Presidents & Politics
Both Harding and Coolidge encouraged other nations to _______.
destroy their weapons
Jazz started among _______ musicians.
African American
The _______ allowed cars to be made quickly and cheaply.
assembly line
Immigrants were kept out of the United States by the _________________________
Emergency Quota Act
Someone who believes in a government with no private
Communist
Warren Harding promised Americans a return to _________________________.
normalcy
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and Edith Wharton were _______ of the 1920s.
writers
Time when businesses failed and people lost their jobs
Great Depression
It took more than 50 years for women to win _________________________.
suffrage
Someone who believes there should be no government at all
Anarchist
Presidents Harding and Coolidge wanted to keep government out of _________________________.
business
_______ was a symbol of American confidence in the 1920s.
Charles Lindbergh's flight
Time spent not working is known as _____.
leisure time
Ban on making and selling alcohol
Prohibition
The _________________________ tried to end warfare, but it was not effective.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The _________________________ happened because the government was afraid of Communists.
Palmer Raids
Great writer of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Americans probably learned more about world events after _________________________ became popular.
radios
Place where illegal liquor was sold
speakeasy
Great jazz composer
Duke Ellington
Why did the stock market crash?
The price of many stocks was higher than their true value. On October 29, 1929, prices dropped sharply. People wanted to sell their stocks, but there were no buyers.
Community outside of a city
suburb
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
It was the period from the 1920s to the mid 1930s when the African Americans in Harlem produced many creative works.