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Marthell1920s
1920s
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Warren G. Harding | Elected President 1920 |
| Administration plagued by scandals | Warren G. Harding |
| Political Party of Harding | Republican |
| Year Harding died in office | 1923 |
| Political party of Calvin Coolidge | Republican |
| Year Coolidge was elected Vice-president | 1920 |
| How Coolidge first became president | Warren G. Harding died |
| Said, "The business of American is business." | Calvin Coolidge |
| Year Calvin Coolidge reelected | 1924 |
| Nickname for Coolidge's popular administration | "Coolidge Prosperity" |
| Political Party of Herbert Hoover | Republican |
| How Herbert Hoover had made his fortune | mining |
| Cabinet post held by Herbert Hoover | Secretary of Commerce, 1921-1928 |
| Said, "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land." | Herbert Hoover in 1928 |
| Year Hoover was elected president in a landslide victory | 1928 |
| What ruined Herbert Hoover's presidency | Great Depression started in 1929 |
| State Al Smith was governor | New York |
| First Catholic nominee for president | Al Smith |
| Al Smith's political party | Democratic |
| Year Al Smith ran for president | 1928 |
| Republican candidate who defeated Al Smith | Herbert Hoover |
| What Al Smith wanted to end | Prohibition |
| Al Smith's vice-presidential running mate | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| 1920s labor leader and head of the Socialist Party | Eugene Debs |
| Arrested for criticizing President Woodrow Wilson | Eugene Debs |
| Broke Espionage Act | Eugene Debs |
| Ran for president in 1920 from federal prison | Eugene Debs |
| Lost 1920 election, but received a million votes | Eugene Debs |
| 1920s birth control advocate | Margaret Sanger |
| Organization started by Margaret Sanger | American Birth Control League |
| Modern name of American Birth Control League | Planned Parenthood |
| Wealthy Wall Street investor of 1920s | Andrew Mellon |
| Secretary of the Treasury under Pres. Harding and Coolidge | Andrew Mellon |
| His pro-business policies lead to the boom of the 1920s and the bust of the 1929 crash | Andrew Mellon |
| Developed the Model T | Henry Ford |
| First affordable car | Model T |
| Pioneered the assembly-line process of mass production | Henry Ford |
| The process by which a product is made by a line of workers assembling one part at a time in a repetitive manner | assembly line |
| First person to fly an airplane solo across the Atlantic | Charles Lindbergh |
| Pilot who became one of America's first hugely popular celebrities | Charles Lindbergh |
| Advocate of black pride and resettlement of blacks back to Africa | Marcus Garvey |
| Said, "Africa for Africans, at home and abroad." | Marcus Garvey |
| Founded the Black Star Line steamship company | Marcus Garvey |
| Convicted of mail fraud, imprisoned and eventually deported to his homeland, Jamaica | Marcus Garvey |
| Infamous Chicago gangster | Al Capone |
| Made millions selling illegal liquor during Prohibition | Al Capone |
| Convicted of income tax evasion and jailed at Alcatraz prison in 1931 | Al Capone |
| Occupation of D. W. Griffith | Hollywood filmmaker |
| Directed "Birth of a Nation", 1915 box-office blockbuster | D. W. Griffith |
| 1915 film which glorified the Ku Klux Klan | Birth of a Nation |
| First Hollywood blockbuster film | Birth of a Nation |
| Birth of a Nation box-office sales record lasted this many years | 22 |
| Film which lead to a Ku Klux Klan revival in the `1920s | "Birth of a Nation" |
| Post-World War I crackdown against radicals, especially Socialists and Communists | Red Scare |
| Was fueled by the Communist (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia | Red Scare |
| First head of the FBI | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Series of raids whose purpose was to expose radicals, including Communists and anarchists | Palmer Raids |
| Attorney General of the United States who wanted to get rid of anarchists after a series of mail bombs | A. Mitchell Palmer |
| Crushed radical groups and labor unions in the 1920s | Red Scare |
| Amendment which started Prohibition | 18th |
| Banned the sale or manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the United States | Prohibition |
| Was repealed in 1933 | 18th Amendment |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Amendment which gave women the right to vote | 19th |
| Campaign platform of Warren G. Harding in the 1920 election | return to normalcy" |
| Democratic nominee in 1920 election | James Cox |
| Cause of death of Pres. Warren G. Harding | heart attack |
| Place of death of Warren G. Harding | San Francisco |
| His administration is known for many scandals | Warren G. Harding |
| Republican Candidate for president in the 1924 election | Calvin Coolidge |
| Democratic nominee for president in the 1924 election | John W. Davis |
| 1924 National Origins Act restricted what | immigration |
| Created immigration quotas based on nation of origin | 1924 National Origins Act |
| Law which discriminated against immigrants from Southern and eastern Europe | 1924 National Origins Act |
| Court Case which tested Tennessee's ban on teaching evolution in school | Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Year of the Scopes Monkey Trial | 1925 |
| Attorney for the defense in the Scopes Money Trial | Clarence Darrow |
| Attorney for the prosecution in the Scopes Money Trial | William Jennings Bryan |
| Defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial | John Scopes |
| What John Scopes was accused of | teaching evolution--violated Tennessee law |
| Outcome of Scopes Monkey Trial | John Scopes convicted |
| Probable cause of the Scopes Monkey Trial | Publicity stunt for the city of Dayton, Tennessee |
| Herbert Hoover's campaign promise in the 1928 presidential election | "triumph over poverty" |
| Democratic nominee in the 1928 election | Al Smith |
| Republican nominee in the 1928 presidential election | Herbert Hoover |
| First Catholic to run for president of the United States | Al Smith |
| Winner of the 1928 presidential election | Herbert Hoover |
| Financial panic which struck Wall Street in 1929 | Stock Market Crash |
| 1929 collapse of stock prices | Stock Market Crash |
| Value of stocks lost in 1929 Stock Market Crash | 90% |
| What began in 1929, with the Stock Market craash | Great Depression |
| Group which reached its popularity in the 1920s | Ku Klux Klan |
| Its revival was portrayed in the 1915 film--"Birth of a Nation" | Ku Klux Klan |
| What the 1920s Ku Klux Klan was against | blacks, Catholics, Jews, immigrants, women, alcohol |
| Word for Jews | Semetics |
| What the Ku Klux Klan controlled in the 1920s | Several state governments |
| Origin of "New Immigrants" | Southern and Eastern Europe |
| Number of immigrants to the United States from 1880 and 1920 | 25 million |
| How native-born U. S. citizens felt about "New Immigrants" | Alarmed |
| Act which cut off "New Immigration" | 1924 National Origins Bill |
| Literary and cultural movement of African-Americans in the 1920s | Harlem Renaissance |
| Where Harlem Renaissance was centralized in the 1920s | Harlem neighborhood of New York |
| List three important figures of the Harlem Renaissance | Langston Hughes. Zora Neale Hurston, Claude MaKay |
| Name of group of writers who lived in Europe after World War I | Lost Generation |
| European city which was the center of the "Lost Generation" | Paris, France |
| Three writers of the "Lost Generation" | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein |
| Started by Margaret Sanger | American Birth Control League |
| Modern name of the American Birth Control League | Planned Parenthood |
| Process by which immigrants are made into Americans | Americanization |
| What business leader pushed Americanization | Henry Ford |
| What Henry Ford wanted to take away from immigrants | Their ethnic identity |
| City which hosted the Scopes Trial | Dayton, Tennessee |
| Home of Marcus Garvey's black nationalist movement | Harlem, New York |
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