Political Acts
Outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages
18th Amendment
Completed the first nonstop transatlantic flight across the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from New York to Paris
Charles Lindberg
What group harassed groups of people and worked against urbanization, women's rights, and modern technology and was an influential force in American politics by the mid-1920s
Ku Klux Klan
Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s earned this nickname
Name one of the dance crazes that swept the nation during this time
Charleston, the Toddle, the Shimmy
The first commercial radio station
KDKA
An agreement signed by the United States and 14 other nations that outlawed war
Kellogg-Briand Act
Baseball player who shattered home run records
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
A time of fear of Communists
The Red Scare
Produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life
Langston Hughes
Style of music that was an expression of the suffering of African Americans during slavery
The Blues
The first sturdy and reliable car built by Henry Ford that was nicknamed the Tin Lizzie
Model T
Amendment that ended Prohibition
21st Amendment
Actress known as "America's Sweetheart" who was a savvy businesswoman who founded the United Artists film company
Mary Pickford
Writer who wrote short stories and novels who gained fame for his powerful and direct writing style
Ernest Hemingway
Played trumpet and is known for stepping out from the band to perform a solo
Louis Armstrong
Young women who cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses that openly challenged traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave
Flappers
Act that set fines and punishments for disobeying Prohibition
Volstead Act
Became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Amelia Earhart
Scandal that involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies in exchange for control of government oil reserves by companies
Teapot Dome Scandal
Well known artist for detailed paintings of flowers and the Southwest
Georgia O'Keeffe
Had a "big band" sound that blended many instruments together in songs
Edward "Duke" Ellington
Who seized control of the illegal alcohol business?
Bootleggers
Act that limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Negro League star who was considered to be among the best baseball players in history
Satchel Paige/ Josh Gibson
The two men who were arrested and convicted for the robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard which became one of America's best-known criminal cases
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Author who reflected the experiences of the African American woman
Zora Neale Hurston
Empress of Blues
Bessie Smith
Motion picture with sound
Talkie