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What Amendment repealed Prohibition?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