USH Ch. 8 - The Jazz Age

What did the 1924 National Origins Act do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How was Marcus Garvey successful in influencing African American culture?

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

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

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

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

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

What was the primary result of the Great Migration?

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

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

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

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

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

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

What position did Herbert Hoover hold in the Coolidge administration?

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

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

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

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

What consumer product changed American society more than any other?

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

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

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

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

What was the significance of the movie The Jazz Singer?

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

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

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

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

What distinguished Carl Sandburg from other writers before him?

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

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

In what way did the mass media promote social change?

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

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

Why did the mass media help unify Americans?

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

How did African Americans influence politics in the 1920s?

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

How did the Harlem Renaissance transform African American society?

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

What was the success of the Washington Conference?

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