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Unit 10
Roaring Twenties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Charles Lindbergh | first to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic from NY to Paris in his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis |
| Lou Gehrig | team mate of Babe Ruths, talented baseball player for the Yankees, died from ALS (Lou Gehrig disease) |
| Babe Ruth | The Sultan of Swat, the Big Bambino, The Homerun King, record 60 homers in 1927 |
| Dance marathons | craze of the 20s where contestants could earn cash prizes for dancing the longest, dances could go on for days and partners help each other up during naps |
| Clara Bow | "the it girl" with sex appeal and fame in the silent films |
| Rudolph Valentino | known as the Great Lover he was a famous silent film star |
| Flappers | young women who embraced the new attitudes, fashion, and dances of the decade |
| Sinclair Lewis | famous author of the decade from Sauk Center, he wrote Babbit |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | famous author of the decade wrote the Great Gatsby |
| Redscare | fear of communism in America, led to intolerance toward immigrants |
| Scopes Monkey Trial | High school teacher John Scopes illegally taught the theory of evolution in his class prompting a trial sensation on changing ideas |
| jazz | popular music in the decade originating among black musicians such as Louis Armstrong |
| stock market crash | "Wall Street Laid an Egg" October 1929 an avalanche of selling coupled with panic drove stock values down ushering in the depression |
| Loeb and Leopold | young men responsible for the killing of Bobby Franks because they wanted to see what kind of turmoil the perfect murder would cause |
| farm crisis | farmers faced dwindling markets after WWI resulting in falling crop prices and debt and farm foreclosures |
| Sacco and Vanzetti | two Italian anarchist immigrants charged with robbery and murder, found guilty and executed, but were they victims of the Redscare? |
| Gertrude Ederle | young woman who swam across the English channel |
| Speakeasy | illegal bar during Prohibition |
| Calvin Coolidge | known as Silent Cal, who believed government should not interfere in the economy, stating, "The business of America, is Business." He followed Warren Harding and preceded Herbert Hoover |
| George Washington Carver | African American scientist who despite the discrimination and prejudice of the day excelled as a botanist |
| Harlem Renaissance | period of literature, art, & music growing out of the African American community |
| Al Capone | gangster who controlled a bootlegging empire in Chicago |
| Prohibition | the Noble Experiment began with the 18th amendment, failed miserably as people still wanted to drink, ended with the 21st amendment |
| Suffrage | women finally have the right to vote, thanks to the 19th amendment, and participate for the first time in the presidential election of 1920 |
| Herbert Hoover | president when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began, he initially did little believing prosperity was just around the corner |
| flagpole sitting | oddity of the decade in which Alvin Shipwreck Kelley sat on a flagpole for 13 days |
| Admiral Byrd | first to fly over Antartica |
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