People
He was a preacher who spoke out against the damaging societal effects of alcohol.
Who is Billy Sunday?
The law that was meant to enforce the 18th Amendment and created the Prohibition Bureau.
What is the Volstead Act?
Term that described the modern, more free women of the 1920's.
What is flapper?
A great (African) American composer of the 1920's.
Who is Duke Ellington?
Although many people had high hopes for this law, by the time it was repealed, it had made little improvements in society.
What is Prohibition or the 18th Amendment?
He was the US Attorney General who conducted raids to root out Communism.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
Legislation that severely restricted immigration from most countries into the US.
What is Emergency Quota Act?
The name given for the flourishing art and literature of African Americans during the 1920's.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Her poems described the new freedom from traditional restrictions that many women experienced in the 1920's.
Who is Edna St. Vincent Millay?
The policy of a nation pulling away from involvement in international affairs.
What is isolationism?
He led a movement that encouraged African Americans to move "Back to Africa."
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings faced each other in the courtroom over the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes (Monkey) Trial?
Hidden saloons or nightclubs that continued to sell alcohol during Prohibition.
What is a speakeasy?
He wrote the Great Gatsby that describes the opulent life of the wealthy during the 1920's.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Unlike most people during the 1920's, this group saw their economic prospects dip after demand for their goods dropped, and they were saddled with surpluses and large loans.
Who are farmers?
He became an American hero after completing the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
He was the US Navy, Secretary of the Interior who was convicted of bribery for his involvement in the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Who is Albert B. Fall?
A popular communications invention of the 1920's; it allowed Americans to have a common shared culture as it reached into millions of homes.
What is radio?
Well known poet of the Harlem Renaissance whose wrote about the lives of working-class African Americans.
Who is Langston Hughes?
An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.
What is communism?
Pro-business President who served during much of the 1920s.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Tariff that raised imports by up to 60% to protect American business interests.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
This became a trend after a publicity stunt to attract movie goers?
What is flagpole sitting?
He was an a WWI veteran who wrote about the horrors of war with stories like "A Farwell to Arms."
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This group saw their membership and power decline during the 1920's, partly as a result of willing immigrant laborers and the fact that this group excluded African Americans from membership.
What is organized labor (or labor unions)?