Terms
Women who wore loose fitting clothes, short hair and heavy make-up were called ___________.
Who were Flappers?
This writer focused on life during the 1920s, his most famous work was The Great Gatsby.
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The __________ ______________ was the time when millions of African Americans left the South and moved to the North and Midwest following World War I in hope of a better life and opportunity.
What was the Great Migration?
The two Italian immigrants who were known anarchists and were found guilty of killing two men during a robbery _________ and _________.
Who was Sacco and Vanzetti?
The _____ Amendment made alcohol illegal in the United States.
What was the 18th Amendment?
People who sold alcohol during Prohibition were called __________.
Who were bootleggers?
A talented jazz musician and pianist who led the house band at the Cotton Club was ____________.
Who was Duke Ellington?
The Red Scare was the fear of ____________ spreading through the United States.
What was communism?
He intentionally broke the law and taught the ideas of evolution to his high school students in 1925.
Who was John Scopes (the Scope Trail)?
Woodrow Wilson's Attorney General, A. Mitchell ________ , sent J. Edgar Hoover on a series of raids meant to round up radicals.
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
The time period in the United States when alcohol was illegal.
What was the Prohibition Era?
What is the cotton club?
The suburbs developed and grew as a result of the affordability of the ___________.
What was the automobile (Model T)?
He made the first transatlantic solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
The _______ Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and passed in the 1920s to allow women's suffrage.
What was the 19th Amendment?
The belief that native born Americans were superior to foreigners was ___________.
What was Nativism?
This Jazz musician was known for playing the trumpet.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
Which invention revolutionized communications across America, helped entertainers reach celebrity status and became a household item of the 1920s?
What was the radio?
This famous celebrity made baseball history during the 1920s hitting a career 714 home runs.
Who was George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Jr.?
This white supremacist group saw an increase in membership as a result of the 1920s social conflicts.
What was the KKK?
Establishments that sold alcohol during Prohibition were called ________.
What were speakeasies?
This poet combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots in his work. He wrote "I, Too, Sing America."
Who was Langston Hughes?
The name of the first talkie, the first movie with sound was ______________.
Who was The Jazz Singer?
This crime boss made money selling alcohol during prohibition.
Who was Al Capone?
This movement started at the turn of the century and grew in the 1920s within American protestant churches to defend the basic tenements of their beliefs. (We discussed this in the Scopes trial)
What was fundamentalism?