration
Secretary of commerce
During the Forbes scandal, what was colonel Charles Forbes accused of doing?
Selling scarce medical supplies from veterans' hospitals and kept the money for himself
Mellon's principle of cutting tax rates in order to stimulate the economy is known today as?
Supply-side economics
Which famous scandal involved the Secretary of the interior taking bribes to lease oil reserves to private interests?
Teapot Dome
The explosion of African-American arts, music, and political activity in the 1920s became known as
The Harlem renaissance
___ was the most famous nightclub in Harlem in which many musicals got their start
The cotton club
Anger against immigrants and emerging racial tensions over jobs led to the rise of which previously defunct group
The kkk
What was one of the major political successes of the naacp
The refusal to confirm John j parkers nomination in the supreme court
How did the Harlem renaissance transform the African-American society
They got into theater and
What factor about the Sacco-Vanzetti case prejudiced the jury into convicting them for murder
They were anarchists
Why did Henry Ford double his workers pay but decrease their hours
To create loyalty and counteract unionization
What was the main focus of Edith Wharton Pulitzer prize winning novel the age of innocence
Upperclass
What distinguished Carl Sandberg from other writers before him
Used common speech to glorify the Midwest
How did the new morality of the 1920's change traditional views of marriage
Women's New independent and weren't reliant on men because of their jobs
Pulitzer prize winner Edna st Vincent mullay
Wrote about women's inner lives
What group of Americans found themselves let go from factory positions when servicemen returned from the war
African Americans
___ was a great writer of the 1920s who wrote about "heroic antheroes" in world war one
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One of the striking features of African American writing in the 1920s as exemplified in Claude McKay's work was
A proud defiance and bitter contempt of racism
How was Marcus Garvey successful in influencing African-American culture
A sense of pride in their heritage and inspired hope for their future