Boom & Bust
This significant demographic shift occurred in the 1920s.
What is that, for the first time more Americans lived in urban centers than rural areas?
One device brought news and entertainment into homes by radio waves.
What is the radio?
This Amendment prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol nationwide.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This blossoming of African‑American literature, art, and music took place in 1920s New York.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
An economic system in which private individuals own and operate businesses for profit.
What is capitalism?
On October 29, 1929, this dramatic economic event took place.
What is the stock market crash?
He pioneered mass‑production methods that drove down automobile prices.
Who is Henry Ford?
During Prohibition, an illicit bar where you could buy a drink was known by this slang name.
What is a speakeasy?
The 1925 trial debating whether evolution could be taught in schools was nicknamed this.
What is the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?
A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.
What is a conspiracy?
By 1927, this percentage of household goods were being bought on credit.
What is 75 percent?
In 1927, he became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Passed in WW I, this act made it a crime to speak or publish against the U.S. government.
What is the Sedition Act?
This secret organization saw a resurgence in the 1920s, promoting white‑supremacist views.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Deliberate destruction or obstruction of equipment, machinery, or processes.
What is sabotage?
He was inaugurated president in 1929 promising “blue skies” ahead.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This invention was called the most important of the 1920s, fundamentally changing daily life and travel.
What is the automobile?
This process allows citizens to propose or repeal laws by popular vote.
What is a referendum?
This ideology calls for communal ownership of property and elimination of class distinctions.
What is communism?
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The right or privilege to vote in public elections.
What is suffrage?
This social group experienced significant new freedoms in the 1920s.
Who are women?
William ______ founded this company, which grew into Washington’s largest industry making this vehicle.
What is Boeing (airplanes)?
This term refers to publishing false statements that damage someone’s reputation in writing.
What is libel?
In 1933, this Amendment formally ended Prohibition by repealing the 18th.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Written defamation—publishing false statements that harm someone’s reputation.
What is libel?