Kantor ch 13

What were some of the negatives associated with prohibition?

-murder rates rise -organised crime

What did Ernest Hemingway write about?

A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises.... books about WWI.

What was the "Great Migration"?

African Americans migrated north to acquire industrial jobs and escape jim crow laws

Analyze the international and domestic events, interests, and philosophies that prompted attacks on civil liberties, including the Palmer Raids, Marcus Garvey's "back to Africa" movement, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and immigration quotas and the responses of organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Anti-Defamation League to those attacks.

All of these topics were created by a "us and them" mentality that was thriving at the time due to nativism movements, resurgence of racism, and changing societies

Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies, (for example: the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and the effect on the American landscape.

All of this was due to the booming war time economy and ultimately made the stock crash of 1929 even worse, as the country had so recently seen times of such prosperity

Urban

City building and the movement of people to cities

What issue did the Scopes trial revolve around?

Darwinism vs creationism taught in schools

Rural

Farm areas and life in the country.

Who were some of the famous jazz musicians of the 20's?

Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington

Who was Charles Lindberg?

He made the first solo flight across the Atlantic.

What did F. Scott Fitzgerald say about the 1920's?

He satirized the excess in the Roaring 20's.

Describe the new style of music created by Gershwin.

Jazz

Where was the largest population increase during the 1920's in America?

Large cities in the north

how did fundamentalist view the bible?

Literally

What is the UNIA and who founded it?

Marcus Garvey, wanted to create a united nation of all persons of African decent. Universal negro improvement association

What was the NAACP? Who was its leader?

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A group formed in 1909 to fight through the courts ti end segregaton and ensure that African American men could exercise voting rights under the 15th Amendment. They also gave speeches about racism.

Which group would not have approved of prohibition?

Saloon Owners

Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion of popular culture.

Since everyone was listening to the same programming, ideas could be spread to homogenize cultures around the nation.

How did people obtain liquor legally during prohibition?

Speakeasies and bootlegging

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American social thought and culture based in the African-American community forming in Harlem in New York City (USA). This period, beginning with 1920 and extending roughly to 1940, was expressed through every cultural medium—visual art, dance, music, theatre, literature, poetry, history and politics. Instead of using direct political means, African-American artists, writers, and musicians employed culture to work for goals of civil rights and equality. For the first time, African-American paintings, writings, and jazz became absorbed into mainstream culture and crossed racial lines, creating a lasting legacy.

What was the Scopes monkey trial?

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.[1] The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. This was the first case that brought evolution and science against each other

Why were prohibition laws difficult to enforce?

The police were in on it.

Amendment and the changing role of women in society.

This amendment had been fought for for many years by the women's suffrage movement and when passed finally ratified woman's right to vote on a federal level

Analyze the passage of the 19th ammendment

This amendment had been fought for for many years by the women's suffrage movement and when passed finally ratified woman's right to vote on a federal level

Who were the layers in the Scopes trial? Who was on which side?

William Jennings Bryan argued for the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow, the famed defense attorney, spoke for Scopes.

What is a "double standard"? What did it refer to in the 1920's?

Women did not have the same sexual freedoms as men.

Who was Sinclair Lewis?

Writer that depiced small-town America and 20's materialism/consumerism

Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special attention to the work of writers (for example: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes).

Writers often began to focus on more grim topics in society and turned to satire to do so

What view of U.S. society did the lost generation have?

a disoriented view

What kind of writings did the "lost generation" create?

critical stories about american socitey

What did the NAACP do in the 1920's?

fight for legislation to protect african americans, work with anti-lynching organizations

What did Fundamentalists believe?

the bible should be taken literally

In what ways did women express themselves in the 1920's?

they way they presented themselves socially

Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition).

this amendment enacted prohibition which caused many more problems than it solved. it created nation issues such as increasing murder rates, organized crime, and overall corruption

Examine the passage of the 18th ammendment

this amendment enacted prohibition which caused many more problems than it solved. it created nation issues such as increasing murder rates, organized crime, and overall corruption

What did alcohol cause according to fundamentalists?

urban slums, crime and domestic abuse