Economic Boom
This vehicle, known as the "Tin Lizzie," revolutionized the automobile industry and quickly became the most popular car in the United States.
What is the Model T?
This president, when elected in 1920, pledged a "return to normalcy," rather than push an agenda of progressive reform.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
The passing of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 to the US Constitution led to this "dry" period in American History.
What is Prohibition?
This invention allowed for folks across the United States to hear the same stories and celebrate the same icons.
What is the radio?
This musical form based off improvisation, emerged throughout the United States in the 1920s, to include Harlem.
What is jazz?
Henry Ford consulted with scientific management experts to improve his mass-production techniques, leading to the refinement of this process.
What is the assembly line?
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
Beginning in 1915, there was a resurgence in this terrorist group in the rural south that sought to intimidate African Americans, Catholics, and Jews.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
This great American baseball player, known as the Bambino and the Sultan of the Swat, was one of the first major radio celebrities.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This American trumpeter quickly became the unofficial ambassador of jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This event involved the burning of a prosperous black community in Oklahoma in 1921.
What is the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?
This scandal under the Hoover administration involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall leasing oil properties to private oilmen in return for "loans."
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This was a term used for the growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas.
What is modernism?
In May 1927, this man set off in his single-engine plan, the Spirit of St. Louis, from New York City to Paris, becoming the first person to fly across the Atlantic solo and non-stop.
Who is Charles Lindbergh.
This era was defined by the flowering of African American culture, involving the celebration of novelists, poets, and artists who explored questions of race in America.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
These towering buildings began to reshape cities in the early 20th century.
What are skyscrapers?
This US president, who succeeded Warren G. Harding, oversaw a spectacular boom in the national economy for his six-year tenure.
Who is Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge?
This quote from Al Capone illustrates this rising industry of the 1920s.
"I make money from supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers, are as guilty as I am. The only difference between us is that I sell and they buy. Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a businessman.
What is organized crime?
These women of the 1920s were more liberated than previous generations; they wore shorter dresses, put on more makeup, and danced to the latest crazes.
Who are Flappers / Flapper Girls?
Who wrote this poem?
"The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people.
The stars are beautiful, So are the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also are the souls of my people."
Who is Langston Hughes?
When buying stocks, this practice involved a buyer paying less than 10 percent of the stock price upfront to the broker, then paying the remainder of the stock over a period of months.
What is buying on margin?
What are tariffs?
This 1925 trial involved a head-on clash between the modernists, who supported teaching the theory of evolution, and the fundamentalists, who disagreed with the teaching of the theory.
What is the Scopes Trial?
The great American writers of the 1920s, including Willa Cather (GBR!), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and others, were collectively known as this.
What is the Lost Generation?
This civil rights leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association advocated for black pride and black support of black-run businesses in the United States.
Who is Marcus Garvey?