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A system in which each worker does a different job in putting together a product.
What is an assembly line?
This kind of music was created by African Americans, became the most popular music of the 1920's.
What was Jazz?
He was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
He was elected president in 1920.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
This was the name given to the movement of more than two million African Americans from the South to the North.
What was the "Great Migration?"
The payment of money over time toward the total cost of an item.
What is an installment plan?
This mass media communicated music, stories, news and sporting events across the country.
What was radio?
He hit a record 60 home runs.
Who was Babe Ruth?
After Harding died, he became President.
Who was Calvin Coolidge
This terrorist group started after Reconstruction featured men wearing hoods.
What was the Ku Klux Klan (or KKK)?
A sharp increase in the price of goods.
What is inflation?
At first these had no sound, but they did have background music and were very popular.
What were movies?
She was a well known blues singer.
Who was Bessie Smith?
She was elected governor of Wyoming.
Who was Nellie Tayloe Ross?
He manufactured the "Model T" car also known as the "Tin Lizzie."
Who was Henry Ford?
To force a person who is not a citizen to leave the country.
What is to deport?
These publications, included "Time" which featured news and "The Saturday Evening Post," which featured stories.
What were magazines?
He was college football's outstanding player.
Who was Red Grange?
She was elected governor of Texas.
Who was Miriam A. Ferguson?
This Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote in all elections.
What was the 19th Amendment?
Communications that reach large numbers of people.
What is mass media?
These activities became so popular, that many participants, such as Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey, became famous heroes.
What were sports?
He wrote stories about people looking for wealth and success.
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This scandal, during the Harding Administration, involved bribe taking from oil companies.
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
This law limited the number of immigrants who could come into the United States.
What was the Immigration Law of 1921?