Chapter 11 Study Guide

Terms

Teapot Dome Scandal Election of 1924 Laissez-faire economics

Election of 1920 Isolationism “White collar jobs”

Flapper Fundamentalism Pan American Airways

Planned obsolescence “Lost Generation” 18^th Amendment

Volstead Act Harlem Renaissance 19^th Amendment

Prohibition Speakeasies Black Nationalism

Expatriate

Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge J. Edgar Hoover

Rudolph Valentino Jim Thorpe Henry Ford

Charles Lindbergh Langston Hughes Ernest Hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald John Scopes Marcus Garvey

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart Al Capone

Margaret Sanger

1. Why did voters elect Harding president in 1920?

2. What were some of the Republican “pro-business policies” and their effects on the economy?

3. Why are the 1920s considered the “Roaring Twenties”?

4. Explain the details of the Scopes Monkey Trial (background information, trial, verdict, aftermath).

5. How did the automobile affect American life (urban, rural)? Give specific examples.

6. Describe the ways young women of the 1920s departed from the traditional female behavior.

7. How did African Americans contribute to the arts during the 1920s? Give examples of how they did so.

8. What did prohibition and fundamentalism reveal about American society?

9. Was the 18^th Amendment successful in eliminating alcohol? Explain.