VOCABULARY
People of the 20s
Events & Timeline
Culture & Society
Politics & Conflict
Economy & Business
100

Mass movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities

What is the Great Migration?

100

Baseball legend who symbolized the rise of sports culture

Who is Babe Ruth?

100

Amendment that gave women the right to vote in 1920

What is the 19th Amendment?

100

Cultural movement centered in Harlem celebrating Black art and music

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

100

Fear of immigrants and foreigners during the 1920s

What is nativism?

100

Buying goods over time instead of paying all at once

What is installment buying?

200

Secret clubs where alcohol was illegally sold during the 1920s

What is a speakeasy?

200

First person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Who is Charles Lindbergh?

200

Scandal involving government corruption during Harding’s presidency

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

200

Young women who challenged traditional behavior with new fashion and attitudes

What are flappers?

200

Law that limited immigration using quotas based on nationality

What is the National Origins Act?

200

Term for the push to buy more goods in the 1920s

What is consumerism?

300

Fear of communism that led to raids and arrests in 1920

What is the Red Scare?

300

Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote “I, Too”

Who is Langston Hughes?

300

First movie with sound released in the 1920s

What is The Jazz Singer?

300

Type of music that defined the 1920s and became extremely popular

What is jazz?

300

Why Sacco and Vanzetti were controversial

What is they were seen as unfairly convicted due to anti-immigrant bias?

300

One benefit of buying on credit

What is being able to afford expensive goods?

400

Trial about teaching evolution in schools in Tennessee

What is the Scopes Trial?

400

Civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

400

Stock market crash event that helped start the Great Depression

What is Black Tuesday?

400

Why African Americans moved North during the Great Migration

What is to escape racism and find jobs?

400

Bryan’s argument in the Scopes Trial

What is schools should teach religion/morality instead of evolution?

400

One drawback of buying on credit

What is debt/interest payments?

500

Immigration policy that limited how many people could enter the U.S.

What is the quota system?

500

President who promoted “Return to Normalcy”

Who is Warren G. Harding?

500

Agreement where countries promised not to go to war

What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

500

Message of Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too”

What is equality and hope for inclusion in American society?

500

U.S. foreign policy approach after WWI

What is isolationism?

500

Why mass production increased during the 1920s

What is demand for consumer goods?

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