Culture
The black bottom, charleston, the tango
What were dances of the 20s?
This happened in November of 1920 which caused the Great Depression.
What was the stock market crash?
Black Tuesday
The stock market crash
Rebellious women who smoked, danced, and went against tradition were called this.
What were flappers?
Banning the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the 1920s
What was prohibition?
speakeasies and dance halls
Where did people hang out to drink and dance?
Buying on margin buy borrowing money to invest in stocks.
What was the cause for the stock market crash?
November 11, 1918, at 11:00 a.m.
When did World War One end?
People could afford cars, houses, appliances, and other luxuries.
The prosperity of the 20s was based on people buying on credit.
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover
Who were Republican presidents in the 1920s?
What was jazz?
Buying on credit
How did many people buy things for the first time?
Held in the Palace of Versailles near Paris, France
What was the Paris Peace Conference?
The great noble experiment.
What was prohibition called?
The US Senate rejected this reflecting Americans' desire not to get involved in another European war.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
Tight short skirts and frills gave this name to the women who wore them.
Who were flappers?
Model T Ford
What was a car that many people could afford because it was mass-produced on an assembly line?
1928 he was elected President and is often blamed for not doing enough to help people during the Great Depression.
Who was Hoover?
What did many women do for the first time during the war?
The belief that people should not get help from the government but instead pull themselves up.
What was "rugged individualism?"
Illegal alcoholic drinks were transported by them.
Who were bootleggers?
What was World War One?
In 1919, women got the right to this.
When did women get the right to vote?
In the 1920s Blacks in the South migrated to the cities of the North.
What was the Great Migration?
Teapot Dome
What was a scandal in the 1920s involving the leasing of US oil reserves?