General Information
Identify the method Americans used to buy things they cannot afford.
They borrowed money (credit).
The sharecropping system was centered on these cash crops: (name two)
Cotton, tobacco, rice, or sugar
The extension of an automobile seat that accommodates the head and neck. Invented in 1921.
Headrest
To increase in importance, popularity, or esteem / to experience a sudden rapid growth and expansion usually with an increase in prices
Boom
New forms of entertainment that emerged in this era include...
cinema, radio, and jazz music
Name one US president from the 1920s.
Any of the following:
* Warren Harding
* Calvin Coolidge
* Herbert Hoover
In the 1920s, this led to a fall in the value of crops.
Overproduction
Invented in 1920, this was originally borne out of addressing cuts from kitchen work
Band aid
The process by which more and more people leave the countryside to live in towns and cities
Urbanization
The pandemic that spread after World War 1, brought on primarily by soldiers returning home from the battlefronts
Influenza / flu
Another term for 1920s era America, this covered the time when alcohol/liquor production and consumption was banned.
Prohibition era
A hate group which aimed to influence social and political conditions in the US, targeting black people
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
In 1922, this was discovered as the substance secreted from the pancreas to help utilize body sugar. It helped manage diabetes symptoms.
Insulin
The process of developing industries in a country, transforming a mainly farming society into a manufacturing economy
Industrialization
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920.
19th Amendment
The event that ended the Roaring Twenties.
The 1929 stock market crash
A researcher who devoted his time improving agricultural practices for black farmers
George Washington Carver
Invented in 1923, this breakthrough made it possible for us to store sea and canned foods for lengthy days without getting the spoilt or losing taste and nutritional value
Frozen food
The theory that an increasing consumption of goods is economically desirable
Consumerism
America joined World War 1 in April of this year due to German agitation in Mexico and America having its merchant ships sunk by German U-boats (submarines)
1917
The right women earned in 1920.
The right to vote / suffrage
This policy, which enforced racial segregation, contributed to systemic inequality by restricting Black communities' access to land and resources.
Jim Crow laws
Discovered in 1928, this helped in treatment of serious illnesses like gonorrhea, bacterial endocarditis, syphilis, pneumococcal pneumonia, and meningitis.
Penicillin
Production of goods in considerable quantities, usually by machinery
Mass production
The Roaring Twenties ended with the event from the answer in (400) General Information, and ushered in a period of economic downturn starting in 1929, known as the...
Great Depression