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Roaring Twenties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Secretary of Interior Albert Fall was secretly bribed by oil executives to lease them government land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Albert Falls | Who was first Cabinet official to be sent to prison? |
| a good man but betrayed by members of his cabinet | President Warren Harding |
| nickname of Harding’s corrupt cabinet | Ohio Gang |
| stock market experienced a “bull market”, installment buying or buying on credit begins, economic boom | President Calvin Coolidge |
| his use of the moving assembly line led to the mass production of automobiles, as the cost of Ford’s Model T decreased the number of Americans that owned a car greatly increased | Henry Ford |
| A large number of African American artists, musicians, and writers had begun to settle in Harlem in New York City in the 1920’s | Harlem Renaissance |
| famous painter from the 1920’s that painted many urban and Southwest U.S. scenes | Georgia O'Keefe |
| 1920’s novelist, most famous work was the Great Gatsby which depicted the lives of the wealthy during the 1920’s | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1920’s novelist, The Grapes of Wrath told the story of Oklahoma farmers during the Dust Bowl | John Steinbeck |
| 1920’s painter, most famous paintings were of the Great Migration | Jacob Lawerence |
| 1920’s poet, wrote about the Great Migration and discrimination towards African Americans | Langston Hughes |
| famous 1920’s jazz musicians | Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington |
| fear of communism and anarchy during the 1920’s | Red Scare |
| buying a product on credit or putting a small percent down and making monthly payments | Installment buying |
| millions of African Americans moved to northern cities in search of better jobs and opportunities | Great migration |
| women who wore shorter dresses, bobbed hair and makeup | flappers |
| made law by 18th amendment, lasted from 1920-1933 | Prohibition |
| illegal bars | speakeasies |
| Led to - speakeasies (illegal bars); bootleggers; rise in organized crime (Al Capone) | Prohibition |
| Led to - paved and expanded roads; creation of suburbs; new restaurants and hotels, creation of millions of new jobs | Automobiles |
| one of the biggest economic booms in U.S. history | "Coolidge Prosperity" |
| high school biology teacher, John Scopes, was put on trial for violating Tennessee state law which prohibited the teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution | Scopes Trial |
| had a resurgence during the 1920’s; starting targeting immigrants, Catholics, Jews | KKK |
| people who were against all immigration to the U.S. | Nativists |
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