1920s

This technological advancements helped to create a mass culture in the United States.

• Television

• Phone

• Catalogs

• Radio

Member of the Harlem Renaissance; African American writer; celebrated his culture

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Langston Hughes

• H.L. Mencken

• Hemingway

Select the reaction to increased fear of communism in the United States

• Immigration into the United States required a literacy test

• Immigration into the United States was decreased by a rigid quota system

• There was a decrease in nativism

• Labor unions became more welcoming of immigrants

Why was national attention drawn to the Scopes trial of 1925?

• It represented a conflict between modern science and religion.

• It upheld the right of veterans to protest.

• it revealed the extent of prejudice against immigrants.

The Eighteenth Amendment stated that

• only imported alcoholic beverages could be sold.

• the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned.

• alcoholic beverages could be sold only in government-run stores.

The new optimism and growth of African American culture was best represented by the

• Harlem Renaissance.

• Lost Generation.

• Great Migration.

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against

• capitalism.

• Prohibition.

• the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming America.

Fear of communism in the US during the 1920s.

• Black Scare

• Communism Scare

• Red Scare

• Scopes Scare

Name given to women who challenged traditional standards of behavior during the 1920s.

• Fashionistas

• Pearls

• Charlestons

• Flappers

Famous silent movie star of the 1920s.

• Shirley Temple

• Tom Cruise

• Charlie Chaplin

• Jessica Alba