Changing Economy
True or False: The distribution of wealth between the urban and rural populations was pretty evenly distributed.
False (Rural areas much poorer than the urban populations)
True or False: Presidents Harding AND Coolidge reduced regulations on big businesses.
True
The mass moving of African Americans from the South to the North and/or urban areas is called __________.
The Great Migration
This celebrity was the most famous silent film actor during the 1920s.
Charlie Chaplin
This term is a nickname for crime lords who made and sold alcohol illegally during prohibition.
Bootleggers
This man, with his creation of the Model T, changed the workplace, roadways, and American way of life.
Henry Ford
Which amendment banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol?
18th Amendment
The race-motivated burning and killing of residents of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, OK is called the ________________.
Tulsa Race Riots (Massacre)
This "home run king" is one of the most famous baseball players of all time. (He also has a candy bar named after him!)
Babe Ruth
This term is for the flood of new, affordable goods made and sold after WWI.
Consumer Revolution
A period of rising stock prices is called a ___________.
Bull Market
Thousands of immigrants and radicals were arrested and deported, most without being charged with a crime in what is called the ___________.
Palmer Raids
The __________ is a period in which African American novelists, poets, and artists celebrated their culture.
Harlem Renaissance
This celebrity was a trumpet-playing jazz musician who was the unofficial ambassador of jazz music.
Louis Armstrong
This term means the strict belief in the Bible and Christianity.
Fundamentalism
When buyers make a small down payment on a product and pay the rest in small amounts monthly, that is called _______________.
Installment Buying
This plan allowed the U.S to give loans to Germany to help them pay off the war reparations from WWI.
The Dawes Plan
This man organized the "Back to Africa" movement that urged black unity and the separation of the races.
Marcus Garvey
This celebrity was a jazz singer who earned the nickname "Empress of Blues".
Bessie Smith
This was the movement where, due to the strong fear of communism, immigration was limited and immigrants were targeted.
The Red Scare
What happens when a stock price rises with buying on margin? What happens when it falls?
Rises = buyer can pay off broker and make a profit.
Falls = buyer owes full price to the broker.
This scandal during the Harding Administration was due to Albert Fall taking bribes to transfer the oil reserves to private oil companies.
Teapot Dome Scandal
This period of violence occurred due to racial tension after WWI and was started by white supremacists/terrorists, who started race riots in 26 cities.
This celebrity was the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927.
Charles Lindbergh
This was the trial of a teacher who taught the theory of evolution in Tennessee and was arrested.
Scopes Trial