Roaring Twenties

Alcohol in America

100

production, sale, and transportation of alcohol was made illegal

Prohibition

200

the coordinated time that was celebrated by Americans prior to 1900, often commenced at noon and involved the consumption of things like apple cider

Grog Time

300

this group would say

passing a law against a 'sin' will not cause the populace to not sin

Civil Libertarians

400

group would say "workers are coming to work intoxicated, they are a liability to the workplace

Industrialists

500

Society can only be reformed with the blessings and leadership of government, so goes the same with Prohibition

Progressive reformers

Lets Go Shopping

100

 the belief that the nation's economy gets better when more goods are sold

Consumerism

200

Ability to make a purchase and pay over time 

Installment buying

300

This company promoted a baking product that is commonly used for baked goods, rhyming with flowers, 

Onward (flour)

400

This commerical promoted the use of a cleaning agent, this product was called

Flash cleaner

500

You pay 1500 for an item over 12 months.  There is a 8 percent finance charge.  The final amount due is...

1680

Great Migration

100

This is considered a positive reason to move

What is a pull factor

200

Many laws were passed that allowed for segregation of public facilities

Jim Crow Laws

300

The South continued with segregation to combat the changes of Civil War, the change from the Civil War was called

Reconstruction

400

What two states led the nation in lynchings 

Georgia and Mississippi

500

Jacob Lawrence,  well known artist from Atlantic City, got his work started by the use of a government program called the 

WPA (WORKS PROGRESS ADMIN)

Organized Crime

100

Illegal bars

Speakeasies

200

when groups of people plan and work together to gain money in an illegal way

Organized Crime

300

homemade whisky, that is made illegally and usually has a very high alcohol content

Moonshine

400

Smuggled alcohol into the country

Rumrunners

500

President who was actually involved in a scandal involving alcohol

Warren G Harding

Economics

100

the belief that the government should not interfere in the economy of a nation in any way

Laissez-faire economics

200

President who supported the idea of laissez faire economics

Calvin Coolidge

300

these two systems compete for relevance, one promotes the idea of indivdualism and property rights, while the other promotes the government controlling all of the resources of the economy

Communism/Capitalism

400

 a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies

Socialism

500

the panic caused by fear of socialism and communism in the United States

Red Scare