Vocabulary
A type of government where resources are shared equally among citizens and there are no social classes
What is communism?
The President blamed for the Great Depression
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Flapper
What is a young woman in the 1920s with bobbed hair, a short skirt, and heavy makeup?
Bakelite
What is an early plastic that did not conduct electricity and was resistant to heat?
The country Americans feared would spread communism to the U.S.
What is Russia
Normalcy
What is returning back to what life was like before World War I?
Speculators
Who are people who buy and sell shares simply and quickly in order to make quick profits?
Amendment that prohibited the selling, manufacturing, and transporting of alcohol
What is the 18th Amendment?
Famous for using the assembly line to create cars
Who is Henry Ford
Two men accused of murder and robbery because of being immigrants and anarchists
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
Manufactured articles are the results of a number of production tasks or processes. In this these actions are performed in sequence by specialist workers or tools as the product passes through the factory.
What is an assembly line?
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries
What is isolationism?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is electrification?
The most extreme group/example of intolerance and racism
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Quota System
What is limiting the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S.?
Who won the election of 1932?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The rising African American culture in New York during the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Used to fasten clothing and fabric
What is a zipper
The movement of six million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
What is the Great Migration?
What is a tax on imports?
Causes of the Wall Street Crash
3 new forms of entertainment during the 1920s
What are baseball, boxing, football, crossword puzzles, Miss America, Radio, Jazz, and movies?
These domestic appliances spread widely because of their new affordability
What is the fridge, washing machine, and vaccum cleaner?
WASPs
What are White Anglo-Saxon Protestants?