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Nickname of the 1920s
Roaring Twenties
This political party dominated the 1920s
Republicans
This amendment established Prohibition
18th
Rebellious, independent women who cut their hair short and wore shorter skirts were given this name in the 1920s
Flappers
This invention took off and led to the rise of popular culture maybe more than anything throughout the 19teens and twenties. Almost every home in america had one by 1930
radio
This man perfected the assembly line.
Henry Ford
This political/economic idea where the government intervenes in business and economics as little as possible dominated the 1920s
laissez-faire economics
Famous mob boss from Chicago who became enormously powerful running illegal alcohol during the 20s and early 30s.
Al Capone
This form of music grew in popularity during the 20s and is considered Americas greatest cultural gift to the world. Almost all popular American music comes from it or was influenced by it.
Jazz
With rising wages and more disposable income many people say that the 1920s saw the first large this in American History.
Middle Class
New uses for technology applied to industrial production allowed factories to pump out far more material than ever which led to a fall in prices. This is called this
Mass Production
People who moved alcohol illegally within the country were known as this_____ While people who smuggled alcohol in from outside the country were known as this___
Bootleggers and Rum Runners
These "agencies" (or this part of the economy) grew tremendously during the 1920s because of all of the mass production and availability of products. They especially targeted women.
Advertising
Man who became famous for the first transatlantic flight. Was one of the first true American "celebrities". His son was later kidnapped and murdered in a trial deemed "the trail of the century"
Charles Lindbergh
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Ford Motor Company introduced this which led to much higher worker productivity, happiness, and loyalty to the company. It also allowed workers to eventually reinvest in the company.
What party and President dominated the 1930s and why?
FDR and the Democrats because the Republicans had been blamed by the American Public for the Great Depression
What was the real result of ending alcohol and why was the 18th amendment so unsuccessful?
Organized crime, impossible to enforce
Famous court case which pitted religion against science in the 1920s where a teacher was tried for teaching evolution of man in school in TN
Scopes monkey trial
A rebirth in African American culture and pride that began in NY during the 20s and into the 30s
Poetry and Literature and jazz became an important form of expression
Harlem Renaissance
The easy access to this in factories is probably the biggest reason for increased production during the 1920s.
Electricity
What demographic began to slowly vote for more and more Democrats by the end of the 1920s? Where was this not true?
Black Americans except in the South
Name of the secret saloons in cities
Speakeasy
He was a jazz composer, conductor, and performer during the Harlem Renaissance.
He experimented with and developed the style that would quickly bring him worldwide success. He would be among the first to focus on musical form and composition in jazz.
He wrote over 2000 pieces in his lifetime.
Duke Ellington
Famous Black poet from Harlem that is credited with some of the first "jazz poetry". He is sort of seen as a hero of Black culture from the time period.
Langston Hughes.