Chapter 23 - The Twenties 1920-1929

1920s

In the ________, Charles Evans Hughes, State Secretary, and other leaders of the Republic pursued policies to expand America's economic activities abroad.

presidential election

The 1928 ________ was a national referendum about the new era of the Republic.

1890s

The early phonographs used wax cylinder recordings and replays, originally marketed in the ________.

popular medium

The phonographer became a(n) ________ for entertainment in the 1920s, just like radio and cinema.

White Race Terror

The original Klan was established as a(n) ________ against Newly Liberated Slaves in the Reconstruction South.

Herbert Hoover

________, who dominated the Harding and Coolidge Cabinets as Commerce Secretary before becoming President himself in 1929, was the leading Republican figure in its new era.

Sheppard Towner Act

In particular, the ________ of 1921 set up the first federally financed healthcare program, providing the corresponding funds for states to set up prenatal and child health centers, was the greatest, if limited, victory for female reformers.

NYC

The early film industry, based in ________ and a few other major cities, had regularly made film for millions of Americans, in particular immigrants and the working class.

Immigration Act

The ________ was approved by Congress in 1921, and maximum new immigrants were established each year by 357, 000.

automotive industry

The ________ was the clearest example of the increase in consumer sustainability.

1920s

In America's manufacturing industry, which technological innovation allowed industrial output to be improved without expanding workforce, the prosperity of the ________ rested on what historians called the second industrial revolution.

1920

The ________ U.S. census was the first in American history to show that the proportion of the urban population outweighs that of the rural population.