The Roaring 20s
This nickname was given to the 1920s because of its economic growth, cultural change, and excitement.
What is The Roaring 20s?
This innovation by Henry Ford made cars affordable through the use of the assembly line.
What was mass production?
This trial in 1925 debated the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This October 1929 event is considered the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This risky investment practice allowed people to buy stocks with borrowed money, increasing losses when prices fell.
What is buying on margin?
This new form of music, popularized by artists like Louis Armstrong, became the soundtrack of the decade.
What is Jazz?
This system allowed consumers to buy goods now and pay for them later in installments.
What is buying on credit (installment buying)?
This immigration law of 1924 limited the number of immigrants from certain countries.
What is the National Origins Act (Immigration Act of 1924)?
This risky practice involved buying stocks with borrowed money.
What is buying on margin?
This economic problem occurred when factories produced more goods than consumers could afford to buy.
What is overproduction?
This amendment to the Constitution prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This new technology brought news, music, and entertainment into American homes.
What is the radio?
This revived white supremacist group gained millions of members during the 1920s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This term describes the excessive production of goods that consumers could not afford to buy.
What is overproduction?
These important institutions were not insured. When there was an economic panic in 1929, many of them failed!
What are banks?
These young women challenged traditional behavior with shorter skirts, bobbed hair, and new social freedoms.
Who were flappers?
This economic policy favored by Republican presidents reduced government involvement in business.
What is laissez-faire economics?
This cultural movement celebrated African American art, literature, and music in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
These institutions failed when customers rushed to withdraw their savings after the crash.
What are banks?
FOMO stands for Fear Of Missing Out! What instituion did many think was an easy and definite way to get rich in the 20s that turned out to NOT be the case!
What is the stock market?
Two presidents that can be "blamed" for much of the bubble that burst at the end of the 1920s. Note, Hoover is not one of the since he inherited this problem!
Who were Harding and Coolidge?
This protective tax on imports was designed to help American businesses but hurt international trade.
What is a tariff?
This famous gangster became a symbol of organized crime during Prohibition.
Who was Al Capone?
This day, October 29, 1929, saw panic selling and massive losses in the stock market.
What is Black Tuesday?
In the 1920s there was a very uneven distribution of _______________________.
What is wealth?