Politics & Gov't
This president promised a “return to normalcy” after WWI.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This president had an opportunity to support farmers and subsidize agriculture in the 1920s, but instead chose to veto the two bills that passed through Congress and chose the Laissez Faire route and refusing to help the farmers because he believed that they had created the problem by going into debt therefore they should not be baled out.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This popular genre of music spread rapidly in the 1920s.
What is jazz?
This amendment established Prohibition in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This scandal involved oil reserves and government corruption during Harding’s presidency.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
These young women symbolized rebellion against traditional norms in the 1920s.
Who were flappers?
This practice allowed Americans to buy goods by paying over time.
What is buying on credit (installment plans)?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This famous gangster made millions during Prohibition through bootlegging.
Who was Al Capone?
These raids, led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, targeted suspected radicals and immigrants during the Red Scare.
What were the Palmer Raids?
This group resurged in the 1920s, targeting immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This persons tax policy reflected laissez-faire economics in the 1920s.
What are Mellon tax cuts?
This famous pilot became a national hero after flying solo across the Atlantic in 1927.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
This new technology helped spread advertising and entertainment to millions of homes.
What is the radio?
This secretary of the treasury promoted tax cuts for the wealthy in the 1920s.
Who was Andrew Mellon?
This trial debated the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?
This new white collar career became very popular in the 1920s as it attempted to increase consumerism and sell all of the new products of the 20s. Billboards were some of their greatest work.
What is marketing/advertising?
This jazz musician, nicknamed “Satchmo,” became one of the most influential figures in American music during the 1920s.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
This organization, expanded its role during the Red Scare by assisting Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in carrying out raids against suspected radicals, and was headed by J. Edgar Hoover.
What is the Bureau of Investigation or FBI?
This attorney general became a central figure of the First Red Scare by warning of communist threats and ordering mass arrests.
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
This violent event in Chicago in 1919, sparked by racial tensions and competition for jobs and housing, highlighted the growing struggles of African Americans in northern cities during the 1920s.
What was the Chicago Race Riot of 1919?
These government economic policies of the 1920s contributed to the Great Depression.
What are laissez-faire policies and weak banking regulations?
This baseball player became a national icon in the 1920s, hitting 60 home runs in a single season.
Who was Babe Ruth?
This law severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe in the 1920s.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?