Chapter 31 - American Life in the "Roaring Twenties"

Expanded in the early years of the 1920s due to the growing intolerance and prejudice of the U.S. public

________ was among the writers most affected by the war with him responding to propaganda and the appeal to patriotism.

________ became popular due to materialism and functionalism becoming popular.

Caused millions of death but were convenient and brought pleasure and excitement into the lives of the people

Began in the 1890s with the true birth being in 1903, when the first story sequence was released

________ led a birth- control movement.

Created the National Womens Party to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

Overall the ________ significantly reduced immigration with the Immigration Act of 1924 ending the era of unrestricted immigration to the U.S ..

Was the philosophical movement that took place during the 1920s.

Made interstate abduction in specific circumstances a death- penalty offense

________ grew in the black communities in the North with Garvey founding the United Negro Improvement Association to promote the resettlement of blacks in Africa.

________ led to an increased personal debt with the economy increasingly vulnerable to disruptions of the credit structure.

Claimed that the teachings of Darwinism evolution was destroying faith in God and the Bible

Were young women who were expressive of their dislike towards traditional womanly behavior by wearing short skirts, drinking, driving cars, and smoking

Set the principles of “learning by doing” which ended up creating the foundation of progressive education centered in the belief that “education for live” should be a teacher’s primary goal

Came to be known as the father of the moving assembly line

Became the first man to fly by himself across the Atlantic Ocean

________ argued that sexual repression was to blame for many emotional problems.

Attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition in his monthly American Mercury

________ became a large business in the consumer economy.

________ led ot the invention of the airplane with Orville and Wilbur Wright making their first flight on December 17, 1903 (the flight lasted 12 seconds at 120 feet)

Began 6 years of gang warfare with Capone eventually being tried and convicted of income-tax evasion

Was a black cultural movement that spread out of Harlem

The ________ created the Bureau of the Budget to help the president submit an annual budget to Congress in 1921.

________ replacing the Quota Act of 1921 with the quotas for foreigners being cut from 3 % to 2 %.

________ and anti- foreignism were reflected in the criminal case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

The first ________ were being transmitted in the 1920s.

Started an industrial revolution in the 1920s with the new industrial system being based on assembly-line methods and mass-production techniques

________ allowed for women to not needing to be dependent on men.

Was used as a form of anti-German propaganda in WWI