Culture
This amendment ended Prohibition
21st Amendment
Secret bars are known as what?
Speakeasies
Teapot Dome
What was the name of the raids conducted by the government on suspected communists/anarchists?
Palmer Raids
Which pandemic ended in 1920 and killed an estimated 17 to 50 million people?
Influenza Pandemic/Spanish Flu
The Harlem Renaissance took place in what city AND state?
New York City, New York
(Harlem is a neighborhood in NYC)
The name given to women from the 1920s who rejected traditional social norms. Some ways that women showed this: short hair, makeup, short dresses, and smoking in public.
Flappers
Who is the president who died while in office?
Warren G Harding
What are the names of two immigrant anarchists who were accused of murder and put to death without "proper trial?"
Sacco and Vanzetti
What famous horror movie from the 1920s shows the issues of science vs religion at the time?
Frankenstein
The movement of African Americans from the South to the North for better job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow laws.
Great Migration
What Yankees player set the Major League Baseball record with 52 Home Runs?
Babe Ruth
Soda and Molded Ice Cream became very popular after what became a law?
Prohibition
Vocab term: prejudice against foreign born people
What was the top selling toy of the 1920s?
Raggedy Ann Doll
What famous jazz musician played piano at the Cotton Club, where his music reached thousands over radio broadcast?
Duke Ellington
Charles Lindbergh
This trial is nicknamed "the Monkey Trial" because of it's argument of Evolution vs. Religion.
Scopes Trial
The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited immigration of what two groups of people? (not what countries)
Catholics and Jews
What American newspaper mocked rocket scientist Robert H Goddard after he said rockets could take men to the moon?
The New York Times
Religious movement of the 1920s, where they believe that everything in the Bible is exactly what happened.
Fundamentalism
This crime boss from Chicago led a ring of prostitution, gambling, drug trafficking, and bootlegging through the city from 1925-1931.
Al Capone (Scarface)
This country had the strongest economy after World War I.
United States
What event led to the Red Scare?
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
Even though this object was gaining popularity and "only" about $400 at the time, it was still out of reach of many Americans. In fact, only about 8% of the US population owned one. What is it?
Automobile (car)