A Bustling Economy
What is the term given when consumers make a small down payment and pay the rest off in small monthly payments?
Installment Buying or Installment Spending
Installment buying
The majority of moonshine is made from what grain?
corn
what 1919 amendment enforced prohibition
The 18th amendment
What was the animal chosen to represent the prohibition party
Camel
President William Harding liked to do what in his spare time?
Cook and play pool
or Gamble and play instruments
Gamble and play instruments
What state arrested a biology teacher
Tennessee
The nickname for the 1920's
Roaring 20s
A period of rising stock prices is what kind of market?
A. Pony
B. Bull
C. Donkey
D. Fox
What is a bull market
What year did prohibition go into effect?
1920, 1930, 1940, 1950
1920
Prohibition banned what? (3)
Manufacture, transportation, sale of alcohol
The prohibition party was the first political party to do what?
permit woman as members
Why did President Harding leave office?
He had a heart attack
Who developed the theory of evolution?
Charles Darwin
How did assembly lines affect the price of the Model T?
decreased
What was the tallest building in the 1920's?
The Chrysler Building
A bar where illegal alcohol is sold
Speakeasy
Were dries supporters or opposers of a movement ?
Supporters
What color were speakeasies' door painted
Green
Who took over Presidency for Harding
A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
B. Taft
C. Coolidge
D. Theodore Roosevelt
Coolidge
Name two issues of the 1920's that still divide Americans today.
immigration & teaching evolution
What concept evolved from Henry Ford limiting workdays from Monday through Friday?
Weekend
What were the 2 most populous cities in the U.S during the 1920's
New York and Chicago
what health emergency can happen from drinking bad moonshine?
Blindness
What state was the Anti-Saloon League founded in
A. Illinois
B. Virginia
C. Ohio
D. Connecticut
Ohio
What did George Cassiday get arrested twice for?
Selling liquor to people in Congress during prohibition
What gang was made of greedy, small minded men?
Hint it's a state
The Ohio Gang
What did people refer to the Scopes trial as?
Monkey Trial
What 2 modes of transportation declined due to the popularity of cars?
railroads and trollies
Who tends to think more conservative, residents of the inner cities, or suburbs?
Suburbs
This process is a chemical reaction that breaks yeast down into sugar
Fermentation
What President opposed prohibition during his presidency?
A. Taft
B Cleveland
c. Wilson
Taft
When did the prohibition party form?
1899, 1869, 1909
1869
Albert Fall formed the _________ dome scandal
( I'm a little _______, short and stout)
Teapot
How was education viewed differently in urban areas versus rural areas?
Urbaj dwellers saw education as needed to advance while rural dwellers, especially farmers, viewed higher education as not important in their lives.
List 2 of the four states where oil discoveries were made which were needed to fuel cars?
California, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma
Where did the Whiskey Rebellion take place?
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Why is it illegal for people to make moonshine at home?
Businesses must have state permits to make alcohol and must pay taxes on their profits
Explain who were members of the temperance movement and why they were in favor of prohibition.
Women made up the temperance movement. Men during that time were drinking in excess and the women wanted it stopped so they pushed for prohibition
Who was James Vincenzo's famous brother and why did James change his name to hide that fact?
Al Capone was his brother. James was employed to enforce prohibition laws while his brother broke them.
Explain the tariff war.
What was fundamentalism which took root in rural America and what did it have to do with the Scopes Trial of 1925?
Fundamentalism believed following what was printed in the bible word for word which clashed with the idea of evolution which led to the teaching of it to be banned.
List 5 of the 11 mentioned industries that flourished due to the manufacturing of the Model T
gas, steel, glass, wood, insurance, road construction, advertising, rubber, asphalt, vacation, motel