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Roaring 20s
Mrs. Brown's Roaring 20's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| He started the "Back to Africa" Movement and emphasized racial pride | Marcus Garvey |
| The great awakening of African American culture during the Jazz age in New York | Harlem Renaissance |
| The movement of African Americans from the South to the North. They were looking to find better jobs and less descrimination | Great Migration |
| New group of writers who rejected material wealth: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Lewis, etc. | Lost Generation |
| A section of New York City where song-writing and musical ideas mixed together to form popular music. | Tin Pan Alley |
| New independent women who wore shorter skirts and hair, drank, danced, and smoked in public | Flappers |
| Gave Women the right to vote | 19th Amendment |
| Court case about Bible vs. Science. It was considered the trial of the century. It was the 1st ever broadcast on the radio. | Scopes "monkey" Trial |
| Illegal "secret" bars that operated during prohibition | Speakeasy |
| Secretly making and smuggling alcohol | Bootlegging |
| Banned the making, sale, and distribution of alcohol - Prohibition | 18th Amendment |
| A leader of the Temperance Movement, her brother was an alcoholic | Francis Willard |
| Fought against alcohol. This led to the passage of the 18th Amendment and America's "failed experiment" | Temperance Movement |
| Buying something at low cost and hoping to sell at a high price for a quick and easy profit. Mostly real estate and stock market. | Speculation Boom |
| 1st person to fly over the Atlantic Ocean | Charles Lindbergh |
| Designed a sea plan that could land on and take off of water | Glenn Curtis |
| Opened the Ford Motor Company, used the assembly line to produce cars. Gave many people jobs, paid good wages. | Henry Ford |
| Producing cars by moving them along a conveyor belt while workers completed their assigned task. Made mass production of cars possible. | Assembly Line |
| President 1929 - 1932 believed in rugged individualism. | Herbert Hoover |
| American's were strong because they were given equal opportunity, free education, and had the will to succeed. | Rugged Individualism |
| President from 1923 - 1928 believed that "the business of America is business" | Calvin Coolidge |
| President Harding's cabinet members leased oil rich public land to friends in return for bribes | Tea Pot Dome Scandal |
| President from 1921 - 1923, wanted "return to normalcy" after WWI | Warren Harding |
| A time in American history known for prosperity, flappers, prohibition, and Jazz. | The roaring 20's |
| The belief that different races competed for survival, the rich were rich because they were superior humans. | Social Darwinism |
| Pseudoscience belief that the human race could be improved through breeding | Eugenics |
| beliefs, theories, or practices that seem to be scientific, but are not based on actual facts | Pseudoscience |
| Italian immigrants who were tried and executed on little evidence. Many believed they were executed because they were immigrants and communists. | Sacco and Vanzetti |
| People were scared that communists would take over the US | The Red Scare |
| The policy that made America shut itself off from other countries after WWI | Isolationism |
| Repealed the 18th Amendment - People could drink alcohol again. | 21st Amendment |
| Attorney General Mitchell Palmer rounded up 4,000 suspected Communists without warrants and had them jailed or deported often without evidence of wrongdoing | Palmer Raids |
| Wrote the book "The Great Gatsby" about life in the 1920's | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Paying a low down payment and then making weekly, monthly, or yearly payments, created large amounts of debt. | Buying on Credit |
| This granted full citizenship to Native Americans | American Citizenship Act 1924 |
| Attorney General during the 1st Red Scare. He launched a series of raids after a bomb was planted on his porch in an attempt to assassinate him. | Mitchell Palmer |
| They invented the 1st airplane. | The Wright Brothers |
| He was a teacher who violated Tennessee law by teaching evolution, was tried and found guilty and made to pay a $100 fine. | John Scopes |
| He was the prosecutor in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial | William Jennings Bryan |
| He was the defending attorney for John Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial | Clarence Darrow |
| Due to the rise of Nativism, the Ku Klux Klan began to to target not only African Americans, but also Jews, Catholics and immigrants. The membership soared during the 1920's. | Rise of the KKK |
| Producing large amounts of items due to new production techniques, made items available at lower prices. | Mass Production |
| Passed in 1921, 1924, and 1929 to keep immigrants out from Southern and Eastern Europe. | Immigration Acts |
| Due to mass production and buying on credit, Americans were able to buy large amounts of items | Mass Consumption |
| What is used to sell products, usually appeals to what makes people want to buy something. | Advertising |
| Being successful or wealthy. The 20's were a time of this | Prosperity |
| One of the 1st well known gangsters who started his career bootlegging alcohol during prohibition | Al Capone |
| Prohibition led to this because people were willing to break the law to sell and drink alcohol. Gangsters rose up to power and became rich. | Organized Crime |
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