Vocab
A rise in prices and a decrease in the value of money, things cost more over time
Inflation
One of the main reasons the US economy was able to rebound during the 1920's was because of this industry.
Auto
A cultural, social, and artistic explosion centered in New York in the 1920's and 30's
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition is the forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of _________.
alcohol
How many homeruns did Babe Ruth hit in his career?
714
Young women who defied rules of conduct and dress.
Flappers
Agreement in which countries agreed to outlaw war.
Kellogg-Briand Pact
During this time period, ______ became more educated, began working and voting and began marrying later.
Women
Prohibition led to an increase in 3 things name them
speakeasies, bootlegging, and organized crime
Name 3 candies invented in the 1920s!
Gummy Bears, Milky way, Babe Ruth bar, Butter finger, Heath , reeses peanut butter cup
Purchasing goods and paying for them over time in small payments, often leading to consumer debt.
Installment buying
The fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.
Red Scare
A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in
National Origins Act
Person who makes, distributes, or sells goods illegally.
bootlegger
What is the most common female name in the 1920s
Mary
Secret, illegal bars where people drank alcohol during prohibition.
Speakeasy
Red Scare beliefs, Emergency Quota and National Origins Acts, Sacco & Vanzetti Conviction were all examples of What?
Nativism
"Trial of the century" had fundamentalism going against modernism over teaching evolution
Scopes Trial
What decorative art style of the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by precise, bold geometric shapes and strong colors used most notably in household objects and architecture?
Art Deco
What city was the most populated in America?
New York
Interracial organization founded to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.
NAACP
Scandal during Harding's adminstration involved the leasing of government oil to private individuals in exchange for bribes.
Teapot Dome
Two things that were at high levels culturally and economically in the beginning of the 1920's.
Unemployment, inflation, nativism, and racism
an artistic and literary movement which resulted from breaking from past conventions.
Modernism
The first Miss America was held in 1920, where was it located?
Atlantic City, New Jersey