Question | Answer |
Charles Lindbergh | was known for flying a plane from the us to Paris nonstop with only a tooth brush packed |
Gertrude Ederle | The first women to swim the English channel in 14 hours 31 minutes beating the team of a male swimmer |
Warren g Harding - years in office | 1921-1923 |
Warren g Harding - Political party | republican |
Giggle water means | alcohol |
Gin mill means | place where alcohol was made |
Pinch means | arrest |
Speakeasy means | secret bar |
Ossified means | drunk |
All wet means | mistaken |
19th amendment states | women have the right to vote |
flappers are a nickname for | a daring girl |
rakes are a nickname for | a daring guy |
what are some Major movie production companies | Warner brothers, fox film corporation and paramount. |
Important theater area | Apollo theatre |
Growth of radio- first radio station | kdka |
what did people listen to on the radio | baseball games news and music |
why was prohibition created | to reduce crime and to stop men getting drunk and going home to beat the wife and kids |
wets | people who went against prohibiton |
drys | people who supported prohibition |
AL Capone was | a crime mobster who provided underground illegal bars to drink liquor |
legal alcohol substance in the 1920s was called | marijuana |
what was the kkks beliefs | that america should stay american |
what was the kkks impacts on society | racial discrimination |
red scare | made labor strikes which led to communism spreading from Lenin & the soviet union |
Sacco and Vanzetti importance | shows prejudice (anti-immigration/nativism) |
Henry ford-model t | a car built by ford motor company from 1908 to 1927 |
assembly line | where an arangement of workers will be placed to assemble a car together |
babe ruth | was a famous baseball player who spent 22 years in the major leagues |
calvin coolidge years in office | 1923-1929 |
calvin coolidge political party | republican |
calvin coolidge is best known for | silent cal and lowered taxes |
warren g Harding is best known for | tea pot dome scandal |
significance of newspapers | it gave advertisements for jobs, talked about current events and entertainment |
Harlem renaissance | renaissance came from the french word rebirth or revival the term refers to all of the African Americans who were recognized and won fame during the 1920s |
louis armstrong | a musician who was known for singing and playing the trumpet and was also African american |
duke ellington | american composer and pianist who wrote over 1,000 composition |
black pride | a slogan where it showed pride in being black |
Marcus garvey | a supporter of the black nationalism of the and pan-africanism movements inspiring nation of islam and the rastafarian movement |
jazz | a music style that originated in the early 1920s in the south |
the charleston | one of the well known famous dances in the 1920s |