The Roaring Twenties

Harding and Coolidge mainly focused on

• child labor

• social reform

• the economy

• farm prices

What topic did modernists and traditionalists disagree on?

• welfare reform

• prohibition

• evolution

• organized crime

When a government official made money off of allowing a private company to drill on government oil fields, it was called

• Nativism

• Red Scare

• Sacco and Venzetti

• Teapot Dome Scandal

What famous poem did Lanston Hughes write?

• A Dream Deferred

• Birth of a Nation

• The Great Gatsby

• The Lost Generation

The main cause of the Red Scare was

• drinkers and bootleggers

• fear of communism

• Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance

• Welfare Reform

What created a false sense of prosperity and allowed people to purchase more luxury items?

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Prohibition

• Installment Plan

• Nativism

What happened to American culture as a result of mass media?

• conflict between traditional and modern values

• slowed growth of cities

• mass consumption of consumer goods

• standardization of culture

Organized crime was on the rise in the 1920s due to this

• prohibition

• farm prices

• child labor

• rising tariffs

writers who were against the materialism of the 1920s were called

• Bootleggers

• The Lost Generation

• Fundamentalists

• Conservatives

True or false: Isolationism is a post war trend in the 1920s

• True

• False