Ap US history ch 23

• Main ideas from the excerpt

  • Jazz as the first genre of music to inspire a worldwide mania for all things American, drawing from blues and ragtime, and incorporating traditional New Orleans' funeral processions
• Purpose of the Washington Conference in 1921 was to stabilize the size of the U.S.
• What plan established a cycle of payments flowing from the United States banks to Germany to the Allies to ease financial problems on both sides of the Atlantic was the Dawes Plans
• Margaret Sanger is associated with increasing the acceptance of birth control in the 1920's
• Jazz became the symbol of the "new" and "modern" culture of the cities
• Farmers were not sharing in the 1920's prosperity and were seeing an increase in debt
• New York City became famous in the 1920's for its concentration of talented African-American actors, artists, musicians, and writers
• Tennessee biology teacher that challenged the law that banned the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution from being taught in schools was John Scopes
• The amendment that repealed the earlier amendment was
• Assembly line made the biggest impact on changing American society in the 1920's
• What renounced the aggressive use of force to achieve national ends to prevent future wars was the Kellogg-Briand pact
• Film portraying the KKK as heroes during Reconstruction
• Membership in unions declined by 20% during the 1920s
• Jazz was the first genre of music to inspire a worldwide mania for all things American, especially in Western Europe
• Marcus Garvey is most associated with the United Negro Improvement Association, black separatism, and the Back to Africa movement
• 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, enforced by the Volstead Act
• Charles Lindbergh became the most celebrated American of the 1920's when he completed the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic
• The writers of the 1920's who wrote about their disillusionment with the ideals of an earlier time and with the materialism of a business-oriented culture were known as the lost generation
• Liberals protested the conviction and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti because they were innocent
• Warren Harding's memorable phrase in the 1920 campaign was that the American people wanted a return to normalcy
• Eugene Debs was the Socialist leader imprisoned under the Espionage Act during WWI and pardoned by Warren Harding
• 21st Amendment repealed the earlier amendment that had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
• John Scopes changed the law that banned the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution from being taught in schools
• 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages enforced by Volstead Act
• Immigrants from Japan were completely barred as a result of the immigration laws of the 1920's
• Many voters in the 1928 election were prejudiced against the Democratic nominee Al Smith because of his Roman Catholic religion
• Robert La Follette led the new Progressive Party ticket in the 1924 election
• Canadian and Latin immigrants were exempt from the quota restrictions of the 1920s
• Most major industries adopted the assembly line and realized major gains in worker productivity in the 1920s
• American foreign policy in the 1920s was isolationist
• William Howard Taft was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court
• Henry Ford is associated with perfecting the use of the assembly line to increase productivity
• Herbert Hoover won the election of 1928
• Calvin Coolidge became President following the death of Warren Harding