US History Quiz 3

Margaret Sanger

- American leader of the movement to legalize birth control during the early 1900's. - A nurse in the poor sections of New York City, she had seen the suffering caused by unwanted pregnancy. - Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

- the mass migration of southern blacks to the north helped spur the creation - W. E. B. Du Bois became the organization's director of publicity and research and the editor of its journal, Crisis

In 1920, only ____% of homes had electricity; by 1930 the number was ___%.

35%; 68%

Negro Nationalism

A cultural and political movement in the 1920s spearheaded by Marcus Garvey which exalted blackness, black cultural expression, and black exclusiveness.

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Marcus Garvey

African American leader durin the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa. Was deported to Jamaica in 1927.

_____ _______ was the first president to address the nation by radio.

Calvin Coolidge

"Aframerican"

James Weldon Johnson coined the term: to emphasize that blacks were no longer divided by their heritage

"Jazz Age"

Name for the 1920s, because of the popularity of jazz - the term was coined by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Air Commerce Act of 1926

Provided federal funds to aid in the advancement of air transportation and navigation; supported the construction of airports

Kelley Act 1925

The federal government began to subsidize the industry (airplanes) through airmail contracts.

Charles A. Lindbergh

United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

flappers

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

After the war, a new ______ encouraged carefree spending.

consumer culture

(1920) For the first time in American history over ___ the population lived in cities.

half

(1920) Almost 1/2 of the white population were either ______ or the children of _______.

immigrants; immigrants

Great Migration

movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

New weekday radio programs popular with middle-class housewives, for example, were often sponsored by national companies advertising laundry detergent and soap - hence the term ________.

soap opera

Amelia Earhart

the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic