American History Chapter 17 Review for Test

African American writer became the lead voice of the African American experience in the 1920s

Scandal where the Attorney General received a bribe & refused to allow any investigation. 

Herbert Hoover established this commission to help regulate the young radio industry?

Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly allowed companies access to US Navy oil reserves

During the 1920s, this group reemerged to oppose any group that differed from white society?

Women who personified the new morals of the 1920s by bobbing their hair, drinking, smoking, etc

Production process where operations are divided into simple tasks to cut unnecessary motion?

Dynamic black leader from Jamaica, who believed in black nationalism.

Nick name for President Harding's friends and old poker and drinking buddies.

What was the most famous nightclub in Harlem during the 1920s?

Who wrote "The Hollow Men," which describes the negative effects of modernism?

Who was one of the most violent and successful gangsters who ruled the city of Chicago?

What 1920s treaty proposed to outlaw war?

Name of a Christian religious movement that opposed the changing morals of 1920s America.

What slogan did Calvin Coolidge use to win the presidential election of 1924?

What conference was held in Washington D.C. to address a post WWI naval arms race?

Who wrote "The Great Gatsby," a novel about the superficiality of modern society?

Who won the presidential election of 1924?

Which African American musician was the first to introduce jazz music to the North?

Who became a national hero in the 1920s for hitting hundreds of home runs?

In what scandal did Colonel Forbes steal scarce medical supplies from veterans' hospitals

What term means an artistic or unconventional lifestyle?

Who made the first crewed, powered flight in history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?

Idea that high tax rates actually reduce the amount of tax money the government collected.

African American singer and exotic dancer who moved to Paris and became an international hit.

Secret bars during the Prohibition Era.

What successful banker & industrialist was the architect of 1920s Republican economic policy?

What term refers to large-scale manufacturing done with machinery?

Term referring to the broad audience that radio, movies, newspapers, & magazines were aimed at.

What case came to represent the prejudice and fears of the 1920s?

Which of the following is a nick-name for the Model T?

What idea encouraged businesses to form trade associations & share information with the gov't?

During the 1920s, people in this industry did not participate in the decade's prosperity.

Who first adopted the assembly line for automobile production?

The idea that the US would be safer and more prosperous if it stayed out of the world affairs.

Who made the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?

What did the 18th Amendment do?

What bill proposed in 1924 & 1928, tried to boost farm prices by having the gov't buy surpluses

What law that made immigration restrictions a permanent policy, lowering immigration quotes?