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100
The idea of keeping to one's self, not wanting to get caught up in the affairs of other countries.
What is isolationism?
100
This U.S. President ran on the slogan, "Return to Normalcy."
Who is Warren Harding?
100
He is considered one of the great baseball players from the 1920s and perhaps all-time.
Who is Babe Ruth?
100
She is considered one of the first successful female, African American authors.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
100
This was a Tennessee court case that pitted the Bible agains science.
What is the Scopes Trial?
200
The first communist country in the world.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
200
This President had a laissez-faire attitude toward government.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
200
He was a famous 1920s boxer.
Who is Jack Dempsey?
200
This Harlem Renaissance poet expressed a new mood of determination to overcome racial prejudice.
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
1920s movement of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North.
What is the Great Migration?
300
Idea that American born citizens should receive better treatment than immigrants.
What is Nativism?
300
The scandal that left Harding's presidential legacy in turmoil.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
300
He was the most famous Chicago gangster ever known. He controlled the city during Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
300
Department of the Treasury special agent who caught Al Capone for tax evasion.
Who is Elliot Ness?
300
This was the awakening of African American culture in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
The fear about communism that swept across America during the 1920s and 1950s.
What is Red Scare?
400
This President supported rugged individualism.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
American athlete who was the first to swim across the English Channel.
Who is Gertrude Ederle?
400
He was a famous 1920s Jazz trumpet player from New Orleans.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
400
This court case allowed segregation.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
Federal organization created to catch communist, anarchist.
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
500
This U.S. President promised to solve the poverty problem, yet during his tenure, there was a huge increase in impoverished people in the U.S.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
500
Italian Immigrants who were unfairly tried and executed for a robbery/murder because they were anarchists.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
500
Political activist who started the "Back to Africa Movement".
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
These are two nicknames for the 1920s.
What is the Roaring 20s and the Jazz Age?
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