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APUSH 1920's Game
Game using 1920's events, people, ideas and terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the name of the collection of New York Music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the US? | Tin-Pan Alley |
| What was the name of the incident that involved the government secretly leasing an oil reserve to a private oil company? | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| What was the term used for women who dressed and behaved in a boldly unconventional manner? | Flappers |
| What was the practice of limiting the manufacturing,sale, and consumption of alcohol called? | Prohibition |
| What amendment allows women the right to vote? | 19th Amendment |
| What was the movement of African Americans from the agricultural south to the industrial Northeast and Midwest called? | The Great Migration |
| Name the theory that the laws of natural selection and evolution, which Charles Darwin observed in nature, could also apply to society. | Social Darwinism |
| What act allows citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the country? | Indian Citizenship Act |
| What production method allows workers to stand in one place and master one repetitive action? | Assembly Line |
| What was the name of the idea that "bad" genetic traits could be bred out and good traits could promoted in order to improve society? | Eugenics |
| Who was famous for his Model T. and a developed the assembly line to quicken factory production? | Henry Ford |
| Who was the US aviator who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927? | Charles Lindbergh |
| Who was the creator of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and a promoter of the "Back to Africa" movement? | Marcus Garvey |
| Who was the American aviation pioneer who founded the US aircraft industry? | Glenn Curtis |
| Who was the poet during the Harlem Renaissance who described the culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. | Langston Hughes |
| What was the group who opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant? | Ku Klux Klan |
| Who was the US gangster who terrorized Chicago during the Prohibition? | Al Capone |
| Who was the leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance? | Louis Armstrong |
| Who was the architect who believed that buildings should grow from their sites not be imitations of Greek and Roman importations? | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| What was the movement where artists used the walls of cities buildings, housing projects, schools, and churches to depict Mexican-American cultures. | Chicano Mural Movement |
| What was the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants called? | Nativism |
| Who was the American writer famous for short stories and novels written in very simple language about difficult subjects such as death and war? | Ernest Hemingway |
| Who was the famous baseball player who played for the Yankees? | Babe Ruth |
| What was the promotion of fear for a potential rise of communism called? | Red Scare |
| Who was the lawyer who defended John Scopes during the Scopes Trial and argued that evolution should be taught in schools? | Clarence Darrow |
| Who began to flood the US in the 1920's? | New Immigrants |
| What was Warren Harding's campaign theme for the 1920's election to appeal to those who were exhausted by the war, inflation, big government, and social dislocation | Return to Normalcy |
| Who were the were Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory in Braintree, Mass? | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| Who was the American author famous for This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, which captured the society of the "Jazz Age,"? | F.Scott Fitzgerald |
| What was the name of the 1920's operation in which federal marshals raided the homes of suspected radicals and the headquarters of radical organization? | Palmer Raids |
| Who was the pianist famous for his development of ragtime music? | Scott Joplin |
| What was the name of the first movie with sound? | The Jazz Singer |
| Who was the United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck? | Walt Disney |
| What was the act that limited the annual number of immigrants that could be admitted from any country into the US? | Immigration Act of 1924 |
| Who was the United States magician famous for his ability to escape from chains or handcuffs or straitjackets of padlocked containers? | Harry Houdini |
| Who was the Anglo-American poet, playwright, famous for The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? | T.S. Eliot |
| Who was the English comic actor and film director of the silent film era, who became one of the best-known for his comedy routines before the end of WWI? | Charlie Chaplin |
| An increase of what allowed Americans to purchase new appliances and automobiles due to a higher production? | Electric Power |
| What was the name of the baseball league for African Americans was led by Rube Foster when organized baseball was segregated? | Negro League |
| What was the name of Henry Ford's cheap and affordable family car. | Model T |
| What is the invention that allowed listeners across the country to listen to the same programs: news broadcasts, sporting events, soap operas, quiz shows, and comedies? | Radio |
| What is the act that specified that no one` shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor. | Volstead Act |
| What was the period in the 1920’s where African Americans writers, poets, painters, and musicians came together to express feelings and experiences called? | Harlem Renaissance |
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