Politics
This was the political party of all three presidents elected in the 1920s.
What is Republican?
This allowed people to buy goods over an extended period of time.
What is the Installment Plan?
Who is Louis Armstrong?
It's the fear of foreigners
What is xenophobia?
This law - put into effect via the 18th Amendment - banned alcohol
What is Prohibition?
He was both vice president and president.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This country owned approximately 40 percent of the world's wealth in the 1920s
What is the United States?
His most famous compositions include Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris.
Who is George Gershwin?
Prejudice against foreigners, it swept the nation in the 20s
What is nativism
This teacher got arrested and fined for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school in 1925
Who is John Scopes?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
He died in office on August 2, 1923.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This tariff raised taxes on some U.S. imports by 60 percent.
What is the Fordney-McCumber Tariff?
He wrote 1,500 songs, the most famous of which is "White Christmas"
Who is Irving Berlin?
This system established the maximum amount of people allowed to enter the U.S. from each European country
What is the quota system?
This MLB player for the New York Yankees hit a then record 60 home runs in 1927
Who is Babe Ruth?
He was elected president in 1928, carrying 40 of the 48 states.
The average price on this car in the 1924 was only $260, down from $850 in 1909
What is the Ford Model T?
Alan Locke wrote about this jazz pianist and composer in the essay titled "The Negro Spirituals"
Who is Duke Ellington?
This country was not allowed to have immigrants to the U.S.; it kept the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 limiting immigration to the U.S.
What is Japan?
He performed the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight on the airplane known as "The Spirit of St. Louis"
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This Secretary of State under Harding urged that no more warships would be built for ten years.
Who is Charles Evans Hughes?
He was offered $25,000 for the first Trans-Atlantic flight in 1926
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This female blues singer was the highest paid Black artist in the world in 1927
Who is Bessie Smith?
The national origins quota did not apply to people from this hemisphere1
What is the Western Hemisphere?
This Great Gatsby writer coined the term "Jazz Age" to describe the 1920s
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?