My Winter Wish is "No more tests".
Unofficial bars where Americans found alcohol in the 1920's
What were speakeasies?
Speak softly and carry a big stick was the motto of this international policy.
What was Big Stick Diplomacy?
Women who fought for the right to vote.
Who were the Suffragettes?
The 18th Amendment
Which constitutional amendment banned alcohol?
These woman represented the new-found independence of American women in the 1920's.
Who were flappers?
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The Ohio Gang
Who were President Harding's cabinet/ advisors?
These prices fell sharply after World War I.
What are farm prices?
The type of diplomacy that is accompanied by economic investment
What is dollar diplomacy?
Warren G. Hardings campaign slogan
What is "A return to Normalcy"?
This gave the American women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Countries in which there was active fighting during the Spanish-American War
What are Cuba and the Philippines?
In the 1920's, to keep up with successful neighbors, American consumers purchased household items this way.
What is "buying on credit"?
An early 1900's term for sensationalist journalism.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This big "business" thrived because of prohibition.
What was organized crime?
Said that "The business of America is business".
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.
Who were newspaper publishers who promoted and profited from yellow journalism?
The two reasons silent movies succeeded in American cities.
What is they were inexpensive and the viewer didn't need to understand English to enjoy the movie?
Warren G. Harding's biggest scandal
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Scientific management methods and the assembly line helped Henry Ford and others perfect this business method.
What is Mass Production?
Fear of communism led to this specific paranoia after World War I.
What is the Red Scare?
This movement encouraged American's to give-up alcoholic beverages
What was the Temperance Movement?
Laissez Faire Economic Policy
What is an economic policy where the government should largely stay out of the economy?
This Congressional Act financed war debts and reparations by European countries after World War 1
What was the Dawes Plan?
Because World War 1 shattered American's faith in progress.
Why did Americans gravitate to heroes and celebreties like Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh?