Roaring 20s

Question 1

19th amendment

Answer 1

• voting rights: the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex
• enforcement: Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation

Question 2

21st amendment

Answer 2

The eighteenth article of amendment to the constitution of the United States hereby repealed

Question 3

Langston Hughes

Answer 3

Somebody who produced poems, plays, and novel about African American life

Question 4

Marcus Garvey

Answer 4

Somebody who was a talented speaker that became one of the country’s most famous and controversial black leaders

Question 5

Red Scare

Answer 5

A time of fear of communist, or Reds

Question 6

Expatriates

Answer 6

People who leave their home country to live elsewhere

Question 7

Moving assembly line

Answer 7

This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another

Question 8

Model T

Answer 8

Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car called the Model T, nicknamed the Tin Lizzie

Question 9

Henry Ford

Answer 9

An inventor and business leader from Detroit. He built the Model T.

Question 10

Prohibition

Answer 10

Also known as the 18th amendment, outlawed the transportation of alcoholic beverages

Question 11

Louis Armstrong

Answer 11

A jazz musician known for his solo numbers

Question 12

Georgia O’Keefe

Answer 12

A famous artist known for her detailed paintings of flowers and the Southwest

Question 13

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 13

A period of African American artistic accomplishment

Question 14

Flappers

Answer 14

Flappers cut their hair short and wore short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave

Question 15

Scopes trial

Answer 15

In May 1925 a Dayton, Tennessee, High School science teacher named John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in what became known as the Scopes Trial

Question 16

Great Migration

Answer 16

During WWI large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in the northern factories

Question 17

Kellog Briand Act

Answer 17

In 1928 the United States and 14 other nations signed the Kellog-Briand Act, an agreement that outlawed war

Question 18

Anarchy

Answer 18

Anarchists are people opposed to organized government

Question 19

Talkies

Answer 19

Motion picture with sound

Question 20

Hoover

Answer 20

The republicans chose him as their nominee

Question 21

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 21

He was picked as Hardings running mate

Question 22

Lost generation

Answer 22

Writers who criticized American society in the 1920 thus became known as….

Question 23

Teapot dome scandal

Answer 23

Secretary of the interior Albert Fall who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private aol companies to control government oil reserves in elk hills California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming

Question 24

Emergency Quota Act

Answer 24

The act in 1921 limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country. It also favored immigrants from Western Europe.