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US Box Quiz 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Speakeasies | a place where alcohol was sold and consumed illegally during prohibition |
| Flappers | a free-thinking women who took on new fashions and urban attitudes during the 1920’s |
| Harlem Renaissance | a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture during the 1920”s |
| Nativism | the favoring of native born people over foreign born people |
| Dawes Plan | American investors loaned Germany $2.5 billion to pay back Britain and France for WWI reparations (Do not confuse with the Dawes Act) |
| 18th Amendment | 1919, prohibition made the manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol illegal |
| 19th Amendment | 1920, gave women the right to vote |
| 21st Amendment | 1933, repealed prohibition |
| Louis Armstrong | a famous Jazz trumpet player of the 1920’s |
| John Scopes | 1925, a biology teacher who was who was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution |