Roaring 20s/ Great Depression

Question 1

The 20s

Answer 1

A period of great change, prosperity, and tension (Era of great prosperity)

Question 2

Great Migration

Answer 2

Blacks move from the South to the Northern created “racial tension”

Question 3

Red Scare

Answer 3

A fear that was going to be a communist take-over of the American Government.

Question 4

18th Amemdant

Answer 4

“Noble Experiment” led by women’s Temperence union

Question 5

Volstead Act

Answer 5

closed all taverns, bars and saloons.

Question 6

Gangsters

Answer 6

ran illegal alcohol businesses

Question 7

Al Capone

Answer 7

Gangster in Chicago (crime greatly)

Question 8

Speakeasies

Answer 8

underground alcohol dance clubs

Question 9

Farmers

Answer 9

“moonshiners” rural areas made from homemade recipes

Question 10

Origin of Nascar

Answer 10

running from the law

Question 11

Consumerism

Answer 11

the acquisition of material goods beyond what is necessary

Question 12

Consumer society

Answer 12

things purchased on credit (buy now, pay later)

Question 13

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 13

First women right convention (official beginning of movement)

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Suffrage

Answer 14

The right to vote.

Question 15

Suffragettes

Answer 15

women activist

Question 16

Sexual Revolution

Answer 16

“New women”

Question 17

Birth Control Movement

Answer 17

(Margret Sanger) founder of planned parenthood

Question 18

Flappers

Answer 18

the unconventional new women who wore their hair short, skirts short, makeup & etc

Question 19

Cigarettes

Answer 19

Freedom torches

Question 20

Charles Darwin

Answer 20

The origin of the species

Question 21

Scopes Monkey Trail

Answer 21

God or Evolution taught in schools

Question 22

George Gershwin

Answer 22

Jazz Composer

Question 23

Loius Armstrong

Answer 23

Jazz Trumpeter

Question 24

Cotton Club

Answer 24

Most famous jazz club in Harlem NY

Question 25

Phonograph/Victrola

Answer 25

“Photograph records”

Question 26

Jack Dempsey

Answer 26

Boxing (heavyweight champion)

Question 27

Babe Ruth

Answer 27

“THE BABE” made more money than the president.

Question 28

WKDKA

Answer 28

Pittsburg- 1st radio station in America

Question 29

The Radio

Answer 29

new sources of communication (the great invention of the period)

Question 30

The Automobiles

Answer 30

gave Americans a sense of freedom an independence.

Question 31

Klu-Klux-Klan

Answer 31

a violent anti-black, Jewish, catholic and immigrant organization

Question 32

Detroit

Answer 32

auto capital of the world

Question 33

Breadlines/Souplines

Answer 33

major source to help (mostly churches)

Question 34

Lost Generation

Answer 34

Group who lived in Paris during the 20s

Question 35

Earnest Hemingway

Answer 35

“To whom the Bell toll” Farewell to arms

Question 36

Flaming cross

Answer 36

symbol

Question 37

Lucky Lindy

Answer 37

national hero

Question 38

W.E.B DU BOIS

Answer 38

co-founder of NAAACP

Question 39

Emergency Bank Act

Answer 39

National Bank holiday

Question 40

FDIC

Answer 40

Federal Deposit insurance corporation

Question 41

Fireside Chats

Answer 41

Roosevelt talked with the people over the radio

Question 42

Brain Trust

Answer 42

group of leading scholars/buisnessman

Question 43

New Deal

Answer 43

A set of federal government economic programs to get the country out of the depression centered around the four r’s.

Question 44

Social Security Program

Answer 44

set aside money for the peoples retirement.

Question 45

Great Plains

Answer 45

Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, etc.

Question 46

Okies

Answer 46

people who migrated to California on route 66

Question 47

Hobo

Answer 47

migratory worker or homeless vagabond