The Roaring Twenties Review
The 1920s were a ______decade for most Americans. During this prosperity many American observers began to call the decade the ______. These observers came to this conclusion because of new forms of ______and communications and challenges to ______values. Traditional values were challenged by ______, ______, newspapers, and ______. Commercial radio began, when station KDKA made the first radio broadcast in ______, Pennsylvania on the night of the 1920 presidential election. By 1929 ______percent of American homes owned radios. Radio ______created national markets for consumer products, like General Electric refrigerators and Listerine. Radio broadcast of ______made this new style of music both popular and respectable among the American people. Radio also became a communication tool of politicians. For example, throughout his presidency in the thirties and early forties, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used “______” or radio talks as a primary means of communication with the American people. Initially, President Roosevelt used these “Fireside Chats” to reassure and inform the American people during the ______
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Another major new form of mass entertainment during the decade of the twenties was ______. In 1927 the American moviegoer had the opportunity to see the first talking picture, called ______. Movies also created national stars, like Rudolph ______, Mary ______, Clara ______, and Charlie ______. One reason films remained so popular during the Depression was they provided Americans with an ______from Depression-era realities. Two print media that influenced American popular culture during the twenties and thirties were ______and ______. ______, ______, and The ______were three magazines that appealed to a general middle class audience. The creation of a national popular culture by radio, movies, and the print media led to the growing popularity during the twenties of such national fads as ______puzzles and the Chinese game of ______. These changes in mass media and communications during the twenties brought immense ______change to the United States.
Many of the social changes of the twenties challenged traditional ______. These challenges to traditional American values resulted in ______reaction and ______conflict. One major cause of social conflict was the increasing popularity of ______theory of ______. Darwin’s theory challenged the traditional Christian belief in the Bible’s account of ______. Evolution means gradual ______, and in biology the term evolution refers to the ______in a population over time. ______was an English biologist, who wrote a book called The Origin of Species. In The Origin of Species Darwin set forth the idea of ______. The idea of natural selection focused on the importance of ______and ______in the development of species. By the 1920s, many Christians in rural America viewed Darwin’s theory of evolution as an attack on their ______.
In 1925 the legislature of ______passed a law that made it illegal to teach any theory that denied the Bible’s story of Divine creation. John ______was a biology teacher at a public school in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes wanted to teach ______theory of ______to his high school students. Newspapers and radio stations from all parts of the United States covered the Scopes ______as a major news story. Although the court found Scopes guilty of breaking Tennessee law, the nation press made the prosecution’s lawyer look ______and Tennessee appear to be ______.
Traditional American values during the 1920s were also challenged by young ______. In 19th century Victorian America, the traditional role of the American middle class woman had been that of an obedient ______and loving ______. In 1920 the ______Amendment gave American women the right to vote, and they voted nationally for the first time in that year’s ______election. The decade of the twenties witnessed great change in the attitudes of many ______American ______. The ______became a symbol for rebellious young, middle class women of the 1920s. Flapper was a term used to describe young women of the 1920s who______or ______in such unconventional ways, as drinking beer and whiskey, smoking cigarettes in public, and wearing short skirts, bobbed or short hair, and lots of make-up. The youthful ______greatly upset American traditionalists. Flappers publicly expressed their sexuality in ______, ______, and ______life. They ______their hair, which was a particular style of short haircut and use lots of ______. Flappers also wore ______skirts, smoked ______in public, danced erotic dances like the ______and ______, and drank illegal ______beverages.
The _____ Amendment made the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal. This amendment, also called Prohibition, took effect in ______. ______reformers worked for its ratification, because they believed drinking alcoholic beverages was a sin that could destroy the American family. The 18th Amendment was one of the final reforms of the ______movement. Unfortunately, Prohibition had three major ______consequences. First, ______smuggled massive quantities of alcohol into the United States. Second, illegal ______opened in many American communities, especially the large cities. Widespread violation of the 18th Amendment contributed to the attack on ______American ______during the decade of the twenties. Gangsters used the profits they made from the sale of illegal liquor to establish ______. The illegal bars that operated during Prohibition were called “______.” The obvious failure of Prohibition resulted in the repeal of the 18th Amendment in ______.
During the 1920s, many native-born Americans developed a strong _____-______feeling. Three factors contributed to the rise of this intolerance of immigrants. First, native-born Americans often held racial and ______prejudice against people who were different from themselves. Second, many native-born Americans feared _____ competition from immigrants. Finally, many Americans believed that immigrants might bring with them to the United States radical ideas like ______.
Largely as a result of this opposition to immigration, the ______once again became popular among many white, native-born Protestant Americans. However, the KKK in the twenties was different from the Ku Klux Klan of ______. In the earlier period the Klan had strong support only in the American ______, but now it was popular in various parts of the entire ______. During Reconstruction the Ku Klan Klan focused its prejudice on ______-______, but in the twenties the Klan was also anti-______and anti-______. Throughout the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan claimed to defend ______values and blamed Roman Catholic and Jewish ______for many of the nation’s problems. Unfortunately, Congress went along with the decade’s anti-immigrant feeling by passing laws that ______immigration. For example, the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 placed the first ______on most immigration to the United States. Quotas are ______limits. The Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 particularly discriminated against immigrants from ______and ______Europe. A second immigration law, passed in 1924, placed even ______quotas on immigration. These two immigration laws had the effect of cutting off most European immigration until the end of ______. The 1924 immigration law did/did not limit immigration from either Canada or Latin America.