1920s Culture
Politics
The Great Depression
Imperialism and WWI
Random People
100
This figure revolutionized the manufacturing industry in the U.S. by popularizing the use of the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
100

These were the 3 Republican presidents during the 1920s.

Who are Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover?

100
The nickname for the Thursday and following Tuesday where the Stock Market crashed in 1929. 

What is "Black Tuesday and Thursday".

100
This war allowed the U.S. to gain control of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish American War?
100

Author of "The Great Gatsby" as a criticism of 1920s culture. Peak Lost Generation behavior. 

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

200
The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 20's can be explained by the reemergence of this xenophobic belief.
What is nativism?
200
This case arose to deal with the controversy over teaching evolution in schools?
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
200
This was the sarcastic nickname given to shantytowns that emerged after the Stock Market Crash in 1929.
What are Hoovervilles?
200
These two reasons led the U.S. into declaring war on Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram and unrestricted submarine warfare?
200

Jazz Musician best known for his prominence in the Harlem Renaissance and for making "What a Wonderful World"

Who is Louis Armstrong?

300
This was the name of the movement of southern African Americans to the North during WWI and the years following.
What is the Great Migration?
300

This was a staple in nearly every U.S. home by the end of the 1920s, contributing to the standardization of U.S. entertainment and news, more people were informed and involved politically. 

What is the radio?

300

This happens in Gym class and when everybody tries to pull their money out of a bank at once, creating a panic. 

What is a Bank Run?

300
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism

What are the MAIN causes of WWI?

300
Poet who championed the Harlem Renaissance. Wrote such works as "Not Without Laughter"
Who is Langston Hughes?
400

Cutting their hair short into bobs, smoking and dancing in public, being more free and liberated. This women's subculture in the 1920's shares a name with the 2013 app that took the world by craze moving a bird through pipes. 

Flappers (flappy bird)

400
This scandal involved the Department of the Interior's corrupt leasing of public oil fields and stained the Harding administration.
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
400

This cause many people to immigrate west, caused by overproduction and soil degradation. Where the nickname "Okies" comes from. 

What is the Dust Bowl?

400
This was Wilsons original plan to end the war, was unpopular slogan with the American people.

What is "peace without victory"

400
This was the name of the tariff (named after people in Congress who passed it into law) that helped ruin the Economy and kickstart the Great Depression. 

What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

500

The first "talkie", a movie that had actual sound and was not silent. 

What is The Jazz Singer?

500
Explain Woodrow Wilson's 14 points and why the Senate refused to ratify the treaty of Versailles. 

Wilson's Fourteen Points primarily supported the idea of lasting peace. Many of the points focused on: trade equality, ending of secrete treaties, and alliances, freedom of the seas, and the establishment of the League of Nations.

500
This was President Hoover's (and most Americans) philosophy that advocated personal responsibility for one's situation.
What is rugged individualism?
500

This was the case involving the first amendment and the Espionage act, a trial that established limits on free speech during war time. 

What is Schenk vs US?

500
Politician who opposed Woodrow Wilson and was friends with Teddy Roosevelt. Led attacks on Wilson's peace plan.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
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