Scandal in which a cabinet member was leasing Navy oil reserves to private companies for low rates; he went to prison.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
100
This group of Americans were finally granted citizenship by the Citizenship Act of 1924.
Who are American Indians?
100
Type of work that is separated into stations where each person is responsible for one role; popularized by the automobile industry.
What is the assembly line?
100
Term for a fashionable women who had bobbed hair cuts and wore short dresses (they even showed the knees sometimes!)
What is a flapper?
200
Amendment that prohibited alcohol- was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
What is the 18th Amendment.
200
Widespread fear of Communism and anarchy in the U.S. due to the Russian Revolution; included public campaign to arrest or punish those accused
What is the Red Scare?
200
Federal law that limited the number of immigrants that could enter the U.S., primarily aimed at Southern and Eastern Europeans.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
200
Term for the creation of large amounts of standardized products (like automobiles) that were then available for purchase that allowed American economic output to grow at rates never seen before.
What is mass production?
200
Music movement popularized by musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington that that sparked its own age.
What is jazz?
300
President that ran on and promised a "Return to Normalcy".
Who is President Harding?
300
Trial that focused on the clash between traditionalism and modernism over the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
300
Author of "The Great Gatsby" which epitomized the 1920's.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
Industrialist responsible for founding the first motor company and to develop and use the assembly line technique.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
Cultural, social and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem; center for black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets and scholars.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
The movement that banned the sale of alcohol and led to the rise of organized crime.
What is Prohibition?
400
Attorney General that led raids to capture, arrest and deport suspected radical communists and anarchists.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
400
Term that refers to the movement of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North.
What is the Great Migration?
400
Widespread concept in the 1920's; term that meant Americans could purchase products without having the cash.
What is "buying-on-credit"?
400
Jamaican political leader who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Who is Marcus Garvey?
500
Presidents belief/foreign policy during the 1920's that the less involved the U.S. was in foreign affairs, the better.
What is Isolationism?
500
Trial for Italian-born American anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during an armed robbery; both adhered to the anarchist movement.
What is the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial?
500
Term that refers to the set of beliefs in controlling genetic qualities of humans through "selective breeding" and forced sterilization.
What is eugenics?
500
Era put an emphasis on this economic policy that kept the government from interfering in the free market; French for "Leave alone"
What is laissez-faire?
500
American aviator that made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.