U.S. History Chapter 22 Questions

What was America's past time?

Baseball and Football, expecially college

Who was the first president to address the nation on the radio?

Calvin Coolidge

Who is Marcus Garvey?

Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and leading spokesman for "Negro Nationalism" in the 1920's

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti and why were they on trial? (1921)

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants, eager to topple the American government and charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory $16,000 in Braintree, Mass. The trial lasted from 1920-1927. Convicted on circumstantial evidence, many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activities. Both men were armed with loaded pistols when arrested.

What is the 18th amendment?

Prohibition, the ban of alcohol

What is the Volstead Act?

The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment; January 16, 1920. It made Amendment #18 more clear. It stated that wine, beer, of any intoxicating malt of vinous liquor was illegal.

What is modernism?

an early twentieth century cultural movement that rejected traditional notions of reality and adopted radical new forms of artistic expression.

Who are the Wright Brothers and what did they accomplish?

brothers that were owners of a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, that built and flew the first motorized airplane at Kitty Hawk.

What is the Immigration Act of 1924?

federal legislation intended to favor northern and western European immigrants over those from southern and eastern Europe by restricting the number of immigrants from any one European country to 2 percent of the total number of immigrants per year, with an overall limit of slightly over 150,000 new arrivals per year

Who is Sigmund Freud?

founder of modern psychoanalysis in 1926

Who is Charles Lindbergh?

he made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York City to Paris in 33 1/2 hours

How was Henry Ford able to make the Model T so affordable?

he vowed to democratize the automobile

Who is John T. Scopes and why is he on trial?

highschool science teacher in Tennessee that violated the law that prohibited the teaching of evolution. This trial represented the Fundamentalist vs the Modernist. The trial placed a negative image on fundamentalists, and it showed a changing America.

What was the impact of Consumer Culture on America?

mass production and consumption of nationally advertised products came to dictate much of social life and social status; consumption of goods became national obsession

What is nativism?

reactionary conservative movement characterized by heightened nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and laws setting stricter regulations on immigration

Who were flappers?

young women of the 1920's, whose rebellion against pre-war standards of feminity included wearing shorter dresses, bobbing there hair, dancing to jazz music, driving cars, smoking cigarettes, and indulging in illegal drinking and gambling

What were the problems with Democrat Al Smith's campaign?

• 1928 Presidential Candidate, first Roman Catholic to run for the presidency as a Democrat. • The "Happy Warrior" who attracted votes in the cities because he had support of immigrants but lost them in the South because he represented all that was hatefull to southern and western rural Democrats - as well as most rural-towns.

What is the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on America?

• Blacks gained leverage as voters by settling in states with many electoral votes. • Harlem was a "great, dark City" that contained more blacks than any other urban neighborhood in the nation. Nightclub capital of the world. • created a sense of common identity, growing power, and distinctive of self-expression.

What impact did the Jazz Age have on America?

• Large dance halls were built to meet demand for jazz music and dancing. • Women's rights leaders said Jazz Age encouraged rape. • Many young people focused their energies on social and cultural rebellion and spontaneity. • Jazz was an African American slang term meaning sexual intercourse.

What is the NAACP and what tactic did they use to achieve their goals?

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. • leaders met at places associated with anti-slavery movement and issued defiant statements against discrimination. It embraced the progressive idea that the solution to social problems begins with education, by informing people about social problems.

What is the Teapot Dome scandal?

• a Harding administration scandal in which secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall profited from secret leasing of government oil reserves in Wyoming to private oil companies.

What does President Harding mean by a "Return to Normalcy?"

• a campaign promise that was meant to contrast Woodrow Wilson's progressivism and Internationalism. • Harding's campaign slogan, wanting to go back to how things were before the war. • After World War I 1919-20s, when Harding was President, the US and Britain returned to isolationism. The US economy "boomed"; but Europe continued to struggle. It was the calm before the bigger storm hit: World War II.