U.S. HISTORY
Jazz Age – Chapter 7 (Section 1-3)
Anarchist:
Eugenics:
Flapper:
Evolution:
Creationism:
Police Powers:
Speakeasy:
Mass Media:
Jazz:
Blues:
People who oppose all forms of government
Pseudo-science (false science) dealing with improving heredity traits; nativists and racists feelings in
the 1920s; emphasis that human inequalities are inherited
A young, dramatic, stylish, and unconventional woman
Charles Darwin’s theory that humans are derived from lower life forms over the course of millions of
years
Belief that God created the world as described in the Bible
A government’s power to control people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare,
and morals
Secret bars
Radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience
Style of music influenced by Dixieland music and ragtime with ragged rhythms and syncopated
melodies
Soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals
1. Why was there a rise in racism and nativism in the 1920s?
Influx of immigrants and a recession
2. What was the Fundamentalist movement?
A religious movement to reassert the Bible’s authority in life.
3.
Why did artists and writers move to Greenwich Village and Chicago’s South Side in the 1920s?
The communities offered freedom from conformity and traditional ideas.
4. Why was Harlem the center of the African American renaissance?
Because of its large concentrated, Black population
5. What were two reasons for the rise in African American political activism?
Harlem Renaissance and Black experience in WWI
Week 16 of 21.
The fourth quiz towards your final.
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