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This baseball player became a household name in the 1920s, and to this day is still one of the most famous athletes of all time, who at one point held the home run record with 714.
Who is Babe Ruth?
The 29th President, Republican, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923, brought in a wave of laissez-faire policies for the decade.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
This man is known for pioneering the assembly line, which he used in his factories to build cars.
Who is Henry Ford?
This amendment established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in 1919?
What is the 18th Amendment?
This transformed the nation and the world, powering homes and factories, developed by Edison and Tesla, and allowed for a wave of inventions to be created and would power those inventions.
What is electricity?
These women exemplified the new sexually frank generation, who would wear riskier attire and dance in a risky style.
What are flappers?
The 30th President, Republican, serving from 1923 to 1929, was Vice President before becoming President, continued the laissez-faire policies and had the goal of minimizing the government's role in business.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This industry exploded onto the scene during this decade, in which it used persuasion ploy, seduction, and sexual suggestion to sell products. This saw the birth of Madison Ave becoming a famous location for this.
What is advertising?
This place was an illicit establishment that would illegally sell alcohol, or where people would gather to consume it.
What is a speakeasy?
This woman was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and would later attempt to fly around the entire world (but would go missing near the end of her journey?)
Who was Amelia Earhart?
This teacher was indicted for teaching evolution in his classroom in the state of Tennessee. His trial was watched all over the country, and represented the battle between fundamentalists vs modernalists
Who was John T. Scopes?
This is a political/economic policy or attitude in which the government does not interfere and lets things "take their own course."
What is laissez-faire?
This economic theory, practiced by the Presidents of the decade, suggests that by easing regulations and cutting taxes at the top (businessmen, etc), those benefits will find their way down to the working class as well.
What is trickle-down economics?
This man, who was Attorney General, famously led raids to round up suspects who were thought to be "un-American and Socialistic," and helped increase the "Red Scare."
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
List three household appliances that were invented and became mainstream during this era?
Answers will vary but may include: radio, washer, ice box, vacuum cleaner, televisions, toasters, etc
This writer belonged to the Lost Generation of Writers, and famously wrote "The Great Gatsby."
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
What is Teapot Dome?
This kind of buying stocks was usually only used by poor and middle class people, in which they would buy the stock, but only pay for part of it and borrow money from the stockbrokers to pay the rest.
What is buying on margin?
Two Italian-American immigrants, whose famous court case saw them convicted of murdering a Massachusetts paymaster. They were labeled (potentially wrongfully) as Radicals during a wave of increased xenophobia.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
This man was the first human to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This African-American man was a political activist, the first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, and famous for his "Back to Africa" Movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This was an attempt to pay off the damages of WWI, in which the U.S. would lend money to Germany who then paid France and Britain for debts of the war.
What is the Dawes Plan?
This bill was favored by agricultural states, pushing to keep high prices on agricultural products by authorizing the government to purchase agricultural surpluses and selling them.
What is the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill?
This is the official name of the act that implemented the prohibition amendment, establishing illegal alcohol at above 5%.
What is the Volstead Act?
This radio network, located in Pittsburgh, PA, is famous for one of the first broadcasts in radio history, in which announced the Presidential returns of the 1920 election.
What is KDKA?