Important People
These two men contributed to the culture of the 1920's by using jazz music to reach people of all statuses and colors.
Louis Armstrong and Langston Hughes
Inspired by Dixieland music and ragtime.
What is Jazz?
The most famous bootlegger during the Prohibition era.
Who is Al Capone?
The hatred of immigrants and and a deep sense of pride for native-borns.
What is nativism?
The man who created the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
A female pilot who died attempting to be the first pilot to fly around the world
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The movement of African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West. African American populations doubled in many major cities as a result.
What is the Great Migration?
These women represented the new attitudes and roles of women by the way they dressed and where they hung out.
Who are Flappers?
Factors that led to the resurgence of nativism in the 1920's.
What are a rise in immigration, economic recession, and a rise in racial and cultural tensions?
The group of friends President Harding hired for high ranking government position
What is the Ohio gang?
The world heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926
Who is Jack Dempsey
Beginning in the 1920’s this movement enhanced African American arts by stimulating artistic development, racial pride, building a sense of community, & political organizations within the African American culture.
This amendment banned the manufacturing, sale, and distribution of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The trial of these men prompted Americans to strengthen their stance on nativism and race relations.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
Factors that led to the growing economic crisis in farming in the 1920’s.
What are raised tariffs on foreign competition and advances in fertilizers and machinery?
This author was most closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance during the 20's.
Langston Hughes
This civil rights organization fought against African American segregation and lynchings.
What is the NAACP?
The amendment that repealed prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
The theory and practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population.
What is Eugenics?
The assembly line created the ability for this, which lowered costs and increased sales.
What is mass production?
This man created headway in the aviation industry by completing the first solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight
Charles Lindbergh
The first African American elected to Congress from a northern state
Who is Oscar Depreist?
Teaching evolution caused for the trial of ______ where he was later fined $100.
Who is John T. Scopes?
Limit the amount of immigrants that could be admitted to the U.S. in a year.
What is the Emergency Quota Act and the National Origins Act of 1924?
President Harding’s Secretary of the Interior,________, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves, causing the ________ scandal.
Who is Albert B. Fall and what is the Teapot Dome Scandal?