Politics of the 1920s
President in the 1920s who wanted the county to "return to normalcy" after World War I. Died while in office.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Car first built by the Ford Company in 1908
What is the Model-T?
Arrested for teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee law.
Who is John Scopes?
This legislation outlawed the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquor.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Singer who symbolized soul
Who is Bessie Smith?
Became president when Harding died in 1923. He distanced himself from Harding and kept government out of business.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Authorized postal officials to hire private pilots.
What is the Kelly Act?
The group that most wanted to restrict immigration. Also targeted Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and other groups said to be “un-American.”
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
Secret illegal clubs that sold alcohol.
What are speakeasies?
Leader of the “back to Africa” movement
Who is Marcus Garvey?
U.S. Secretary of State under Harding and Coolidge.
Who is Charles Evans Hughes?
Pilot who made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Some women, who smoked cigarettes, drank prohibited liquor, and wore makeup and sleeveless dresses with short skirts.
Who are the flappers?
Defined intoxicating liquor and set up agency of enforcement for prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
Writer who became a leading voice of the African American experience in the United States
Who is Langston Hughes?
An agreement to outlaw war.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Divided operations into simple tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum.
What is the assembly line?
Charles Darwin’s theory, which said that human beings had developed from lower forms of life over the course of millions of years.
What is evolution?
People involved in transporting alcohol illegally.
What is bootlegging?
Composer, pianist, and bandleader whose sound was a blend of improvisation and orchestration
Who is Duke Ellington?
Payments Germany was required to make as punishment for starting World War I
What are reparations?
Large-scale manufacturing done with machinery, made these changes possible by increasing supply and reducing costs.
What is mass production?
The belief that God created the world as described in the Bible.
What is creationism?
This violent, organized crime figure was finally convicted of tax evasion, even thought he was a murderer, bootlegger, mob boss.
Who is Al Capone?
An indigenous musical form developed by African Americans in the 1920's. Considered more upbeat than blues.
What is Jazz?