Lesson 1: Boom Times
A system that used conveyer belts to move parts from one group of workers to another to make mass production faster.
What was the moving assembly line?
Young women that cut their hair short and wore makeup, and wore short dresses.
What were flappers?
an explosion in the popularity of jazz music
What is the Jazz Age?
The Republican nominee for president in the election of 1920 that won the election.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
The Twenty-First Amendment ended prohibition, but laws such as the National Minumum Drinking Age Act of 1984 regulate drinking
True
The first reliable and affordable car nicknamed the Tin Lizzie.
What was the Model T?
A time of fear of Communists.
What was the Red Scare?
Motion pictures with sound.
What were talkies?
A women that was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the Southwest.
Who was Georgia O'Keeffe?
Ford starting using a moving assembly line that slowed down production speeds.
False. It speed up production speeds.
The agreement signed by the United States and 14 other nations that outlawed war. 62 other nations eventually accepted the pact.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
When African Americans traveled from the South to the North for job opportunities in factories.
What was the Great Migration?
writers who criticized American society in the 1920s
What is the Lost Generation?
The Democratic opponent against Herbert Hoover in the presidental election of 1928.
Who was Al Smith?
Many members of the Lost Generation moved to London in the 1920s.
False. They moved to Paris.
A scandal where the Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies.
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
The trial of a high school teacher that was teaching evolution and was put on trial for it.
What was the Scopes trial?
this allowed people all over the country to listen to the same programs
What are national radio networks?
An important Harlem Renaissance writer that produced poems, plays, and novels about African American slang and jazz rhythums.
Who was Langston Hughes?
Following the war, majority groups organized to demand their civil rights
False
when corrected: Following the war, minority groups organized to demand their civil rights
This is what happened to the price of Motor Vehicles from 1908 to 1924.
What was decreasing?
The news outlet that heavily praised Marcus Garvey's work as a very controversal and famous black leader.
What was the New York Amsterdam News?
the first talkie
What is The Jazz Singer?
The first African American women to obtain her international pilot's license.
Who was Bessie Coleman?
Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from New York to Paris.
True.