A | B |
a celebration of African-American culture in literature and art | The Harlem Renaissance |
This black nationalist association was founded by Marcus Garvey. | Universal Negro Improvement Association |
Among the founders of this association was W.E.B. DuBois. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
became the highest-paid black artist in the world | Bessie Smith |
performed in Shakespeare's "Othello" | Paul Robeson |
In many of her novels, books of folklore, poetry, and short stories, this writer portrayed the lives of poor, unschooled Southern African Americans. | Zora Neale Hurston |
This jazz pianist and composer won fame as one of America's greatest composers. He wrote such pieces as "Mood indigo" and "Sophisticated Lady" | Duke Ellington |
This trumpet player's astounding sense of rhythm and ability to improvise has led many to consider him the single most important and influential musician in the history of jazz. | Louis Armstrong |
This artist produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York. | Georgia O'Keefe |
Gene Tunny defeated this former heavyweight champion in what was called the "fight of the century". | Jack Dempsey |
He was a small town pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. | Charles A. Lindbergh |
This composer merged traditional elements of music with American jazz. | George Gershwin |
This writer's poems celebrated youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional restraints. | Edna St. Vincent Millay |
In "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby", this novelist portrayed wealthy people leading hopelessly empty lives. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Wounded in World War I, this writer criticized the glorification of war and introduced a tough, simplified style of writing that set a new literary standard. | Ernest Hemingway |
The first American to win a Nobel prize for literature, he used the character in "Babbit" to mock Americans for their conformity and materialism. | Sinclair Lewis |
Famous home-run slugger | Babe Ruth |
Dominated women's tennis | Helen Willis |
After World War I, many female college graduates entered "women's professions", such as _____ and nursing. | teaching |
While some 10 million women were in the workforce by 1930, few had risen to _____ positions. | managerial |
In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first ______ clinic in the country | birth-control |
A number of women in the 1920s displayed their new sense of freedom by _____ and drinking in public. | smoking |
Women in the 1920s experienced greater freedom through the help of technological innovations that simplified _____ | household labor |
increased during the 1920s | the crime rate |
stricter social and moral standards for women than for men in the 1920s | Double standard |
This was defended at the Scopes trial | creationism |
He was called as a witness in the Scopes trial | William Jennings Bryan |
someone who provided illegal alcohol | bootlegger |
One of the effects of this was a rise in organized crime | Prohibition |
The American Civil Liberties Union hired him to represent John T. Scopes | Clarence Darrow |
This was an "underground" salon or nightclub where liquor was sold illegally | speakeasy |
industry that did not prosper during the 1920s | farming |
mode of transportation that began as a mail carrying service for the U.S. Post Office | airplane |
president who said "the chief business of the American people is business" | Calvin Coolidge |
called for the abolition of private property in order to equally distribute wealth and power | communism |
The Teapot Dome scandal centered around | oil-rich lands |
In 1928, fifteen nations signed the _____, which renounced war as a national policy. | Kellog-Briand Pact |
Under the _____, American investors loaned Germany billions of dollars to pay its war reparations to Britain and France. | Dawes Plan |
As president, Warren G. Harding favored a limited role for government in _____ and social reform. | business affairs |
_____, a member of Harding's so-called Ohio Gang, was caught illegally selling government and hospital supplies to private companies. | Charles R. Forbes |
As Harding's secretary of treasury, _____ set about cutting taxes and reducing the national debt. | Andrew Mellon |
This established the maximum number of immigrants who were allowed into the U.S. from each foreign country | quota system |
Although its membership sharply increased as a result of the Red Scare and nativism, its power declined once its criminal activity and racial violence became exposed | Ku Klux Klan |
This is a policy of abstaining from involvement in world affairs. | isolationism |
This is an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictator. | communism |
Their radical opposition to any and all forms of governmental led many with similar beliefs to be harassed, arrested, and deported during the Red Scare. | anarchists |
As Attorney General, he sent government agents out on a series of illegal raids to hunt down suspected radicals. | A. Mitchell Palmer |
As the governor of Massachusetts during the Boston Police strike, he opposed the strikers and called out the National Guard to restore order. | Calvin Coolidge |
As president of the United Mine Workers, he led the miners on a strike that eventually resulted in a significant wage increase. | John L. Lewis |