USH Ch. 8 - The Jazz Age

How did the "new morality" of the 1920s change traditional views of marriage?

During the Forbes Scandal, what was Colonel Charles Forbes accused of doing?

Anger against immigrants and emerging racial tensions over jobs led to the rise of which previously defunct group?

For women of the 1920s, new fashions represented ________.

In what way did the mass media promote social change?

_______ was a great writer of the 1920s who wrote about "heroic antiheroes" in World War I.

Women who wore makeup, drank prohibited liquor, and smoked cigarettes in the 1920s were called _______.

Rather than relying on armed force to influence global policy during the 1920s, the U.S. used _______.

What did the 1924 National Origins Act do?

What was the significance of the movie The Jazz Singer?

What was the main focus of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence?

What technological advancement in industry allowed for shorter workweeks for factory workers?

Louis Armstrong is credited with developing an early form of (blank), which combined Dixieland blues and ragtime, called

Which famous scandal involved the secretary of the interior taking bribes to lease oil reserves to private interests?

Who was the first cabinet official in U.S. history to go to prison?

What group of Americans found themselves let go from factory positions when servicemen returned from war?

What exerted a great deal of influence on modernist American art movements in the 1920s?

Pulitzer Prize winner Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote about _______.

One of the striking features of African American writing in the 1920s, as exemplified in Claude McKay's work, was

President Harding's cabinet appointments, including his friends from Ohio, were referred to as _______.

What was one of the major political successes of the NAACP?

How did African Americans influence politics in the 1920s?

Consumerism led to which of the following changes in views on debt and borrowing?

What caused the emergence of the new consumer products which flooded the market in the 1920s?

How was Marcus Garvey successful in influencing African American culture?

What new type of products changed the lives of homemakers in the 1920s?

_______, a prolific and original writer, became a leading voice on the African American experience in America.

The explosion of African American arts, music, and political activity in the 1920s became known as

Why did Henry Ford double his factory workers' pay while decreasing their hours?

What was the result of the Kelly Act, passed by Congress in 1925?

Mellon's principle of cutting tax rates in order to stimulate the economy is known today as _______.

What was the success of the Washington Conference?

Which two of Harding's appointees remained under Coolidge and contributed greatly to the prosperity of the 1920s?

_______ was the most famous nightclub in Harlem in which many musical greats got their start.

What position did Herbert Hoover hold in the Coolidge administration?

The 1920s movement that believed the Christian Bible was literally true and denied the theory of evolution was _______.

Fundamentalists were active in which social movement that pushed for the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment?

Which describes the factors that led to the "quiet depression" in American agriculture after World War I?

What fact about the Sacco-Vanzetti case prejudiced the jury into convicting them for murder?

What consumer product changed American society more than any other?

The belief that one's homeland needs to be protected from immigrants is called _______.

Much of the turmoil of the early 1920s was blamed on _______.

Attorney General Harry Daugherty was accused of accepting bribes in order to _______.

What distinguished Carl Sandburg from other writers before him?

What entertaining pastime rose to new heights of popularity because of the mass media?

The unconventional way in which many writers and artists lived during the 1920s was referred to as _______.

Why did the mass media help unify Americans?

What was the primary result of the Great Migration?

How did the Harlem Renaissance transform African American society?

What process, first adopted by Henry Ford, allowed the price of products to be reduced while volume of sales increased?