USHG Regents Review, Study Sheet 6A – 1920’s

Prosperity of the 1920’s
1.  Coolidge / “The business of America is business”
2.  Consumerism / America was producing and consuming new goods: refrigerators, autos, etc.
3.  Boom Market / Stock market went up and up on speculation
Social Changes
1.  Flappers / “Free” unmarried women in cities
2.  Women in work force
3.  Jazz Age / Jazz becomes American music
4.  Speakeasies / Illegal taverns; failure of Prohibition
5.  Urban culture / Jazz, speakeasies
6.  Rise of film as entertainment
7.  Literary scene / Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather
8.  Figures of the Harlem Renaissance / Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington
Social Conflict in the 1920’s
1.  Scopes Trial / Evolution
2.  Ku Klux Klan / Made comeback in 1920’s; nativist, anti- immigrant, Black, Jews, Catholics
3.  Red Scare / Palmer Raids
4.  Sacco and Vanzetti / Italians unfairly tried and executed
Causes of the Great Depression/Weaknesses in economy
1.  Underconsumption
2.  Overproduction
3.  Buying on Credit
Black Tuesday 10/29/29 / Stock Market crash
Hoovervilles / Shantytowns
Dust Bowl / Drought on the Great Plains in 1930’s
Bonus Army / WWI vets camp in Washington; demand bonuses
Hoover’s Response / Helped business, not people; "Trickle Down” Economics
Hawley-Smoot Tariff / Disastrous protectionism in response to Depression

“Public Ignores Prohibition Restrictions”

“Evolution and Creation Debated in Scopes Trial”

“Women Bring Change to the Industrial Workforce”

_____1)  What do headlines such as these from the 1920sillustrate?

A.  conflict between traditional and modern values

B.  trend toward mass consumption of consumer goods

C.  hostility of certain groups toward ethnic minorities

D.  debate over the role of government in the economy

_____2)  The influence of Nativism during the 1920s is best illustrated by the

A.  increase in the popularity of the automobile

B.  emergence of the flappers

C.  expansion of trusts and monopolies

D.  growth of the Ku Klux Klan

_____3)  Much of the economic growth of the 1920s was based on

A.  increased trade with other nations

B.  the production of new consumer goods

C.  rising prices of agricultural products

D.  the rapid development of the West

_____4)  Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington are noted for their contributions to the cultural movement of the 1920s known as the

A.  Gospel of Wealth

B.  Lost Generation

C.  Harlem Renaissance

D.  Gilded Age

_____5)  The failure of national Prohibition led to a public awareness that

A.  crime rates decline when the sale of alcoholic beverages is banned

B.  economic prosperity encourages social conformity

C.  unpopular laws are difficult to enforce

D.  geographic conditions affect law enforcement

_____6)  Which conclusion is best supported by the information on the graph?

A.  The level of automobile production remained constant.

B.  The average American family found the automobile too expensive to purchase.

C.  By 1929, most of the automobiles in the world were produced in the United States.

D.  Changes in economic conditions led to changes in automobile production.