20s Politics
Industry
The Boom
20s Culture
The Bust
100
The national law lead to organized crime groups and smuggling in the 1920s.
What is the 18th amendment or Prohibition?
100
The industry most responsible for the boom of the 1920s.
What is the auto industry?
100
This growing field linked the possession of material goods to the fulfillment of spiritual and emotional needs.
What is the advertising field?
100
Knickname of the "roaring 20s" based on the music popular in many clubs, shows, and bars.
What is "the Jazz Age."
100
The nickname given October 29, 1929.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
200

The major national law campaign of the NAACP in the 1920s beside a civil rights law.


What is an anti-lynching law?
200
U.S. production output rose by this percentage in the 1920s.
What is 32%.
200
The lessening of a European market for U.S. goods was not so much an issue in the 1920s due to this factor.
What is a large internal domestic market?
200
Stereotype of the New Woman of the 1920s, originally based on the fad of her wearing unbuckled galoshes and more known for short dresses, strings of beads, and a partying spirit.
What is a flapper?
200
This policy was meant to help American manufacturing businesses, but also meant it was harder for U.S. products to be exported abroad, since many countries retaliated with their own version.
What is a high tariff?
300

These are two reasons for the poor economic conditions of farmers in the 20s.

What are lack of the large market created by WWI, overproduction of crops=low prices, new farm productivity (motorized tractors....), lack of price support or federal assistance, large debt of farmers -- any two of these options.

300
This term means that your factory or industry must hire union employees.
What is a closed shop?
300
This economic indicator is an estimate of total money value of all goods and services produced by a country in one year. It really grew from 1924-1929.
What is GNP?
300
This practice meant the smuggling of illegal alcohol and this gangster was the number one Chicago smuggler.
What is bootlegging and who is Al Capone?
300
This term refers to purchasing stocks "on credit."
What is "buying on the margin?"
400
The three Republican presidents of the 20s and the one whose administration was racked by scandal.
Who are Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Harding's administration was racked by scandal, most notably the Teapot Dome Scandal.
400
Women in the 1920s were taking more and more of these types of jobs?
What are secretarial or office work jobs? What are "pink-collar" jobs?
400
Four new major U.S. businesses of the 1920s that focused on "leisure time" activities.
What are professional sports, camping hotels (motels), camping, golf, tennis, car trips, national park visitations, going to the motion picture shows....
400
This term is given to the mass exodus of African-Americans from the South to northern cities in the 1910s and 1920s. This neighborhood in New York City came to embody the flourishing of African-American culture during this time.
What is the Great Migration and what is Harlem?
400
This term is given to governmental policies, such as those of Harding and Coolidge, that do not regulate business practices and is based on an overriding belief that markets correct themselves without financial oversight.
What are "laissez-faire" policies?
500
The major foreign policy initiative of the Harding administration meant to lessen militarism, especially among powerful nations.

What is the Five-Powers Naval Treaty?  (Signed by the U.S., Britain, France, Italy, and Japan.)

-No new warships for 10 years.

500
Five examples of "spin-off" jobs and industries from the automotive industry.
What are gas stations, motels, roadside cafes and hamburger stands, tire manufacturers, auto insurance, ....
500
The stigma of this economic activity was removed in the 1920s. This is how many people were able to own a car or a home.
What is the installment plan or buying on credit.
500

This legislation limited immigration to 2% of the 1890 census, reducing the number of immigrants each year and favoring immigrants from Western Europe.

What is the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act) which set up the quota system?

500

Herbert Hoover's initial response to the depression in 1929.

First, it was a call for patience and waiting for the business cycle to adjust the market. It was followed by a voluntary recovery plan and some aid to farmers (purchasing surplus product, etc.).  It was later followed by huge public works projects, aid to certain industries, and some aid to states.

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