Jazz Age
What was a motion picture with sound called?
Talkie
What was the time called when people feared communists or Reds?
The Red Scare
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
When Secretary of the Interior Albert Falls accepted bribes from private oil companies.
Who is the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
What were women who cut their hair short, wore makeup, short dresses, and openly challenged traditional ideas of how women are expected to behave called?
flappers
Who was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop?
Charles Lindbergh
This ended prohibition.
21 Amedndment.
An agreement that many countries entered into that outlawed war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
What war occurred right before the 1920s began?
World War I
A period of African American artist accomplishment.
Harlem Renaissance
What was an illegal bar that sold alcohol called?
Speakeasy
This banned the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
How did the automobile industry help the economy?
creating jobs; gas stations, auto repair shops, city pavers, etc.
More people working more people are spending.
How did women gain the right to vote?
19th Amendment
The nickname for the Model T was the _____________.
Tin Lizzie
What is the Great Migration?
When many African American's moved north for better opportunities.
What is the belief in a literal, or word for word, interpretation of the Bible?
fundamentalism
What is the return to normalcy?
Stability and Prosperity
What was it called when government agents arrested thousands of suspected radicals, often without evidence?
Palmer Raids
The explosion in the popularity of jazz music is known as the _____________________.
Jazz Age
What were writers that criticized American society in the 1920s were called?
Lost Generation
What is the Scopes trial?
When a high school teacher named John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution.
What is it called when you pay in installments?
Installment Plan
He encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture and argued that black people should establish economic independence by building their own businesses and communities.
Marcus Garvey
She was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and the Southwest.
Georgia O'Keeffe