Roaring Twenties
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- Beginning with World War I, the shirt of African American population was called
- The Great Migration
- Besides the right to vote, the Indian Citizenship Act, gave to Indians
- legal protection
- What type of music emerged from the Mississippi delta region?
- the blues
- A fashionable young lady of the 1920s was a
- flapper
- The process of returning to a peacetime economy is called
- demobilization
- What city was the center of African American achievement in the 1920s?
- Harlem
- A form of buying on credit was
- installment plan
- Many Fundamentalists disagreed with Charles Darwin's
- theory of evolution.
- The law passed by Congress to enforce the 18th Amendment was the
- Volstead Act.
- A fear of a communist revolution in the U.S. led to the
- Red Scare.
- Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway
- Early movie theaters charged admission of a nickel and were called
- nickelodeons
- "Father of the Blues"
- W.C. Handy
- Harlem Renaissance poet
- Langston Hughes
- The Model T was
- Ford's most famous car.
- The 1920s scandal involving Albert Fall and government oil fields was called
- Teapot Dome.
- Which amendment made the "transportaion, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages" illegal?
- 18th
- The purpose of the National Origins Quota Act was
- to limit immigration.
- Fear and hatred of foreigners was called
- xenophobia
- "America's Sweetheart"
- Mary Pickford
- In the 1920s, many young Americans moved out of the country to live, especially to France. They were called
- expatriates.
- Olympic gold medal winner in 1912
- Jim Thorpe
- The 19th Amendment gave the right to vote to which group?
- women
- A famous woman aviator was
- Amelia Earhart
- "Steamboat Willie"
- Mickey Mouse
- People who supported Prohibition were called
- drys
- An _________ wants to destroy all government.
- Anarchist
- Because this type of music was popular, the 1920s are often called the
- Jazz Age.
- What group of Americans most missed out on the prosperity of the 1920s?
- farmers
- To end Prohibition, which amendment was added to the Constitution?
- 21st
- Nations signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact agreed to outlaw
- war
- The Spirit of St. Louis was
- Lindbergh's plane
- Nations meetingin Washington agreed to limit the size of their
- navies
- Anarchists and immigrants convicted of murder and robbery, they were executed in the electric chair of Massachusetts.
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- Who was the Attorney General who ordered raids in immigrant neighborhoods?
- A. Mitchell Palmer
- Homerun hitter
- Babe Ruth
- A film with sound was called a
- talkie
- The first woman to swim the English Channel was
- Gertrude Ederle
- Jazz trumpeter known as "Satchmo"
- Louis Armstrong
- Author who captured the spirit of the Jazz Age
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Empress of the Blues"
- Bessie Smith
- Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic alone?
- Charles Lindbergh
- What happened to high school enrollment in the 1920s?
- dramatically increased
- Ohio President with many scandals in his administration
- Warren Harding
- Fear of another war led many countries to agree to limit their weapons which is called
- disarmament
- "The Tramp"
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