APUSH Chapter 25
From 1910-1930, how many blacks leave the south?
1 million, can now participate with politics
How many members were in the KKK in the 1920s?
8 million
Who was the first president to address the nation by radio?
Calvin Cooliage
What was the Scopes Trial?
Darrow vs Bryan Scopes was convinced to teach evolution in the school system because it was illegal. Darrow defended Scopes. Scopes only had to pay a $100 fine.
What states passed the law of banning the teaching of evolution?
MS, Texas, and other southern states
Who founded Garveyism?
Marcus Garvey
How did nascar start?
Moonshiners had to have cars to transport the moonshine. Cops began to chase them, so they figure out how to make cars go faster and become lighter. Began racing other moonshiners
Where did jazz emerge from?
New Orleans
Who wrote the Great Gatsby?
Scott Fitzgerald
Who brought sex into the spotlight with his writings
Sigmond Frowd
Who was the leader of fundamentalism?
William Bryan
What was the mood of the setting?
a lot of anti-communists movement, racism, defensive moods
What were the effects from banning alcohol?
a marked increase of drinking and clubs began to pop up.
What was the National Association of Advancement for Colored People for?
advancing the interest of people of color in america
modernism
an artistic movement
What was the armory show?
an international art exhibition that opened in NYC with displays by rebellious artists
What had the KKK expanded to?
anything that was considered "un-American". You had to be native born, white protestants. Mainly concentrated in the midwest
prohibition
banning of alcohol
What was the national pastime in the 1920s?
baseball
Where did people get alcohol from?
bootleggers- the Mafia
What were flappers priorities?
courtship, marriage, and consumerism
What did jazz do?
create carefree dances such as the Charleston and the Black Bottom
Why does Al Capone get put in jail?
for not paying his taxes
What did cars enable for people?
for them to live farther away from work, created new jobs, and spurred road construction.
What did the NAACP founded on?
founded by black and white activists and embraced the progressive idea that the solution to social problems began with education
Who was Al Capone/Scarface?
he had syphilis and it ate away his brain. Brought in $60 million in Chicago because he was a bootlegger that killed off all of his competition and created a monopoly
What was the "New Negro" book based on?
how lives were changing for African Americans.
What does the 18th amendment do?
it bands alcohol in 1919 because not enough grain from the war
What was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
italian immigrants that stole $16,000 from a shoes factory and killed people. They had a seven year trial and then were executed
Emergency Immigration Act
limits people from all over the world
What did the 1920 Census reveal about america?
more people live in cities than in rural areas
What were people like in rural areas?
mostly traditional
What was used for popular entertainment?
movies and dance halls
What were people like in the big cities?
open minded
Harlem Renaissance
poets, writers, and artist
What did Margaret Sanger push for?
proposes abortion and sterilization
What did popular magazines like True Confessions and Telling Tales & True Story focus on?
sex and romance
How did the name "flappers" start?
style of shoe, didn't strap their shoes, letting the strap flap around
What was Einstein's theory of relativity?
that space, time, and mass weren't absolutes but were relative to the location and motion of the observer
What was fundamentalism
that the bible should be taught in schools
What was the quantum theory
that the world is more complex than we thought
What did mobsters outgun the police with?
the "tommy" gun
What does birth control bring?
the beginning of planned parenthood
What did Max Planck come up with?
the quantum theory
What was there an emphasis on in the 20's?
the youth- loosened taboos on alcohol, sex, and dressing
What did the modernist writers- P.S. Eliot, Stein, and Pound- all have in common?
their works has a sense of impending doom, that things weren't going to turn out good
What did eastern european immigrants have?
they had a communist belief
What was Garveyism?
thinking that races should be segregated. Garvey planned to bring all blacks back to Africa
What was the goal of the KKK?
to cocer African Americans and immigrants to leave their communities
What was Heisenburgs uncertainty principle?
you can't measure the position or velocity of something at the same time
