Politics of the 1920s
Important Terms
Movements of the 1920s
Important People
Misc. 1920s Stuff
100
Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall's acceptance of large sums of money and valuable gifts in exchange for government oil reserves
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
100
Purchasing method that allowed people to pay a small amount of the price every month until an item was paid for
What is an installment plan?
100
A time of fear of Communists or radicals
What is the Red Scare?
100
A trumpet player known for his method of stepping out from the band to perform solo
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
Inventor and business leader from Detroit
Who is Henry Ford?
200
Agreement that outlawed war, signed by the United States and 14 other nations
What is the Kellogg Briand Pact?
200
Young women who challenged traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
Who are flappers?
200
An explosion in the popularity of jazz music in the 1920s
What is the Jazz Age?
200
A famous writer who produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life
Who is Langston Hughes?
200
In 1933 the government passed this law which ended prohibition
What is the 21st Amendment?
300
Secretary of Commerce who became president in 1928
Who is Herbert Hoover?
300
The belief in an exact word-for-word interpretation of the Bible
What is fundamentalism?
300
The period of African American artistic accomplishment in the 1920s
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
Wrote The Great Gatsby, which focused on what he saw as a loss of morality behind the fun and free-spirited times of the Jazz Age
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
This law limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the United States
What is the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
400
Senator from Ohio and Republican candidate for president
Who is Warren G. Harding?
400
People opposed to organized government
Who are anarchists?
400
A movement in which large numbers of African Americans began leaving the South to take jobs in northern factories
What is the Great Migration?
400
He encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture and become economically independent
Who is Marcus Garvey?
400
Idea that tax cuts for wealthy Americans would eventually help less well off Americans as well
What is the trickle down theory?
500
Massachusetts governor and Republican vice presidential candidate
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
500
People who leave their home country to live elsewhere
Who are expatriates?
500
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s
What is the Lost Generation?
500
The first American to receive the Nobel Prize award for literature
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
500
This organization was founded in 1920 to defend people's civil rights
What is the American Civil Liberties Union?
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