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The Roaring Twenties Flashcards
Front
What 4 types of mass media
challenged traditional values
during the 1920s?
What new type of American
music was played on the radio
during the 1920s?
Define “Fireside Chats.”
How did movies help the
American people during the
1930s?
What scientific theory
challenged traditional religion
during the 1920s?
How did Darwin’s Theory of
Evolution go against traditional
Christian beliefs?
What trial made traditional
religious values look oldfashioned and silly?
What 2 developments in the
1920s challenged the traditional
role of American women?
What resulted from the
challenge of open immigration to
traditional American values?
What resulted from the
challenge of Prohibition to
traditional American values?
What were speakeasies?
Why was radio advertising
important during the 1920s?
What became a major new form
of entertainment during the
1920s?
What was the first talking
picture?
Name 4 movie stars in the
1920s?
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Jazz
Radio
Movies
Newspapers
Magazines
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
radio talks to the American
people
Provided an escape from daily
life during the Depression
Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
Conflicted with the Bible’s
account of the creation and the
story of Adam and Eve in the
Garden of Eden
The Scopes Trial
1) Flappers
2) 19th Amendment
Rise of a new Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
1) Smuggling alcohol
2) Speakeasies
Illegal bars during Prohibition
Created national markets for
consumer goods
Silent Films
The Jazz Singer (1929)
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Rudolph Valentino
Mary Pickford
Clara Bow
Charlie Chaplin
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What were 2 fads in the 1920s?
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Who was John Scopes?
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What was the result of the
Scopes trial?
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What did the 19th Amendment
do?
What had been the traditional
role of women in 19th century
Victorian America?
For what did the flappers
become a symbol?
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Describe the flapper.
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What did the 18th Amendment
do?
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What were unintended
consequences of Prohibition?
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What were speakeasies?
What feeling developed among
native-born Americans during
the 1920s?
What organization grew rapidly
after World War I because of
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1) Crossword puzzles
2) Chinese game of Maj
Jong
A high school biology teacher in
Tennessee who taught Darwin’s
theory of evolution
1) Scopes was found guilty
of breaking Tennessee
law
2) Darwin’s Theory
appeared to represent
modern American and
the future.
3) Tennessee law and the
Bible’s account of
creation appeared
backward.
Gave women the right to vote
Wives and mothers
For young, middle class women
of the 1920s who were rebelling
against the traditional role of
women
1) Bobbed hair
2) Makeup
3) Short skirts
4) Smoked cigarettes
5) Drank alcohol
Prohibited (forbid) the
manufacture and sale of
alcoholic beverages
1) Gangsters smuggled
liquor into the United
States
2) Speakeasies
3) Attacked traditional
values
Illegal bars during Prohibition
Anti-immigrant feeling
Ku Klux Klan
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anti-immigrant feeling?
During the 1920s, where was the
KKK popular?
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What groups did the KKK hate
during the 1920s?
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In the 1920s who did the KKK
blame for many of America’s
problems?
How did Congress give in to antiimmigrant feeling during the
1920s?
What did the Immigration
Restriction Act of 1921 do?
What are quotas?
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In different parts of the entire
nation, instead of just in the
South
1) Roman Catholics
2) Jews
3) African-Americans
1) Roman Catholic
immigrants
2) Jewish immigrants
Limited immigration, especially
from southern and eastern
Europe
Placed quotas on immigration
from most countries
Numerical limits