Politics/Economy
This Republican President won the 1920 election by a landslide after promising a "Return to Normalcy."
Warren G. Harding
This amendment, ratified in 1919, banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol.
18th Amendment
This 1920 amendment finally granted American women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This was the movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities like NYC and Chicago.
The Great Migration
This term describes people buying stocks in hopes of a quick profit while ignoring the actual value of the companies.
Speculation
Henry Ford used this manufacturing process to reduce the time it took to build a car from 12 hours to just 90 minutes.
The Moving Assembly Line
These illegal, underground bars flourished in cities during the Prohibition era.
Speakeasies
These women of the 1920s broke social norms by cutting their hair into bobs, wearing short skirts, and smoking in public.
Flappers
This famous poet and writer of the Harlem Renaissance celebrated Black heritage and resisted prejudice through literature.
Langston Hughes
This risky practice involved investors borrowing money to buy stocks they could not afford.
Buying on Margin
This "buy now, pay later" system allowed Americans to purchase expensive goods on credit for the first time.
The Installment Plan
This 1925 trial highlighted the divide between urban science and rural religion regarding the teaching of evolution
The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Released in 1927, this was the first "talkie" (movie with sound), effectively ending the silent film era
The Jazz Singer
Alain Locke coined this term to represent a new sense of pride, dignity, and resistance to segregation
"The New Negro"
This economic cause of the crash occurred when factories produced more goods than people could afford to buy.
Overproduction
This major corruption scandal involved illegal leasing of government oil reserves by a member of Harding’s cabinet.
Teapot Dome Scandal
These two Italian immigrants were executed in 1927, despite many believing they were convicted for their beliefs rather than evidence.
Sacco & Vanzetti
By 1930, 40% of households owned this device, which helped create a shared national culture
The Radio
According to the sources, what was the primary legacy of the Harlem Renaissance?
It brought African American culture to a mainstream audience for the first time.
On this day, October 29, 1929, the stock market collapsed, marking the start of the Great Depression
Black Tuesday
To protect American industry, the U.S. passed this act in 1922, which placed high __________ on imported goods.
tariffs
This attorney defended John Scopes and represented the "Modernist" side of the cultural divide.
Clarence Darrow
Name the two legendary musicians mentioned in the sources who became household names during the Jazz Age
Louis Armstrong/Duke Ellington
This Harlem Renaissance author is noted for writing works that celebrated Black culture alongside Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
In the first two days of the market collapse, how much did the stock market lose?
30 Billion Dollars