The jazz age Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
18th Amendment | prohibition of alcohol |
19th Amendment | allowed women to vote |
Emergency qouta act | puts a limit on the people who are allowed to immigrate to the united states. |
Scopes trial | a teacher was teaching evolution, and people thought it was inapropriate to teach evolution so they put him on trial |
Sacco and Vanzetti case | two men were accused of stealing shoes and Sacco & Vanzetti were put on trial. The men were both foreign, this revealed how paranoid America was towards immigrants and communists. |
actions of Calvin Coolidge in the Boston Police Strike | Calvin coolidge fired the entire Boston Police Force |
Corruption Scandal that symbolized Harding's screwups | The teapot Dome |
Babe Ruth | Famous baseball player |
The jazz Singer | The first non-silent movie |
The results of the car boom | Tourism was more prominent, the steel, glass, iron, tire, and other industries were supported by the car boom |
Charles Lindbergh | Was the first person to break the Sound Barrier with his plane, the Spirit of Saint Louis |
Will Rogers | Was a comeidian who was around in the 1920s, he was of Native American descent |
FDR | President during the Great depression, he designed a set of reforms called the New Deal. |
John Steinbeck | Was a writer, wrote the Grapes of Wrath and of Mice and men |
Eleanor Roosevelt | First lady |
Frances Perkins | Was the first woman to be appointed to a cabinet position |
Dorothea Lange | Woman photographer |
The Great Depression | period of time in which there was a rescession and it was economicaly rough, many people were poor |
defualt | failure to meet an obligation, especially a financial one |
Fireside Chat | President Roosevelt's radio chats |
Black Thursday | The day that the stock market crashed. |
CCC | Gave jobs to people such as building bridges |
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