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Grade 8 - Unit 5
The Roaring Twenties
Question | Answer |
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Teapot Dome Scandal | A controversy during the Harding Administration in which government officials were accused of taking bribes to allow oil to be mined from federal lands. |
Kellogg-Briand Pact | An agreement signed after WWI between nations proposing peaceful solutions to conflicts. |
Moving Assembly Line | An innovation of Henry Ford that dramatically reduced the cost of production. |
Model T | Henry Ford’s automobile that was designed with the average American in mind. |
Red Scare | A wide-spread fear of communism and communists. |
Flappers | Young women who challenged traditional ideals of womanhood in the 1920s. |
Great Migration | A period when African Americans migrated from the South to large Northern cities seeking better opportunities. |
Talkie | A film that included sound. |
Jazz Age | A name for the decade of the 1920s based on the popularity of jazz music. |
Harlem Renaissance | A period of African American artistic achievement during the 1920s. |