Study Guide Eight

The Twenties

Exam Two

NOTE: If you can answer these questions satisfactorily, you should do well on this section of the first exam. The material below consists of important material from the lecture. Questions on the test will be largely taken from this material.

Terms (definition and significance):

Anti-Unionism

United States Steel Strike 1919

Boston Police Strike

Calvin Coolidge

Red Scare of the 1920s

A. Mitchell Palmer

Sacco and Vanzettie Trial

Emergency Immigration Act 1921

National Origins Act 1924

Biblical Fundamentalism

Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925

Clarence Darrow

William Jennings Bryan

Revival of Ku Klux Klan

Warren G. Harding

normalcy

Veterans Bureau Scandal

Teapot Dome Scandal

Andrew Mellon

Herbert Hoover

Isolationism

Naval Arms Limitation Treaty, 1921

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Guglielmo Marconi

Henry Ford

moving assembly line

Wright Brothers

Frederick Winslow Taylor

scientific management/Taylorism

Great Train Robbery, 1903

Birth of a Nation, 1915

Prohibition

Jazz

Roaring Twenties

“Flaming youth”

“Lost Generation”

Questions to Think About:

What was the mood of American society after WWI?

What were the various manifestations of conservatism and intolerance in American society during the 1920s?

What was the attitude of 1920s toward Big Business? What were the attitudes toward union workers and farmers?

What were the characteristics of Harding and Coolidge as presidents?

What was the situation of the American economy during the 1920s, both in terms of industry and agriculture?

What sort of foreign policy did the United States follow during the 1920s?

How did new inventions and consumer goods affect American society during the 1920s?

What was the nature of American culture during the 1920s?