Boom & Bust
Technology and Transportation
Prohibition & Law
Cultural Movements
Chapter 8 Vocabulary
100

This significant demographic shift occurred in the 1920s.

What is that, for the first time more Americans lived in urban centers than rural areas?

100

One device brought news and entertainment into homes by radio waves.

What is the radio?

100

This Amendment prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol nationwide.

What is the 18th Amendment?

100

This blossoming of African‑American literature, art, and music took place in 1920s New York.

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

100

An economic system in which private individuals own and operate businesses for profit.

What is capitalism?

200

On October 29, 1929, this dramatic economic event took place.

What is the stock market crash?

200

He pioneered mass‑production methods that drove down automobile prices.

Who is Henry Ford?

200

During Prohibition, an illicit bar where you could buy a drink was known by this slang name.

What is a speakeasy?

200

The 1925 trial debating whether evolution could be taught in schools was nicknamed this.

What is the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?

200

A secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

What is a conspiracy?

300

By 1927, this percentage of household goods were being bought on credit.

What is 75 percent?

300

In 1927, he became the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.

Who is Charles Lindbergh?

300

Passed in WW I, this act made it a crime to speak or publish against the U.S. government.

What is the Sedition Act?

300

This secret organization saw a resurgence in the 1920s, promoting white‑supremacist views.

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

300

Deliberate destruction or obstruction of equipment, machinery, or processes.

What is sabotage?

400

He was inaugurated president in 1929 promising “blue skies” ahead.

Who is Herbert Hoover?

400

This invention was called the most important of the 1920s, fundamentally changing daily life and travel.

What is the automobile?

400

This process allows citizens to propose or repeal laws by popular vote.

What is a referendum?

400

This ideology calls for communal ownership of property and elimination of class distinctions.

What is communism?

400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY 800 POINTS

The right or privilege to vote in public elections.

What is suffrage?

500

This social group experienced significant new freedoms in the 1920s.

Who are women?

500

William ______ founded this company, which grew into Washington’s largest industry making this vehicle.

What is Boeing (airplanes)?

500

This term refers to publishing false statements that damage someone’s reputation in writing.

What is libel?

500

In 1933, this Amendment formally ended Prohibition by repealing the 18th.

What is the 21st Amendment?

500

Written defamation—publishing false statements that harm someone’s reputation.

What is libel?