Politics & Policy
The Republican presidents of the decade generally favored a hands-off approach to business, known by this French term.
What is Laissez-faire?
The practice of borrowing money to purchase stocks, popular during the economic boom.
What is Buying on Margin?
Illegal bars or nightclubs where alcohol was secretly sold and consumed.
What are Speakeasies?
The 1925 court case in Tennessee over a teacher violating a state law by teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This style of young woman challenged social norms, sporting short hair and shorter skirts.
What are Flappers?
The Immigration Act of 1924 established these based on national origin to severely limit Southern and Eastern European arrivals.
What are Quotas?
Henry Ford perfected the use of this standardized manufacturing method to dramatically lower the cost of the Model T.
What is the Assembly Line?
People who illegally smuggled alcohol across borders or produced it illicitly.
What are Bootleggers?
This prominent nativist organization, which promoted white supremacy and anti-immigrant sentiment, saw a massive resurgence in the 1920s.
What is the KKK?
The new musical genre blending African American spirituals, work songs, and European harmonies, often associated with Louis Armstrong.
What is Jazz?
A massive real estate scandal involving oil reserves and President Harding's administration officials.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The high tariffs passed in the 1920s aimed to protect domestic industry but discouraged this vital international activity.
What is International Trade?
The name of the famous Chicago gangster, nicknamed "Scarface," who profited immensely from bootlegging.
Who is Al "Scarface" Capone?
The movement of African Americans from the Southern states to the Northern and Western industrial cities.
What was the Great Migration?
This major form of mass media, which connected families and communities across the nation, first boomed in the 1920s.
What is the Radio?
This amendment made Prohibition a Constitutional law.
What is the 18th amendment?
The huge influx of people from rural areas to cities in the 1920s was largely driven by the availability of these.
What are Factory Jobs?
The passage of the 18th Amendment was meant to curb societal ills and was often championed by this social movement group.
What was the Temperance Movement or the Women's Christian Temperance Movement?
The belief that native-born inhabitants are superior to immigrants, which fueled anti-immigrant sentiment.
What is Nativism?
This New York neighborhood became the center of a flourishing African American cultural and artistic movement.
What is Harlem?
Following World War I, the U.S. signed this pact that outlawed war, and failed to join this international organization.
What was the Kellogg Briand Pact and the International Court?
October 29, 1929, is known for this catastrophic event that signaled the end of the Roaring 20's and the start of the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
It was the law passed by Congress that was used to enforce prohibition.
What is the Volstead Act?
This conservative Christian belief system, challenged by evolution, strongly defended the literal truth of the Bible.
What is Fundamentalism?
Langston Hughes and Claude McKay were major figures in this art form during the Renaissance.
What is Poetry?