Culture and Society
What was the name given to the young, unconventional woman of the 1920s who bobbed her hair and wore shorter skirts?
Flapper
The period from 1920 to 1933 during which the sale and manufacture of alcohol was illegal.
Prohibition
What mass-production technique pioneered by Henry Ford drastically lowered the cost of the automobile?
The Assembly Line
Baseball's biggest star whose home runs made him a national celebrity.
Babe Ruth
The trial that debated the teaching of evolution in public schools.
The Scopes Trial
This new form of music, characterized by improvisation and syncopated rhythms, became the soundtrack of the decade.
Jazz
What amendment to the Constitution granted women the right to vote in 1920?
19th Amendment
This buying method allowed consumers to purchase goods like refrigerators and cars and pay for them over time.
Installment Buying
The most famous gangster who profited heavily from bootlegging alcohol in Chicago
Al Capone
This group, which saw a major revival in the 1920s, promoted nativism, anti-Catholicism, and white supremacy.
KKK
What were the illegal, secret bars that served alcohol during Prohibition called?
Speakeasies
President Harding's political slogan, which promised a return to simpler pre-war life.
Return to Normalcy
The rapid and widespread ownership of this invention (a main driver of the economy) led to the growth of suburbs and new road systems
Automobile/ Model T Ford
Pioneering aviator who completed the first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927.
Charles Lindbergh
The fear and prejudice against foreign-born people; a major theme in the decade's politics.
Nativism
This movement of African American literary, artistic, and musical expression was centered in a famous New York neighborhood.
The Harlem Renaissance
This widespread fear of a communist takeover in the U.S. led to the Palmer Raids and increased nativism.
The Red Scare
The unregulated purchase of stocks with a small down payment, which fueled the "Bull Market" but caused instability.
Buying on Margin
African American leader who promoted black nationalism, a "Back to Africa" movement, and founded the UNIA.
Marcus Gravey
What was the key difference between Fundamentalism and Modernism in the 1920s cultural wars?
Fundamentalism: Literal interpretation of the Bible; Modernism: Embracing scientific and secular values.
What classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the extravagance and underlying moral decay of the Jazz Age?
The Great Gatsby
What major scandal involved President Harding's officials illegally leasing government oil reserves for bribes?
The Teapot Dome Scandal
What was the major economic event in October 1929 that signaled the end of the Roaring Twenties and the start of a depression?
The Stock Market Crash
Poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance best known for poems like "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Langston Hughes
The Quota System laws of the 1920s were designed to severely restrict immigration from which two regions of the world?
Southern and Eastern Europe (and Asia