Significant Events
What was the average price of gas in 1915?
What is 15 cents
Who is was the biggest bootlegger?
Who is Al Capone. He was one of the biggest bootleggers during the Prohibition. He was in charge of the big massacre on Valentine's day. He also got in trouble for tax inovation.
Whose quote is this?
"Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants as long as it is black"
Who is Henry Ford
What was the nickname of the 1920's?
What was The Roaring 20s
What was the 18th amendment
banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors–ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition. Prohibition was ratified by the states on January 16, 1919 and officially went into effect on January 17, 1920, with the passage of the Volstead Act. The increase of the illegal production and sale of liquor (known as “bootlegging”), the proliferation of speakeasies (illegal drinking spots) and the accompanying rise in gang violence and other crimes led to waning support for Prohibition by the end of the 1920s.
Who was George Remus?
He was a lawyer that got in trouble and became a boot legger. He bought whiskey used for mecdicinal purpose and the had people hijack it.
Whose quote is this?
"coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success"
Who is Henry Ford
Who invented Kingsford?
Who was Henry Ford
What did Henry Ford first manufacture in the 1920's?
What is The Model T, Ford was an American Industrialist, who invented the Model T and other revolutionary cars. He also developed assembly line mode of production. He invented one of the largest companys in America, Ford.
What woman started the Woman's Christian Temperance Union?
Frances Willard was the women who started the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and was president with that. She also was the women who took a baseball bat through a bar and destoryed it.
Whose quote is this?
"They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money"
Who is Al Capone
Which era was the predecessor to the 1920s?
What was the Gilded Age
Who invented the band-aid?
Who is Earle Dickson, Earle Dickson's wife would often get cuts and bruises while working in the house, and Earle would often have to cut gauze and adhesive tape in order to dress her wounds. After this happened multiple times, day after day, Earl began to premake these gauze adhesive strips, by placing adhesive with squares of cotton at intervals along the strip. He showed his boss the invention and they were produced at Johnson and Johnson, the place where Earl worked. He was eventually awarded the position of Vice president.
What man promoted cigarettes for one of his ads?
Who is Edward Bernays. He was an advertising man and he promoted cigarettes for one of his ads but he would go home and if his wife had cigarettes he would snap them in half and flush them down the toilet. He was aware of the studies that cigarettes could cause cancer. He also advertised dixie cups and help get them to get more costumers by saying it was more sanitary.
Whose quote is this?
"One thing you do is blanket the entire nation with Coca-Cola advertising that basically has '5 cents' prominently featured,"
Who is Andrew Young
Which disease plagued the World War 1 era?
What was the Spanish Flu