Social
A musical style created by African American musicians in New Orleans
jazz
“Satchmo” was the nickname of popular trumpet player
Louis Armstrong
Buying on credit
installment buying
Despite the eighteenth amendment, every large town had its ______ or illegal taverns that served liquor
speakeasies
John Scopes was convicted of teaching ______ to high school students
evolution
Write of jazz-like poems
Lanston Hughes
The Roaring Twenties is sometimes also referred to as the
American industry recovered after WWI by switching from producing military goods to producing
customer goods
Liquor smugglers known as ____ imported illegal alcohol
bootleggers
Republican who became President in 1923
Calvin Coolidge
Novelist who created the concept of “babbitry”
Sinclair Lewis
James Weldon Johnson and Zora Neale Hurston were two important figures of the
Harlem Renaissance
Two groups that did not participate in the prosperity of the 1920s were
unskilled workers and farmers
A complete ban on alcoholic drinks is called
Prohibition
Someone who opposes all organized government
Anarchist
Pilot who became an instant hero in 1927
Charles Lindbergh
A period of rising stock prices
bull market
Alfred E. Smith was the first ____ ever to run for President.
Catholic
Before 1927 motion pictures were
silent
Reduction or limitation of military weapons
disarmament
Mah-jongg, the Breakaway, and flagpole sitting were popular _______ of the Roaring Twenties.
fads
Buying stocks with borrowed money
buying on margin
During his 1928 run for President, Herbert Hoover declared that the United States was close to “the final triumph over
poverty
The _____ made it possible for women to vote in 1920 presidental election
19th Amendment
Republican president who died in office in 1923
Warren Harding