The Horrors of the Roarers
This group of haters sees a dramatic increase in membership in the 1920's due to rising fears of "foreign" individuals.
Who are the Ku Klux Klax?
The rise of this music genre helps support the Harlem Renaissance.
BONUS FOR 100 POINTS EACH: Name as many jazz artists as you can from the 20's.
What is J A Z Z?
BONUS: Name me the last remaining one of these in TN.
What are women's colleges?
Scopes is found guilty of this crime in the state of TN.
What is teaching evolution?
This event kills more people than WW1, and greets soldiers upon their return.
What is the Spanish Flu?
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
Illegal bars set up during Prohibition...
BONUS: Name the one that still exists in Knoxville.
What are speakeasies?
Women step into these roles post WW1 within the factories, and it grants them more of what?
What are office & clerical roles, and financial independence?
This is the defense during the Scopes Trial, arguing in favor of science.
BONUS: Name me something the defense did to try and win this case.
Who is Clarence Darrow?
This event terrifies the American public that anybody entering this country might be an anarchist... or something even worse...
What is the Red Scare?
BUY NOW, PAY LATER!!!
(AND ALSO EXPERIENCE A WHOLE LOT OF DEBT.)
Women who break the gender norms and party-hardy...
BONUS: Name me FIVE characteristics of these women.
The widened availability of this product allows women more control over their family planning.
BONUS: What company originally made this product?
What is birth control?
This is the prosecution in the Scopes trial, and a former presidential candidate for the Populist party.
BONUS: What specific question was asked to the prosecution that made him falter on the stand?
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This bases the immigration quotas by country, limiting each to only 2%.
What is the Immigration Act or 1924?
The name of the first affordable car that nearly anybody can buy AND the thing that brings entertainment right into your living room!
What is the Model T and the radio?
BONUS: Tell me the name of the massacre he orchestrated, and what he was ACTUALLY arrested for.
Who is Al Capone?
Best known for his rhyming poems, this writer gains massive popularity during the Harlem Renaissance.
BONUS: Name me the poem he wrote that we read in class.
Who is Langston Hughes?
What is... science becoming ignored in schools?
... it is not considered unconstitutional until 43 years later...
...fundamentalism wins over modernism...?
These are led in an effort to help calm down the public from anarchists, but really only serve to make people more horrified.
What are the Palmer Raids?
Both of these individuals made a historic trek across the Atlantic ocean...
Additionally: What likely happened to the one who got lost & what happened to the son of the other?
Who are Charles Lindbergh & Amelia Earhart?
How much money did the mob boss of the time make in modern day times? :)
What is 1.5 billion dollars?
Best known as a civil rights leader, this man argues for complete separation from white people.
BONUS: Name me the other two civil rights leaders & their approaches.
What is Garveyism?
All three of the Roaring 20's presidents engage in this form of politics.
BONUS: Name me all 3 of the Roaring 20's presidents.
What is laissez-faire politics?