Chapter 11 – The Twenties (1920’s) Study Guide
Explain/Define the following concepts or people.
1. Impact of Automobiles on Society (pg 326)
2. Henry Ford
3. Mass Production/Assembly Lines (pg 324-325)
4. Installment Buying—Access to Easy Credit (pg 328)
5. Consumer Changes in Cities, Suburbs, and Country (pg 328-329)
6. Kellog-Braind Pact (pg 333-334)
7. Dawes Plan (pg 334)
8. Quota System (1921)-(pg 337)
9. Modernism
10.
Fundamentalism
11. National Origins Act 1924/Understanding Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants(pg 338)
12. KKK Returns/Increased Lynchings – (pg 339-340)
13. Race Riots –Tulsa Race Riot
14. Flappers (pg 347-348)
15. Impact of Lost Generation of Writers and Their Literature (pg 350)
16. Ernest Hemingway (pg 351)
17. F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. Harlem Renaissance
19. Jazz Age (pg 344)
20. Marcus Garvey: “Back to Africa” movement
21. Scopes Trial/Clarence Darrow – (pg 336)
Answer the following questions regarding Ch 11.
Essential Questions
1. What impact did automobiles have on the U.S. society?
2. What allowed consumers to spend more money?
3. Why was the government reluctant to interfere in the economy?
4. What was the immigration quota system and why was it established by the U.S. government in the
1920’s?