ADJUSTING TO PEACETIME
CHANGES IN AMERICAN SOCIETY
THE JAZZ AGE
THE ECONOMY OF THE 1920'S
MISC.
100
HIS PRESIDENCY WAS MARRED BY SCANDAL. HE WAS A SUPPORTEr OF BIG BUSINESS. HIS BIGGEST SCANDAL WAS THE TEAPOT DOME, WYOMING, WHICH WAS A GOVERNMENT OWNED OIL RESERVE. THIS MAN SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AND DIED, THEN HIS VICE PRESIDENT TOOK OVER.
What is President Warren G. Harding
100
BOOTLEGGERS AND SPEAKEASIES, MADE IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ENFORCE WHAT LAW THAT BANNED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES.
What is prohibition
100
NICKNAMED "LUCKY LINDY", HE BECAME THE MOST BELOVED HERO OF THE 1920'S. THIS YOUNG AIRPLANE PILOT WAS THE FIRST TO FLY NON STOP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN 1927. WHO IS HE?
What is Charles Lindbergh
100
TO ENCOURAGE SPENDING DURING THE LATES 1920'S, BUSINESSES OFFERED THE ABILITY TO BUY ON CREDIT. WHAT IS THE ANSWER
What is installment buying.
100
WHAT RACIST GROUP REBIRTHED DURING TOE 1920'S?
What is K.K.K.
200
A SOFT-SPOKEN, SERIOUS NEW ENGLANDER WHO WAS KNOWN FOR HIS INTEGRITY AND HONESTY. HE RAN FOR PRESIDENT IN 1924 AND WON BY A LARGE MARGIN.
What is President Calvin Coolidge
200
STATES RATIFIED THIS AMENDMENT QUICKLY AFTER IT WAS PASSED. THIS AMENDMENT OVERTURNED THE PROHIBITION AMENDMENT, WHAT AMENDMENT IS THIS.
What is 21st Amendment
200
THIS MUSIC COMBINES RHYTHMS FROM WEST AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, WORKING CHANTS AND SPIRITUALS FROM THE RURAL SOUTH & HARMONIES FROM EUROPE INTO AN ORIGINAL NEW STYLE OF MUSIC. WHAT IS IT?
What is Jazz.
200
DURING THE BULL MARKET, MANY BUYERS WHO COULDN'T AFFORD TO BUY STOCKS BEGAN TO BORROW MONEY TO BUY STOCKS, WHICH IS CALLED WHAT?
What is buying on margin
200
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND ERNEST HEMINGWAY WERE BOTH WRITERS DURING THIS AGE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. WHAT PERIOD OF TIME IS THIS?
What is the Jazz Age
300
WORLD WAR I MADE THE UNITED STATES A INTERNATIONAL POWER. WE STILL HELD TO THE IDEA OF ISOLATIONISM AND THE UNITED STATES PARTICIPATED IN CONFERENCES THAT ENCOURAGE THIS, WHICH IS THE REDUCTION OR LIMITATION OF MILITARY ARMAMENTS.
What is disarmament
300
WHAT AMENDMENT GAVE WOMEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
What is 19th Amendment
300
WRITERS OF THE 1920'S REFLECTED THE EXUBERANCE OF THE ERA AND CRITICIZED ITS EXCESSES. THEY ACCUSED AMERICANS OF TURNING FROM INTERNATIONAL IDEALISM TO WHAT!
What is greedy selfishness
300
BECAUSE AMERICAN FARMERS GREW MORE CROPS THAN NEEDED, FARMERS HAD TO SELL OF THEIR SURPLUS, AND DEMAND FOR AMERICAN FARM PRODUCTS DECLINED. THESE ARE ALL REASONS FOR WHAT?
What is agricultural depression.
300
THERE WERE THREE MAJOR INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED AMERICAN LIVES IN THE 1920'S. WHAT WERE THEY?
What is the automobile, radio, and the movies.
400
IN THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION OF 1917, A GROUP OF PEOPLE TOOK POWER IN RUSSIA. THEY CREATED THE SOVIET UNION, WHICH BECAME THE WORLD'S FIRST STATE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SYSTEM IN WHICH THE STATE OWNS THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND A SINGLE PARTY RULES. WHAT IS THIS FORM OF GOVERNMENT CALLED.
What is communism
400
THIS IMPORTANT PART OF NEW CULTURE BECAME THE LEADING SUPPLIER OF ENTERTAINMENT. IT PUT AMERICANS IN BASEBALL PARKS AND ON THE FLOOR OF POLITICAL CONVENTIONS AND TURNED MANY ENTERTAINERS INTO HOUSEHOLD NAMES. WHAT IS THIS INVENTION!
What is the radio
400
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ERA OF TIME WERE WRITERS, MUSICIANS AND POETS REATED AGAINST THE PREJUDICE THEY FACED WHILE EXPRESSING HOPE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
400
WHO WON THE ELECTION OF 1928?
What is President Herbert Hoover
400
WHAT THREE PRESIDENTS ARE COVERED IN THE ERA KNOWN AS THE JAZZ AGE?
What is Presidents Harding, Warren & Coolidge
500
THE UNITED STATES COMPLETELY PROHIBITED IMMIGRATION FROM WHAT COUNTRY?
What is Asia
500
THIS HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER WAS PUT ON TRIAL IN THE SCOPE TRIAL OF 1925 FOR TEACHING EVOLUTION IN HIGH SCHOOL. WHO IS HE?
What is John Scopes.
500
WHAT DOES THE ACRYONIM, NAACP STAND FOR?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
500
THE WEALTHIEST AMERICANS MADE UP WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION?
What is 5%.
500
WHO WAS THE JAMAICAN IMMIGRANT THAT CREATED THE UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION THAT PROMOTED BLACK PRIDE & UNITY & ENCOURAGED AFRICAN AMERICANS TO MOVE PERMANENTLY TO AFRICA. WHO IS HE?
What is Marcus Garvey
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