The Roaring Twenties 1919-1929 HW #8

8th

Section 1 - Adjusting to Peacetime - (Pages 736-740)

2. What was Hardings position on business? 737

a. Return to normalcy frim support of business He meant that things would be able to go back to the way they were before the war.

1. How did economic factors lead to the election of Republican Warren Harding? 736

a. The Democratic party was blamed for the failure of the Versailles peace treaty and the bad economy (recession after the war) (Labor Union Strikes) and were rejected by the voters in the 1920 election.

3. What two things did Andrew Mellon do to help the U.S. to return to normalcy? 737

a. Mellon got Congress to lower taxes on businesses and the wealthy,

b. he also helped to downsize the federal budget

4. Albert Fall - 737

Secretly leased Teapot Dome oil reserve land for bribes. He was the first Cabinet member ever sent to prison.

3. Warren G. Harding -737

President after WWI. Hired his friends as Cabinet members and they were later linked to many scandals including Teapot Dome.

5. Teapot Dome Scandal -737

a. The scandal during President Hardings administration dealing with oil reserves in Wyoming albert Fall secretly leased land and its reserves to an oil man for a bribe of $400,000

6. What was the United States foreign policy after World War I? 738

a. Isolationism and disarmament reduction in the number or limitation of military armaments.

10. Disarmament - 738

the reduction or limitation of military armaments

9. Anarchists -739

b. People who oppose all forms of organized government

8. Communism -738

c. Is an economic and political system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party rules

7. "Silent" Calvin Coolidge 738

President after Harding died, helped the economy boom.

11. What took place during the Red Scare -739

d. Red Scare was a violent wave of anti-communist panic through the USA in 1919 & 1920 after the Communists won the Russian Revolution and looked to spread communism

12. How did this trial affect life in the United States?

a. Fueled nation's fear of radical revolution led to new limitations on immigration

13. What did the National Origins Act Do?

a. Reduced the total number of immigrants to 150,000 a year

b. Allowed for only a certain number of immigrants into the US each year

14. Why did the Ku Klux Klan gain support in cities in the 1920s?

a. Cities were areas that tended to attract large numbers of immigrants and immigrants were viewed during this time as dangerous.

b. To them, the Klan represented a return to all the values that the fast-paced, city-slicker Roaring Twenties were trampling.

c. Believed pure Americans had to guard the societys behaviors and morals

Focus Question: What problems at home and abroad challenged the nation after WWI?

Directions: Answer with 5-8 Sentences & 5 facts

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Section 2 - Changes in American Society - (Pages 741-745)

14. Prohibition - 741

18th amendment, ratified in 1919 and banned alcohol

Enforced by Volstead act, which stated that beverages that have 1/2 of 1% of alcohol was intoxicating

16. Speakeasies

Illegal taverns that sold alcohol during prohibition

15. Bootleggers - 741

People who made, sold, or transported illegal liquor

Liquor Smugglers

8th Grade U.S. History: Chapter 22 Reading Guide Homework # 8-9

8th

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17. Why did prohibition (the 18 th Amendment) fail?

a. Prohibition eradicated saloons

b. Speakeasies created

c. Most middle-class people disobeyed Volstead Act

18. What impact did prohibition have?

a. Rise of bootleggers

b. 1924, Department of Commerce estimated $40 million in smuggled liquor

c. Explosive growth in big city crime - Transported illegal liquor, stole others liquor, killed rivals Ex: Scarface Al Capone

19. In 1925 the Model T cost about $300, which allowed the working man to own a car. Identify 2 impacts the automobile had on America.

a. The industry gave way to service stations, tourism, garages, rubber wheels, and plate glass.

20. How did buying on credit create an economic boom?

a. Buying on credit turned luxuries into necessesities, this in turn inceased the amount of assembly line production and more jobs.

21. How did the Radio help to unify the nation?

a. Radios provided a single activity that most families took part in every night.

b. Programs became familiarities and a way as a nation to be informed about what was going on across the country

22. Why were movie theaters called dream palaces?

a. Theaters transported viewers to a different world, one they may have only once seen in their dreams before.

23. Flappers - 742

Emancipated omen who embraced new urban fashions

Shedding old images

23. What did the changing expectation for women look like?

a. They rebelled against the traditional way of thinking and wore bright make-up and short skirts.

24. Write 5 Tweets from the perspective of a youth living in the 1920s

Each tweet should have at least one hashtag - These should be creative and can be about anything from 1920s popular culture

Dancing

Sports

Movies

New roles for women

Inventions

25. Why did Fundamentalist religions feel challenged in the 1920s?

a. Literal interpretation of the Bible

b. Skeptical of science

c. Creationism v. Evolution

26. Who defended John Scopes in his trial?

Defense lawyer Clarence Darrow VS. William Jennings Bryan (Fundamentalist)

The Roaring Twenties 1919-1929 HW #9

8th

Section 3 - The Jazz Age - (Pages 746-751)

Why were the 1920s called the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz Age?

2. What was the Harlem Renaissance?

In what way was Charles Lindberghs accomplishments symbolic of the 1920s era?

(dont just tell me what he did)

The Jazz Age

Cars also gave young people the freedom to go where they pleased and do what they wanted. (Some pundits called them bedrooms on wheels.) What many young people wanted to do was dance: the Charleston, the cake walk, the black bottom, the flea hop. Jazz bands played at dance halls like the Savoy in New York City and the Aragon in Chicago; radio stations and phonograph records (100 million of which were sold in 1927 alone) carried their tunes to listeners across the nation. Some older people objected to jazz musics vulgarity and depravity (and the moral disasters it supposedly inspired), but many in the younger generation loved the freedom they felt on the dance floor.

Section 4 - The Economy in the 1920s - (Pages 752-755)

1. Which Americans did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s?

*2. Why did so many Americans want to limit immigration?

3.

(a)

What did African American soldiers expect when they

returned home after World War I?

(b) What conditions did they face?

Focus Questions

1. How did social change and conflict mark the 1920s?

2.