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One result of the Prohibition was the rise in this.

What is crime?

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The economy grew in the 1920s as consumers began to buy goods using this
What is credit?
100

The idea that government should not get involved with the economy.

What is laissez faire ?

100

Popular nickname for the 1920s that emphasized a lively time in history.

What were the Roaring Twenties?

100
Soiled oil rights to private companies and was illegally paid for the deal. Previously the oil rights were owned by the US Navy.

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal ?

200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

Make the sale and production of alcohol in the United States illegal. 

What is the 18th Amendment?

200

A way to buy stock by paying 10% down.

What is "buying on margin"?

200

The Red Scare of the early 1920s was aimed at removing these two groups of radicals from America.

Who are anarchists and communists?

200

Supreme Court Case that kept the South segregated

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

200
These are two groups of people targeted by the KKK in the 1920s
What are African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and Catholics?
300

The rapid development of what form of media during the 1920s promoted the creation of a national culture.

What is radio?

300

a panic where people quickly try to withdraw their savings from the bank.

What is a bank run?

300

Name the three Republican presidents of the 1920s.  

Who are Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover?

300
Form of entertainment that grew in popularity during the 1920s, starting out as "silent" and ending the decade being called "talkies".

What are movies?

300

This president advocated a return to "normalcy" in 1920, after WWI.

Who was Warren Harding?

400

This style of music was brought to northern cities by southern African Americans  

What is jazz?

400

This is the term for what Henry Ford made more efficient and led to his success in the automobile industry.

What is the assembly line?

400

After the Economic crash in 1929, then President Fraklin Roosevelt created these to help solve the crisis 

What are the New Deal programs 

400
The Scopes trial was about whether or not to teach this in schools.
What is evolution?
400

October 29, 1929.

What is the date that the Stock Market crashed?

500

Term for a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.  

What is a flapper?

500

These affected the American economy because they fueled the growth of the consumer economy.  

What are installment plans?

500

Tariff rate was raised to the highest point in US History. This ended up dropping the global economy.

What is the Hawley Smoot Tariff?

500

Despite the prosperity of the 1920s, life remained hard for many of this group of people. 

Who are the farmers?

500

The Palmer Raids conducted by Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer and assisted by J Edgar Hoover sought to remove these from America.

What are radicals (communists)?