Economic
This was the primary US economic policy of the 1920s.
What is Laissez Faire?
This is what Henry Ford created in order to make automobiles more accessible to people.
What is the assembly line?
This ended the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
This was a movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North in an attempt to escape racism and discrimination and find work.
What is the Great Migration?
These were shantytowns built by homeless people.
What were hoovervilles?
This is the type of investment activity that greatly contributed to the Great Depression.
What is credit/loan?
This amendment prohibited alcohol.
What is the 18th amendment?
This was the name of FDR's programs.
What is the New Deal?
This was the period of severe drought that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture during the 1930s and caused this phenomenon.
What is the dust bowl?
This amendment repealed the Prohibition Act.
What is the 21st amendment?
This is also known as "Black Tuesday."
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This was the name given to the rebellious, independent women that had short hair, wore short skirts, visited speakeasies and wanted the same freedoms that men had during the 1920's.
What are flappers?
The U.S. was led between 1921-1933 by these Republican Presidents.
Who were Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Warren Harding?
This is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
He was an American mobster who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
Who was Al Capone?
This is the period of time in an economy that is relatively stagnant or on the decline.
What is a recession?
During the 1920’s, motion pictures became widely popular and the following people were all famous actors during this time period, EXCEPT:
A. Charlie Chaplin C. Babe Ruth
B. Greta Garbo D. Rudolph Valentino
What is C. Babe Ruth?
This was the amendment and year women were able to gain suffrage.
What are the 19th amendment in 1919?
These three groups of people did not experience prosperity in the 1920’s.
African- Americans C. Business Owners
Farmers D. Native Americans
Who were African Americans, Farmers and Native Americans?
Babe Ruth was popular in this sport.
What is baseball?
Gangsters made plenty of money during the 1920s by making their own "moonshine" and selling what they made or also known as this.
What is bootlegging?
In 1925, this substitute biology teacher was illegally teaching about the theory of evolution in his classroom and created much controversy.
Who was John Scopes?
After WWI, this is what the United States wanted to do in relation to foreign affairs, essentially separating themselves from the rest of the world.
What is isolationism?
This is when Americans believe that their way of life in their country is superior to other countries and other people and they distrust and dislike foreigners.
What is nativism?
These three African Americans were influential during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Waldo Ellison?