Jazz Age

Question 1

Capitalism

Answer 1

economic system based on private property and free enterprise

Question 2

Anarchist

Answer 2

someone who believes there should be no government

Question 3

Deport

Answer 3

to expel from a country

Question 4

Integration

Answer 4

whites and blacks living side by side

Question 5

Lease

Answer 5

to rent

Question 6

Laissez-Faire

Answer 6

a belief that government should have as little involvement in private life as possible

Question 7

recession

Answer 7

an economic downturn

Question 8

gross national product

Answer 8

the total value of all goods and services produced by a nation

Question 9

productivity

Answer 9

worker output

Question 10

installment buying

Answer 10

purchasing products by making small payments over time

Question 11

flapper

Answer 11

a carefree young woman of the 1920s

Question 12

mass media

Answer 12

form of communication that can reach millions of people

Question 13

expatriate

Answer 13

someone who chooses to live in another country

Question 14

prohibition

Answer 14

total ban on alcohol - 18th amendment

Question 15

nativisim

Answer 15

belief that naive born Americans are superior to foreigners

Question 16

quota system

Answer 16

an arrangement setting the number of immigrants from each country

Question 17

evolution

Answer 17

scientific theory that humans change over time

Question 18

Langston Hughes

Answer 18

Writer during the Harlem Renaissance

Question 19

sabotage

Question 20

communism

Answer 20

belief that all people should share ownership of property

Question 21

Marcus Garvey

Answer 21

African American leader, did not believe in integration, supported a Back to Africa movement

Question 22

expatriate

Answer 22

people who choose to live in another country

Question 23

Red Scare

Answer 23

fear of Communism

Question 24

Teapot Dome

Answer 24

political scandal during Harding’s presidency where the secretary of the Interior was found guilty of bribery and went to jail

Question 25

Kellog-Briand Pact

Answer 25

1928, called for outlying war

Question 26

nationalism

Question 27

Automobile Industry

Answer 27

4 million worked in the auto industry, Detroit, Ford, General Motors, more highways, more jobs, more industries, growth of suburbs

Question 28

Scandals of Harding Administration

Answer 28

Teapot Dome, Ohio Gang

Question 29

Harding and Coolidge and business

Answer 29

cut government spending, lowered income tax rates on wealthy and corporations, raised tariffs, overturned laws regulating child labor and women's wages

Question 30

Intolerance toward foreigners in the 20s

Question 31

Leaders of the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 31

Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Heale Hurston

Question 32

Groups that did not enjoy prosperity during the 20s

Answer 32

Farmers, railroad workers, coal miners, textile workers

Question 33

Scopes Trial

Answer 33

Trial about teaching evolution

Question 34

Fads of the 20s

Answer 34

Movies, Radio, listening to football and baseball, jazz music

Question 35

Noble Experiment

Question 36

what helped business and consumer spending in the 20s

Answer 36

electricity, advertising, installment buying

Question 37

Why did prohibition fail

Answer 37

Demand for alcohol led to illegal speakeasies and bootlegging

Question 38

Organized crime

Answer 38

Prohibition helped organized crime like Al Capone through bootlegging

Question 39

Quota system

Answer 39

A fixed number of immigrants allowed from each country each year. Limited annual immigration from a country to 3% of the country's population in the US in 1910. Favored Northern and Western Europe.

Question 40

Return to normalcy

Answer 40

A time before World War 1