1920s Culture
Business Boom
1920s Politics
Important People
Vocabulary
100
Term that describes an energetic, rebellious, fun-loving woman of the 1920s.
What is a flapper?
100
Henry Ford perfected this method of production, allowing him to mass produce automobiles.
What is the assembly line?
100
His campaign slogan was "Return to Normalcy".
Who is Warren G. Harding?
100
Most notorious gangster of the 1920s and 30s.
Who is Al Capone?
100
Print, film and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people.
What is mass media?
200
Music that grew out of African American music of the South, especially ragtime and blues
What is Jazz?
200
According to President Coolidge, "The chief business of the American people is" THIS.
What is business?
200
Political belief where the needs of the country always took priority over the rights of individuals.
What is communism?
200
He was the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
200
Supplier of illegal alcohol.
What is a bootlegger?
300
This was the first "talkie".
What is The Jazz Singer?
300
Type of economy that depends on a large amount of spending by the population
What is a consumer economy?
300
An intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas.
What is the Red Scare?
300
He created the Universal Negro Improvement Association and promoted a back to Africa Movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
300
A program by which the world would voluntarily give up their weapons.
What is disarmament?
400
African American literary awakening of the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This evolved in the 1920s to show how products could make a person's life better.
What is advertising?
400
Corruption in the Harding administration where government oil was sold for private gain.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
400
He was elected as the 31st President in 1928.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
Employers gave better benefits to their workers in hopes of avoiding strikes.
What is welfare capitalism?
500
Illegal bars that provided prohibited alcohol
What are speakeasies?
500
This major American industry, after booming through WWI, did not share in the economic heights of the 1920s.
What is farming?
500
Hoover called this a "noble experiment".
What is prohibition?
500
These two lawyers contested against each other in the Scopes' Trial?
Who are Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan?
500
Practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return.
What is speculation?
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