The 1920s

The Roaring Twenties were characterized by....

• Internment camps, rationing of goods, first use of the atomic bomb
• bank failures, the New Deal, bread lines
• installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers
• brinkmanship, McCarthyism, and a policy of containment

"America's present need is not heroics but healing...not revolution but restoration...not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality."
-Warren G. Harding, 1920
This excerpt illustrates Harding's campaign promise to be a president who would...

• help the country recover from the turmoil of the previous decade
• refuse to allow the continuation of laissez-faire economic policies
• use diplomacy to establish alliance with other countries
• improve economic growth by promoting unrestricted immigration

Which of the following was a major contribution of the Harlem Renaissance to U.S. culture?

• It led to the increased popularity of vaudeville stage performers
• It brought the most significant beat poets together.
• It established jazz as a prominent musical form
• It focused attention on the anti-war literary genre. 

Which pull factor contributed to the Great Migration?

• Availability of land grants for homesteaders
• Economic opportunities in industrialized areas
• Better soil conditions in previously uncultivated areas
• Lower cost of living in urban areas

Which of these contributed to the ratification of the 18th Amendment?

• Veteran soldiers protesting to obtain benefits
• The growing political influence of women
• Politicians campaigning for education reform
• The growing number of workers organizing into labor unions

1908: Ford begins manufacturing the Model T
1913: Ford introduces the first moving automobile assembly line
1914: The Ford Motor Company doubles worker pay to $5 a day and cuts the length of a shift from 9 to 8 hours
1921: Ford Motor Company accounts for 55 % of the automotive industry's total production.
How did these events affect U.S. businesses?

• Profit sharing became standard practice for industrial corporations
• Monopolistic practices were abolished by federal legislation
• Mass-manufacturing techniques were adopted to maximize production
• Retirement plans were guaranteed to factory workers

Which of these cause-effect relationships is accurate?

• Ideas of Social Darwinism led to the passage of Prohibition laws
• The signing of the Treaty of Versailles led to the implementation of the New Deal
• The ideas of the Harlem Renaissance influences the grown of the Civil Rights Movement
• The rise of fascism in Italy influence the onset of the Red Scare

Who was a popular African-American poet?

• Langston Hughes
• Louis Armstrong
• Billie Holliday
• Zora Neale Hurston

What Jazz musician played the trumpet so well he was called "Satchel Mouth" or "Satchmo?"

• Langston Hughes
• Louis Armstrong
• Billie Holliday
• Zore Neale Hurston

Women who wore short hair, short skirts, and who drank, smoked and danced in public were called....

• Speakeasies
• Bootleggers
• Dames
• Flappers