Chapter 15 Review – The Jazz Age – Flashcards
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In the 1920's, most African American voters in the North cast their votes for
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Republicans, the party of Lincoln
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Marcus Garvey
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preached a message of separation and independence from whites
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Woodrow Wilson embraced
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Eugenics
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Sacco and Vanzett
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NEVER admitted their guilt after the evidence against them was presented
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Followers of Marcus Garvey planned to leave the United States and resettle in
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Africa
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Many people viewed the Sacco and Vanzetti case as
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an example of prejudice against people based on their ethnic origin and beliefs
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The first talking picture was
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The Jazz Singer
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Introduced and improvisational, early form of jazz
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Louis Armstrong
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Because of the large African American voting bloc in New York,
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many African American candidates from Harlem gained seats in Congress in 1928
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The sharp reduction in immigrants due to new immigration laws in the late 1920's contributed to
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the decline of the Ku Klux Klan
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Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because
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they were Italian immigrants and anarchists
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In the early 1920's the Ku Klux Klan added to its membership by
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hiring public relations people to promote the Klan
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After the Emergency Quota Act was passed, admission to the United States was based on
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immigrants' ethnic identity and national origin
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The new morality of the 1920s glorified
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personal freedom
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John T. Snopes was put on trial for
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teaching evolution
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The Butler Act outlawed
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teaching of evolution
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The Twenty-first Amendment
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repealed prohibition
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The "Sultan of Swat"
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nickname for Babe Ruth
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The flowering of African American arts in the 1920's became known as
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the Harlem Renaissance
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The Universal Negro Improvement Association was formed to
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promote black pride and unity
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The Ku Klux Klan began to decline in the late 1920s
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largely as a result of scandals involving Klan leaders
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The National Origins Act of 1924
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exempted Mexicans from the quota system
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The purpose of the Volstead Act was to
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enforce Prohibition
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One effect of the Eighteenth Amendment was
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an increase in federal police powers
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Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms portrayed
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war's meaningless violence
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The golden age of Hollywood began in 1927 with
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the release of the first motion picture with sound
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In 1920 in one of the first commercial radio broadcast in history, listeners of station KDKA in Pittsburgh heard
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the news of Warren G. Harding's victory in the presidential election
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The Cotton Club
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a Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start
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The NAACP's lobbying efforts influenced the House of Representatives to pass, in 1922,
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anti-lynching legislation
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One of the NAACP's greatest political triumphs occurred in 1930 with
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the defeat of a racist judge nominated for the Supreme Court
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Langston Hughes
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writer who became a leading voice of the African American experience in the United States
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William Jennings Bryan
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prosecutor at the Scopes trial
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Marcus Garvey
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leader of the "back to Africa" movement1
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Charles Lindbergh
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pilot of the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
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Duke Ellington
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composer, pianist, and bandleader whose sound was a blend of improvisation and orchestration
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Al Capone
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a gangster in Chicago during Prohibition
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Oscar DePriest
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the first African American representative elected to Congress from a Northern state
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Margaret Mead
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one of the first women anthropologists
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Billy Sunday
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a former major league baseball player turned evangelical fundamentalist preacher
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Bessie Smith
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a singer who seemed to symbolize soul
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Bohemian
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an artistic and unconventional lifestyle in the 1920's
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mass media
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helped spread the new ideas and attitudes of the 1920's
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Creationism
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said God created the world as described in the Bible
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Great Migration
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created powerful African American voting blocs in Northern cities
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Police powers
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a government's right to control people and property in the interest of public safety, health, welfare, and morals
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Scopes trial
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a dramatic dual between fundamentalism and modernism
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Bootlegging
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illegal production and distribution of liquor
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Eugenics
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warned against breeding the "unfit" or "inferior"
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Evolution
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human beings developed from lower forms of life
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Flappers
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bobbed their hair and drank prohibited liquor
