People
Anti-Alcohol hatchet wielding grandma
Carrie Nation
Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a radical fashion
Flappers
trumpet player who influenced the development of jazz
Louis Armstrong
People in the 1920s thought immigrants were taking all the...
Jobs
What cause did the Women's Christian Temperance Union support?
Prohibition
What did the 18th amendment ban
Production, transportation, and sale of alcohol
Red Scare was the fear of...
Communism
Herbert Hoover (give party and years in office)
1929-1933, Republican
Location of the First case of Spanish Flu
Ft. Riley, KS, USA
Founder of the Anti-Saloon League and author of the Volstead Act
Wayne Wheeler
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production and assembly lines in his Detroit plants
Henry Ford
United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader
Duke Ellington
Immigration Acts in the 1910s and 1920s targeted immigrants from
Southern and Eastern Europe
the 18th amendment was ratified in
1919
Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the Prohibition era
Bootleggers
Amendment that gave women the right to vote
19th
Calvin Coolidge (give party and years in office)
1923-1929, Republican
A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils System
A mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits.
Al Capone
Famous baseball player of the 1920s, the Great Bambino
Babe Ruth
United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindbergh
What did the 1917 immigration act put in place to limit immigration?
literacy test and fees
amendment that ended prohibition
21st
Secret bars where alcohol could be purchased and drank illegally
Speakeasies
If your country avoids interacting with and getting involved in the problems of other nations it is...
a) interventionist
b) isolationist
c) internationalist
Isolationist
Woodrow Wilson (give party and years in office)
Democrat, 28th Pres., 1913-1921
The Great Migration was the movement of African Americans from ___________ to __________
South to North
New York mafia gangster
Lucky Luciano
Anarchist Italian immigrants accused of and executed for murder
Sacco and Vanzetti
African American leader durin the 1920s who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans back to Africa.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921 limited immigration to what percent using census data from what year?
3%, 1910
what year did the 21st amendment go into effect
1933
Major loophole in the Volstead Act
drinking alcohol was still legal
These are taxes placed on goods brought into the US from other nations
import tariffs
FDR (give party and years in office)
Democrat, 1933-1945
Why was it called the Spanish Flu?
The first news of the disease came from Spain, they were not in the war so there was no censorship to what they could release in newspapers. The other countries in the war wouldn't report it as it would ruin morale of the soldiers
Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare
Mitchell Palmer
Who was Harding's secretary of the interior that illegally leased oil reserves to private companies in the Teapot Dome Scandal
Albert Bacon Fall
Calvin Coolidge's Nickname
Silent Cal
the 1924 Johnson Reed Act limited immigration to what percent using census data from what year?
2%, 1890
Why was Prohibition hard to enforce?
government didn't want to spend money on enforcement or agents and many took bribes or were corrupt
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
On February 14, 1929 Capone's men dressed as plice officers raided a rival gang. They killed seven suspects execution style with their hands against the wall. Capone's men shot them with over 150 bullets.
Why did Crop prices drop in the 1920s?
Overproduction after WWI
Warren G Harding (give party and years in office)
Republican, 1921-1923
Harlem Renaissance
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished