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100
Which amendment outlawed alcohol?
What is the 18th Amendment.
100
Who was the president from 1921-1923?
Who is Warren G. Harding.
100
This caused major urban sprawl in the 1920s.
What is the automobile.
100
Where is Harlem?
What is New York City.
100
What is a flapper?
A woman who rejected traditional female roles. Dancer.
200
What is the name given to hidden nightclubs where people could go to drink during prohibition?
What is a speakeasy
200
What did the Teapot Dome scandal center around?
What is oil.
200
What made Charles Lindbergh famous?
First transatlantic flight.
200
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Celebration of African-American culture in literature and art.
200
Why did the economy grow rapidly in the United States during the 1920s?
Development of new consumer goods.
300
Who was the major organized crime boss of the prohibition era?
Who is Al Capone.
300
President Calvin Coolidge's stance on business was:
Low government involvement, free-enterprise system.
300
What change in buying habits happened during the 1920s?
Purchasing on credit. Installment plans.
300
He was the most famous writer of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes.
300
What did President Warren G. Harding mean when he called for "a return to normalcy"?
Return to isolationism and less government regulation of business.
400
How long did prohibition last?
What is 13 years.
400
This Attorney General launched a series of raids against anarchists, communists, and socialists.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer.
400
What is it called when women are treated differently than men for the same thing?
What is double standard.
400
A trumpet player who helped bring Jazz from New Orleans to Harlem.
Who is Louis Armstrong.
400
Why did the public react negatively towards organized labor in the 1920s?
Fear of communism.
500
What was the MAJOR problem in the fight to keep alcohol from U.S. citizens?
It was unenforceable.
500
Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact considered useless?
It provided no means to enforce the no-war agreement.
500
Who were the two Italian anarchists who were convicted of murder and executed with no evidence?
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti.
500
What event that occurred between 1910-1920, in the United States, helped begin the Harlem Renaissance?
The Great Migration.
500
What name did F. Scott Fitzgerald give to the 1920s?
The Jazz Age.