Politics
This pro-business president died of a heart attack in 1923
Warren G. Harding
The banning of alcohol use
Prohibition / 18th Amendment
This invention created by Henry Ford helped the United States experience and economic boom
The Model T
This invention allowed Americans to keep up with current events as they occurred
The radio
The words "fast, free, loud, rebellious, fun and improvisation" describe this musical genre
Jazz
This president believed that social change should not come through federal legislation
Calvin Coolidge
This hate organization was revived in the 1920s to terrorize African Americans, Jews, Catholics and immigrants
The Ku Klux Klan
A period of rising stock prices
Bull market
This invention allowed people to listen to the same music they heard on the radio, but whenever they wanted
The phonograph
Women who challenged traditional norms by acting and dressing scandelously were refereed to as this
Flappers
The leaders of the United States during the 1920s wanted this
This was an emphasis on science and secular values over traditional religious beliefs
Modernsim
The rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products
Mass production
At each step, a worker added something to construct the automobile
The assembly line
This was the period in the 1920s when African American musicians, artists, poets and novelists celebrated their culture
The Harlem Renaissance
A scandal in which the Interior Secretary leased government oil reserves to private oilmen for bribes
Teapot Dome Scandal
This was the fear that Communists were working to destroy American way of life
The Red Scare
The flood of new, affordable goods becoming available to the public
Consumer revolution
This person was the first person to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
American writers of the 1920s are referred to as this
The Lost Generation
This was the goal of the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference
Prevent another arms race
This was an emphasis on Protestant teachings and the belief that every word in the Christian Bible was literal truth
Fundamentalism
The Revenue Acts of 1921, 1924 and 1926 did this
Lowered tax rates on individuals and businesses
The inventions of the electric vacuum cleaner and iron gave American women more of this
Leisure time / free time
This person was the leader of the black nationalist movement in Harlem
Marcus Garvey