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Changing Society
The Jazz Age
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100
The last pro-business president of the Roaring 20's who defeated a catholic candidate to win.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
100
Native Americans were granted this right in 1924.
What was citizenship?
100
This was a time of rebirth for African American culture associated with an area in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
100
She is one of the most famous artists in American history. Her detailed paintings of flowers, skulls, and landscapes are still celebrated today.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
100
The U.S. economy suffered an economic downturn (bad economy) after this major global event.
What was WWI?
200
Warren G. Harding's campaign strategy was based on a promise make America prosper. This campaign slogan helped him win the election.
What is "a return to normalcy"?
200
This era caused more government corruption, as local police and politicians took bribes from gangsters to ignore the movement and sale of alcohol.
What was prohibition?
200
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein were some of the most famous authors of these expatriates who criticized America.
Who were the Lost Generation?
200
This author wrote many poems during the Harlem Renaissance.
Who was Langston Hughes?
200
This act caused immigration to decrease because it limited the number of immigrants allowed into America.
What was the Emergency Quota Act?
300
Some say this scandal caused Warren G. Harding's heart attack. It also undermined America's faith in government.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
300
Fear of Communist infiltration into America after the Russian Revolution.
What was the RED SCARE?
300
This innovation is taken for granted today, but it revolutionized the film industry. The Jazz Singer was the first.
What is a talkie?
300
These women were known to chew tobacco and challenge traditional ideals.
Who were the flappers?
300
A system of conveyor belts to move parts to different groups of workers.
What is the moving assembly line?
400
The president in office when the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed declaring war illegal.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
400
The goal of his black nationalist movement was for African Americans to have their own businesses and communities.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
400
This trumpeter was famous for inventing the jazz solo.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
400
This inventor revolutionized the automobile industry.
Who was Henry Ford?
400
This signaled the end of Prohibition.
What was the Twenty-first Amendment?
500
This president was considered more pro-business than his predecessor who died of a heart attack.
Who was Calvin Coolidge?
500
This was a conflict about the fundamentalist beliefs and scientific ideals about evolution.
What was the Scopes Trial?
500
When a person moves away from their home country to live or work.
What is an expatriate?
500
This racist group came back during the Roaring 20's to terrorize African Americans and harass Jews, Catholics, and other groups.
What was the Ku Klux Klan? or the KKK?
500
The Model T was sometimes called by this nickname.
What is the TIN LIZZIE?