Postwar Struggles
Fun Vocabulary
People
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Vague and unimportant stuff
100

Someone who is against all forms of government 

What is an anarchist?

100

Young women of the 20s who embraced new fashions and broke away from traditional lifestyles. 

Who were flappers?

100

Friends of President Harding who were caught in various scandals.

What was the Ohio Gang? 

100

An underground saloon or bar. 

What is a Speakeasy?

100

A secret white supremacy organization in the U.S. 

What is the KKK?

100

New York Yankees baseball star and homerun king for many, many years. 

Who is Babe Ruth?

200

Prejudice against foreign born people 

What is Nativism ?

200

Someone who sold alcohol illegally. 

Who is a bootlegger?

200

Two Italian immigrants who were arrested and executed for robbery and murder. 

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

200

 A set of principles giving men more sexual freedom than women in the 1920s

What is a double standard?

200

This amendment to the Constitution banned the manufacture and distribution of alcohol. 

What is the 18th amendment?

200

Author of the Great Gatsby and coined the phrase the "Jazz Age".

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald? 

300

The Red Scare was a fear of the spread of this

What is communism?

300

Buying something with a little money down and then making monthly payments. 

What is the installment plan?

300

He was elected president in 1920.

Who is Warren G. Harding?

300

A Christian belief in a literal interpretation of the Bible. 

What is fundamentalism?

300

This act of Congress was passed to try and enforce Prohibition. 

What is the Volstead Act? 

300

Famous jazz musician and trumpet player from New Orleans. 

Who is Louis Armstrong? 

400

An argument over evolution being taught in schools that took place in court. 

What is the Scopes Trial? 

400

A tax on an import. 

What is a tariff?

400

He was president in 1920.

Who was Woodrow Wilson?

400

An economic system based on a single party and government ownership of the means of production. 

What is communism? 

400

This service was the first peacetime use of the airplane.

What is delivering the mail? 

400

He was the science teacher found guilty of teaching evolution in a public school. 

Who was Scopes? 

500

This system established the maximum number of immigrants that could enter the U.S. in the 1920s.

What is the quota system?

500

The policy of not wanting to be involved in world affairs. 

What is isolationism?

500

He was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 

Who was Charles Lindberg? 

500

A scandal involving selling government owned oil leases to private companies. 

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?

500

A celebration of African American culture, art, and music. 

What is the Harlem Renaissance? 

500

He was the fall guy in the Teapot Dome Scandal. 

Who was Albert Fall?