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Random 20s Trivia
100

This amendment ended Prohibition

21st Amendment

100

Secret bars are known as what?

Speakeasies 

100
What is the name of the scandal that involved members of Harding's administration and oil reserves?

Teapot Dome

100

What was the name of the raids conducted by the government on suspected communists/anarchists?

Palmer Raids

100

Which pandemic ended in 1920 and killed an estimated 17 to 50 million people?

Influenza Pandemic/Spanish Flu

200

The Harlem Renaissance took place in what city AND state?

New York City, New York

(Harlem is a neighborhood in NYC)

200

The name given to women from the 1920s who rejected traditional social norms. Some ways that women showed this: short hair, makeup, short dresses, and smoking in public.

Flappers

200

Who is the president who died while in office?

Warren G Harding

200

What are the names of two immigrant anarchists who were accused of murder and put to death without "proper trial?"

Sacco and Vanzetti

200

What famous horror movie from the 1920s shows the issues of science vs religion at the time?

Frankenstein

300

The movement of African Americans from the South to the North for better job opportunities and to escape Jim Crow laws.

Great Migration

300

What Yankees player set the Major League Baseball record with 52 Home Runs?

Babe Ruth

300

Soda and Molded Ice Cream became very popular after what became a law?

Prohibition

300

Vocab term: prejudice against foreign born people

nativism
300

What was the top selling toy of the 1920s?

Raggedy Ann Doll

400

What famous jazz musician played piano at the Cotton Club, where his music reached thousands over radio broadcast?

Duke Ellington

400
Who completed the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris?

Charles Lindbergh 

400

This trial is nicknamed "the Monkey Trial" because of it's argument of Evolution vs. Religion.

Scopes Trial

400

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited immigration of what two groups of people? (not what countries)

Catholics and Jews

400

What American newspaper mocked rocket scientist Robert H Goddard after he said rockets could take men to the moon?

The New York Times

500

Religious movement of the 1920s, where they believe that everything in the Bible is exactly what happened.

Fundamentalism

500

This crime boss from Chicago led a ring of prostitution, gambling, drug trafficking, and bootlegging through the city from 1925-1931.

Al Capone (Scarface)

500

This country had the strongest economy after World War I.

United States

500

What event led to the Red Scare?

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

500

Even though this object was gaining popularity and "only" about $400 at the time, it was still out of reach of many Americans. In fact, only about 8% of the US population owned one. What is it?

Automobile (car)