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This President won the election of 1920 and was better known for his scandals than politics.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
This President slowly but surely rebuilt the integrity of the presidency.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
The nickname given to the controversial members of Harding’s cabinet.
What is The Ohio Gang?
This scandal over Oil Reserve Rights rocked Hardings Presidency.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
San Francisco and a heart attack.
The cause and location of Hardings death?
An increase in immigration and raising tensions over job availability post WWI lead to a revival of this group.
What is the KKK, Ku Klux Klan?
These men were two Italian Immigrants accused of a Robbing a shoe factory and killing the paymaster and a guard There was not any real evidence against these men and the judge and jury were biased against them, they were found guilty, this case is important because the ACLU was formed to try to help save them also many other prominent figures supported them.
Who are Sacco and Vansetti?
This was a movement started by Marcus Garvey which encouraged African Americans to return to their roots.
Back to Africa Movement
This area became a center of African American Cultural Awakening.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Movement to live life strictly by the bible, the King James Version, Against Darwin’s theory of Evolution.
What is the Fundamentalist Movement?
The Theory of Evolution
What is the belief that all life on the planet over time went from simple to complex?
The result of the Scopes Trial.
What is Bryan looked like and idiot and Scopes was found guilty and then innocent by the Tennessee SC ?
The act that made teaching evolution illegal in tennesse
What is… The Butler Act
The Prosecutor and Defense Attorney.
Who are… Prosecuting Attorney- William Jennings Bryan Defense Attorney- Clarence Darrow?
The real importance of the Scopes Trial.
What is it exposed a sharp divide between Urban and Rural America, be prepared to explain this further for the test?
The three things involving alcohol that prohibition outlawed.
What are manufacture, sale and transportation?
The reasons why prohibition originally enforced.
What is people thought that it hoped to reduce unemployment, domestic violence, and poverty?
Underground bars were alcohol was illegally sold.
What is a speakeasy?
People who were called this illegally transported alcohol.
What are Bootleggers?
Things Bootleggers did avoid being caught
What is… supercharged their engines, and modify shocks
I was the most infamous mob boss of the Prohibition Era.
Who is Al Capone?
Remote heavily forested and hilly location, poverty, distrust of government and law enforcement
What are the reasons why moonshiners settled in Appalachia?
Formed to combat the Organized Crime Syndicates that appeared as a result of Prohibition. Since it was a national crime that crossed state boundaries.
What is Federal Bureau of Investigation of FBI?
American Response to a fear of communism
What is the Red Scare?
The Crime that Scarface was initially indicted for.
What is tax evasion?
This gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19 th Amendment, 1919?
Prohibition established, Prohibition repealed.
What are the 18 th and 21 st amendments?
Three characteristics of Flappers.
What are the bob, Drank and smoked in public, short skirts, loose fitting tops, heavy makeup, etc.?
This organization was created to combat racial discrimination.
What is the NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
Three ways that the 1920’s were impacted by the First World War.
What are (Possible Essay and Response on the test) Soldiers going to WWI freed up factory jobs in north- Great Migration which Fueled KKK feelings, Harlem Renaissance, NAACP, etc Soldiers who fought in the war wrote from that perspective in their writing (dark novels) Workers had money to spend and could not during the war, following the war their was a huge push in consumerism. Agriculture was crippled over spending during the boom of WWI combined with the Great Depression in Europe and a Drought. Minorities worked in traditional white male roles during the war and then wanted equal rights as a result of this (19 th Amendment, Flappers, NAACP, ACLU, etc..)
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Two reasons that the 1920’s will become the golden age of sports.
What are people had disposable income, the radio, and the automobile?
Two sports figures from the 1920’s and the sport that they were involved in.
Who are Jack Dempsey- boxing heavy weight champ Harold “Red” Grange- University of Illinois Running back carried the ball 21 times for 402 yards. Knute Rockne- One of the most famous football coaches of all time. Notre Dame The sultan of Swat- Babe Ruth Tennis- “Big Bill” Tilden and Helen Wills Gertrude Ederle- the first women to swim across the English Channel?
We were called this because we threw the 1919 world series and brought sports gambling into the average Americans life.
Who are the Black Sox?
I was notorious for my Homeruns and am arguably one of the best players of all time.
Who is Babe Ruth?
Who was the biggest name boxer of the 1920’s?
Who is Jack Dempsey?
Ways that Radio will be such an influential form of mass media at the time.
What are advertisements, shows, news, sports, etc?
It was said I brought Jazz to the North.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
I was famous for my physical comedy and my most famous character was the “Little Tramp”.
Who is Charlie Chaplain?
In 1929 I appeared in my Debut Role, Steamboat Willie.
Who is Mickey Mouse?
A movie with sound.
What is a talkie?
Provided entertainment in your own home.
What is Radio?
Three Post-war Authors
Who are F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, T. S. Eliot, John Dos Passos, Waldo Peirce, Isadora Duncan, Abraham Walkowitz, Alan Seeger, and Erich Maria Remarque?
It established restrictions on immigration as a result of the shrinking job market in the US.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
Reasons for Nativist Feelings in the US.
What is overpopulation of urban areas combined with Migration, immigration, and Job Loss?
Calvin Coolidge philosophy on government as president v. as governor and what this meant.
What are Laissez Faire v. Hands on, States Rights?
This was the initial response to immigration issues post WWI
Emergency Quota Act
The man who revolutionized the automobile industry and how he did it.
Who is Henry Ford, efficiency (moving assembly line)?
The rate at which automobiles were rolling of the assembly line.
What is every ten seconds?
Model T’s came off the assembly line in all of these colors.
What is Black?
The idea of buying now and paying later.
What is the impact of Credit?
The ways that the Automobile impacted American society.
What are Expansion of the roads, early forms of tourism, explosion in industries that support the automobile industry, break down of the family, dating patterns, status symbol, accidents, terms, suburbs, use of resources, pollution, etc…?
This stemmed from the emergence of communism and resulted in the creation of the FBI and an increase suspicion of immigrants
What is The Red Scare
This fueled immigration restrictions, KKK, Sacco & vanzetti’s conviction and eugenics.
What is Natavism or Natavist Feelings
This dealt with violating the Butler Act and exposed the differing values of the rural and urban life at this time
What is the Scopes Trial?
A specific area of our economy that was struggling during this time of prosperity.
What is Agriculture/ Farming- prices fell after the war and the government would not bail them out
October 29, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday.
One of the Scandals that rocked Harding’s Presidency over Naval Oil Reserves.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
A big reason sports will expand and become easier to follow.
What is Radio?
My time as a Taxi driver in WWI was said to influence my writings.
Who is Ernest Hemmingway?
A pilot who was said to inspire the nation.
Who is Charles Lindberg
The title of the Newest James Bond Film and the Actor who plays 007?
What are Skyfall and Daniel Craig?