1. The Roaring Twenties

2. What four types of mass media and communications challenged traditional values during the 1920s?

3. 1) Radio
2) Movies
3) Newspapers
4) Magazines

4. What two effects did mass media and communications have on American society during the twenties?

5. Created popular culture
Challenged traditional values

6. What new type of American music did radio make popular during the 1920s?
Jazz

7. Define Fireside Chats?
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s radio talks to the American people during the Great Depression and World War II?

8. How did movies help the American people during the thirties?
Provided escape from Depression-era realities

9. Shaped cultural norms Sparked fads
How did newspapers and magazines affect American society during the twenties?
Shaped cultural norms
Sparked fads

10. What scientific theory challenged traditional religion?

11. Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

12. How did Darwin’s Theory of Evolution contradict (go against) traditional Christian beliefs?

13. Conflicted with the Bible’s account of the creation and the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

14. What trial, covered by the media during the 1920s, made traditional religious values look old-fashioned and silly?
The Scopes Trial

15. What two developments in the twenties challenged the traditional role of women?
Flappers
19th Amendment

16. What resulted from the challenge of open immigration to traditional American values?
Rise of a new Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

17. Smuggling alcohol Speakeasies
What resulted from the challenge of Prohibition to traditional American values?
Smuggling alcohol
Speakeasies

18. What were speakeasies?
Illegal bars during Prohibition

19. Why was radio advertising important during the 1920s?
Created national markets for consumer goods

20. What became a major new form of entertainment during the 1920s?
Silent Films

21. What was the first talking picture?
The Jazz Singer (1927)

22. Name four movie stars in the 1920s.
1) Rudolph Valentino
2) Mary Pickford
3) Clara Bow
4) Charlie Chaplin

23. What were two fads in the twenties?
Crossword puzzles
Chinese game of Mah Jong

24. Who was John Scopes?
A high school biology teacher in Tennessee who taught Darwin’s theory of evolution

25. What was the result of the Scopes trial?

26. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee law.
Darwin’s Theory appeared to represent modern America and the future.
Tennessee law and the Bible’s account of creation appeared backward.

27. What did the 19th Amendment do?
Gave women the right to vote

28. What had been the traditional role of women in 19th century Victorian America?
Wives and mothers

29. For what did the flappers become a symbol?
For young, middle class women of the twenties who were rebelling against the traditional role of women

30. Describe the flapper. Bobbed hair Makeup Short skirts
Smoked cigarettes
Drank alcohol

31. What did the 18th Amendment do?
Prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages

32. What were three unintended consequences of Prohibition?
Gangsters smuggled liquor into the United States
Speakeasies
Attacked traditional values

33. What were speakeasies?
Illegal bars during Prohibition

34. What feeling developed among native-born Americans during the 1920s?

35. Anti-immigrant feeling

36. What organization grew rapidly after World War I because of anti-immigrant feeling?
Ku Klux Klan

37. During the twenties, where was the KKK popular?
In different parts of the entire nation, instead of just in the South

38. What groups did the KKK hate during the twenties?
Roman Catholics
Jews
African-Americans

39. In the twenties who did the Klan blame for many of America’s problems?
Roman Catholic immigrants
Jewish immigrants

40. How did Congress give in to anti-immigrant feeling during the twenties?
Limited immigration, especially from southern and eastern Europe

41. What did the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 do?
Placed quotas on immigration from most countries

42. What are quotas?
Numerical limits