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Roaring Twenties
Presidents
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100
The ____ was used effectively for the first time in a presidential election.
What is radio
100
President _____ wanted the US to "return to normalcy" after WWI.
What is Warren G. Harding
100
____composed a jazz song entitled "The Entertainer".
What is Scott Joplin
100
Organization that help fight racism by encouraging pride and patriotism.
What is League of United Latin American Citizens
100
____ Amendment banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol.
What is 18th
200
How did many Americans afford to purchase expensive goods they couldn't afford to pay cash for?
What is buying on credit
200
During the Depressionn, shantytowns were built and nicknamed after which president?
What is Herbert Hoover ("hoovervilles")
200
The 19th Amendment gave women ______.
What is the right to vote
200
What did the New Deal programs do for Americans?
What is restored their hope in the future
200
Causing a person or group to become part of a different society, country, etc.
What is assimilation
300
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway were "Lost Generation" who wrote about _____.
What is adventure and travel
300
President who enacted the New Deal programs to recover from Great Depression.
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt
300
The racial violence against African Americans in 1919 was called_____.
What is Red Summer
300
During the New Deal, Native American tribes were given back their own rights to ______.
What is govern themselves
300
True or False: Prohibition was an easy law to enforce.
What is false. The enforcement of Prohibition was very expensive and ineffective.
400
_____ was a famous African American writer who familiarized America with the Harlem Renaissance.
What is Langston Hughes
400
____won the election of 1924 against Davis and LaFollette.
What is Calvin Coolidge
400
Defense Lawyer who defended John Scopes in the Scopes "Monkey Trial".
What is Clarence Darrow
400
FDR packed the _____ with nominees who would protect the constitutionality of his New Deal programs.
What is US Supreme Court
400
Which famous 1920s trial put the discussion of teaching evolution vs. creation theories to the test?
What is Scopes "Monkey" Trial
500
Investors lost a fortune, and the Great Depression began after the _____ crashed in 1929.
What is stock market
500
The _____ Dome Scandal involved corruption during Harding's presidency.
What is Teapot
500
Many Americans rode the _____ in search of hard to find jobs during the Great Depression.
What is railways
500
_____ was a negative effect of FDR's New Deal policies.
What is the government became too big/ increased the nation's debt
500
An increase in African-American populations in the cities was called the ________.
What is Great Migration