HIST 1302 CH 25 – Flashcards
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One aspect of nativism in the 1920s was fear of recent immigrants who might be Communists or anarchists.
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True
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The Ku Klux Klan was directed against blacks, Jews, and Catholics.
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True
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Former secretary of state and presidential contender William Jennings Bryan was a fundamentalist.
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True
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Interracial marriages became acceptable to most in American society during the 1920s.
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False
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Organized crime began during the Depression.
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False
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Basketball became the national sport in the 1920s.
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False
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H. L. Mencken dubbed the twenties the "Jazz Age."
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False
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The gangster Al Capone was finally convicted for bootlegging in 1929.
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False
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The great migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the North continued into the 1930s.
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True
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Prohibition outlawed the consumption of alcoholic drinks.
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True
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Countee Cullen and James Weldon Johnson were part of the Harlem Renaissance.
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True
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By 1920, Marcus Garvey believed blacks should flee America for Africa.
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True
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Henry Ford invented the automobile.
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False
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W.E.B. Du Bois was a leader in the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
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False
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Proponents of literary and artistic change included T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
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True
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The Sacco and Vanzetti case became a cause célèbre because of the defendants'
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radical Italian backgrounds.
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The purpose of the 1924 immigration law was to
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limit immigration from eastern and southern Europe.
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In the trial of John T. Scopes in 1925,
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fundamentalists won the conviction of Scopes.
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The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution
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started Prohibition.
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In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan
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all of the above
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The most significant development in black life in the 1920s was the
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Great Migration northward.
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The most significant economic and social development of the early twentieth century was
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the automobile.
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Prohibition
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all of the above
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The flappers
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seemed a shocking example of the "new feminism" to the older generation.
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The Harlem Renaissance, an artistic and literary blossoming, featured the works of
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Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) sought to solve racial problems by
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focusing on legal challenges to discrimination.
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The scientific work of Einstein, Heisenberg, and others
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suggested that there is a limit to our ability to understand the universe.
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Most women in the twenties
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were not flappers.
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"All of you young people who served in the war, you are the lost generation," said
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Gertrude Stein.
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Modernism included
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impressionism in art and Freudianism in psychology.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Wrote The Sun Also Rises
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Clarence Darrow
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defended the teaching of evolution in the Scopes Trial
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Werner Heisenberg
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Developed the principle of uncertainty
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
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Pressured the government to prohibit alcohol
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Marsden Hartley
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an American Artist who reported from paris in 1912 on the "new psychologists" like Sigmund Freud
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The Ku Klux Klan
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attacked blacks, Jews, and Roman Catholics
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T. S. Elliot
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wrote The Waste Land
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Harold Edward "Red" Grange
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Was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost"
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Marcus Garvey
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founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Wrote the Side of Paradise
