Prosperity
Civil Unrest
Prohibition
People
True/False
100
This was the single most important factor behind 1920s prosperity.
What is the automobile?
100
This is segregation based by law
What is de jure?
100
These people smuggled alcohol during the 1920s.
Who are bootleggers?
100
This person wrote the Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
100
Waterskiing was invented in the 1920s.
What is True?
200
This idea lets you put down a small payment and pay monthly installments plus interest.
What is credit?
200
This is segregation based off of customs.
What is de facto?
200
Places to buy homemade alcohol during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
200
He became famous for flying across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
200
True or False: America was heavily involved in global affairs in the 1920s?
What is False?
300
Economic and political system where government controls all property and redistributes wealth.
What is Communism?
300
This was the term used to describe the execution of someone for breaking race laws/customs.
What is lynching?
300
This was the year Prohibition ended?
When was 1933?
300
This person was the first person in charge of the FBI.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
300
In the Untouchables, were most of the police, city officials, and judges on Al Capone's payroll?
What is True?
400
This technology helped bring major league baseball into people's homes.
What is the radio?
400
This was a popular white supremacist group during the 1920s
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
This Amendment brought Prohibition into law.
What is the 18th Amendment?
400
He was one of the first famous American tennis stars.
Who is William "Big Bill" Tilden?
400
William Jennings Bryan was the prosecuting attorney for the Scopes Trial.
What is True?
500
This was a section of New York City known for making new American music.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
500
This was William Johnson's famous painting.
What is Chain Gang?
500
What Amendment repealed Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
500
This person was a famous American female tennis player who won the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament.
Who is Helen Wills?
500
True or False: The plane Charles Lindbergh flew in was named the Spirit of St. Charles.
What is False, Spirit of Saint Louis?
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