Boom Times and Business
Due to increased production and affordability, this car was the most popular in America during the 1920s.
What is the Model-T?
The new movies featuring sound that replaced silent films in the 1920s.
What are the talkies?
This agreement signed by 62 countries called for an international outlawing of warfare yet held no actual power to enforce it.
What is the Kellog-Briand Pact?
The era in which alcohol is banned by the 18th Amendment.
What is prohibition?
I played major league baseball for the Yankees and Red Sox in the 1920s, and became the most famous hitter/pitcher of the game.
Who is Babe Ruth?
The production method attributed to Henry Ford that allowed products to be made quicker. Instead of training someone how to make a whole car, you could just train them how to put the steering column in. And then train someone else to put the tires on. Etc.
What is the moving assembly line?
This type of music swept the US in the 1920s and was made up of an upbeat rhythm, rebellious attitude, and lively solos.
What is jazz?
The growing fear that Communism would spread through the US, leading to false allegations and a "witch hunt".
What is the Red Scare?
The trial in which a school teacher was arrested and charged for teaching his students about evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
I played a Trumpet and inspired a whole new era of jazz music.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Due to expensive products, but an increase in pocket change, Americans in the 1920s were more willing to buy expensive products using monthly payments.
Seeking better jobs in Northern cities, and to escape the Jim Crow laws of the south, this event led to the spreading of African American culture all over the country leading to things like the popularity of jazz and the Harlem Renaissance.
What is the Great Migration?
The police raids ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, following a suspected Communist attack on his life, to arrest and deport Americans believed to be radical Communists.
What are the Palmer Raids?
The illegal act of trafficking (moving and selling) alcohol during prohibition.
What is bootlegging?
I was a notorious gangster who made millions in my massive bootlegging ring.
Who is Al "Scarface" Capone?
This event harmed other countries but boosted US production to a new high. During the event, factories were busier than ever before and, when the event ended, American industry used that momentum to carry it into a new market for electronics, luxury items, cars, etc.
What was the First World War?
The event in which the Secretary of the Interior was accused of corruption for dispersing government oil reserves to private companies in exchange for bribes.
This law limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe during the Red Scare.
What is the National Quota Act of 1924?
These women cut their hair short, wore short dresses, smoked/drank in public, and rebelled against gender norms of the time.
What are flappers?
I was the first African American woman pilot
Who is Bessie Coleman?
How did the US benefit from its involvement in WW1?
Boosted production to fuel the war effort, and then that momentum carried industry into peacetime markets like cars, electronics, and luxury items.
Describe the night life of the 1920s (A) and explain the technological (B) and social(C) reasons behind it.
A: Speakeasies, night clubs, dancing, jazz, alcohol, flapper parties, etc.
B: Widespread use of electric lighting, radios, phonograph record players, etc.
C: Young people after WW1 wanted fun and freedom, women gain more independence, the Great Migration, urbanization, prohibition made things more exciting
Describe in detail why organized crime rose in the 1920s.
Prohibition made alcohol illegal yet people of all social classes still wanted it. New fast cars and busy speakeasies made it possible for criminals to make lots of money buy selling illegal alcohol.
Fundamentalists believe that the bible should be taken word-for-word literally and deny the new sciences of the age. Modernists will believe that science and religion can coexist if the bible is not taken literally.
Between WW1 and the Great Depression, we had three presidents. List them in order and tell me one thing about them.
Warren G Harding - promised to "return to normalcy" in the wake of WW1, super corrupt, died two years into presidency
Calvin Coolidge - Harding's VP who fired corrupt officials and attempted to restore Americans' trust in the Presidency
Herbert Hoover - Allowed the Great Depression to happen through inaction