What led to Prohibition
What is the 18th Amendment
What new technological device connected Americans and provided entertainment and information in a way that was not previously possible?
What is the radio
Famous bootlegger who got in trouble
Al Capone
The fear that communism would take over America, especially after the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia
What is the Red Scare
This style of music was brought to northern cities by southern African Americans
What is Jazz
What amendment gave American women the right to vote?
What is the 19th Amendment
The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers began to buy goods they could not normally afford and growing their personal debt by using this method
What is buying on credit / installment buying
The Scopes trial was about whether or not to teach this in schools.
What is evolution
This term refers to people who smuggled or otherwise transported illegal liquor in the United States
Who are bootleggers
These women rejected traditional values, wore skirts, and attended dance halls
Who are flappers
This is the name given to the movement of large numbers of African Americans from the South to the North in search of better economic opportunity and to escape discrimination.
What is the Great Migration
Hollywood became a major industry in the 1920s. Who was one of the early popular actors in the U.S.?
Who is Charlie Chaplin
Despite the prosperity, life remained hard for many of this group of people.
Who are farmers and factory workers
A desire to value native-born Americans more than foreigners or immigrants
What is Nativism
The first American baseball celebrity
Who is Babe Ruth
These were organized to root out groups whose activities posed a clear danger to the country and targeted communist groups
What are the Palmer Raids
This is what ford made more efficient and led to his success in the automobile industry.
What is the assembly line?
Name two groups of people that were targeted by the KKK in the 1920s.
What are African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and Catholics
This movement celebrated all things American while it attacked ideas (and people) it viewed as foreign and/or anti-American.
What is 100% Americanism
People used this term to describe the growth in music, dance, literature, theatre, and other forms of art in Harlem in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Under this, 15 nations agreed not to use the threat of war in their dealings with one another
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact
In order to convince people to buy their goods and services companies started using this tactic.
Many Americans believed these men were killed because they were immigrants with radical beliefs
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
An important innovation was the introduction of films with sound, another name for films with sound
What is "talkies"
This man flew from New York to Paris solo and in one flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh