Flapper Swag
These three new fashion changes describe the 20s Flapper Girl.
What is shorter hair, shorter dresses, head bands, make-up and no sleeves or necklines?
This scared Americans most after WWI.
What is Communism?
This invention allowed Americans to literally see more of the country and made it seem smaller.
What is the Automobile?
This is when you buy a small piece of ownership in a company.
What is owning stock?
American households that owned radios, refrigerators and washing machines would first need this installed in their homes?
What is Electricity?
Flapper girls were trying to be the opposite of this person in their lives.
Who is their Gilded Age mothers?
This was the name for American's fear of what happened in Russia.
What is the "Red Scare"?
The popularity of this new item stimulated the steel, rubber and petroleum industries.
What is the Automobile?
This happened to banks when customers demanded their money all at the same time.
What is failure or collapse?
Americans in the 20s could now use this for instant access to news, advertisements and live sports events.
What is the Radio?
This was the first "talkie" movie of the 20s.
What is "Th Jazz Singer"?
This is the outlawing of consumption, sales and production of alcohol in America.
What is Prohibition?
This is how you started a model T.
What is a crank start?
Speculation, overextension of credit and bank failures all helped cause this in 1929.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This is the word that describes borrowing money to buy stocks.
What is "Margin"?
These were tow of the first social medial superstars of the 20s.
Who is Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh?
Another name for groups of criminals that made themselves very wealthy during Prohibition.
What is Organized Crime or the Mafia?
These industries were stimulated by the popularity of the automobile.
Nickname given to the day the Stock Market collapsed.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
This scandal in the 1920s involved secret leasing of Wyoming oil reserves.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
One of the biggest Gangster stars of the 1920s Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
This alcoholic concoction was often made secretly in big cities and sold on the streets.
What is "Bath Tube Gin"?
This new method allowed Henry Ford to put thousands of Model T's on the market fast and cheap.
What is the assembly line and pre-fabrication of parts?
This is what people did at their banks after the Stock Market Crash and economic crisis.
What is try to take all their money out of the bank?
Many Americans in the 1920s began using this to buy all the new conveniences of the age.
What is credit?