Presidents & VPs
Campaigned on the promise to restore normalcy.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
This trumpeter invented the jazz solo when he stepped out from the band during a performance to play alone.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
Writers who expressed feelings of separation from American society.
Who were the Lost Generation?
Because this car was so affordable, more people could buy it, causing production to rise.
What was the Model T?
Before 1924, this ethnic group of people were not U.S. citizens.
Who were Native Americans?
This presidential candidate promised to continue the economic boom of his predecessor.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
A time when African American literature and art flourished in the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Before 1927, all movies were considered silent films. A new form of film added this ground-breaking feature.
What is film with sound?
These young women challenged society's ideas about womanhood.
Who were flappers?
The 1928 pact in which the U.S. and other countries agreed not to engage in war.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
One of the stains of President Harding's administration was when a friend that he appointed to the government was convicted of bribery. This scandal gets its name from a city in Wyoming.
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
Painter famous for creating detailed paintings of flowers.
Who was Georgia O'Keeffe?
Author of The Sun Also Rises, this writer was one of a group of writers in the 1920s who criticized American society.
Who was Ernest Hemingway?
A system that uses conveyor belts to move parts to different groups of workers.
What is the moving assembly line?
This constitutional amendment ended prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Republican candidate for vice president in 1920.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade this nickname.
What was the Jazz Age?
Many of the Lost Generation were among this group of Americans who left their home countries to live elsewhere.
Who were expatriates?
This famous legal battle was between fundamentalists and scientists about teaching the origin of humans.
What was the Scopes Trial?
Fear of Communist infiltration after the Russian Revolution.
What was the Red Scare?