Roaring Twenties Vocab

Question 1

Scientific view that all life evolved from simpler forms

Answer 1

Evolution Theory

Question 2

episode caused by Secretary of State Albert Fall’s leasing of oil rich public land to private companies for money and land

Answer 2

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 3

a wave of panic from fear of a Communist revolution

Answer 3

Red Scare

Question 4

Famous jazz musician of the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 4

Louis Armstrong

Question 5

Court case involving a science teacher from Tennessee who was convicted for teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

Answer 5

Scopes Monkey Trial

Question 6

Italian immigrants who were found guilty of robbery and murder and were executed

Answer 6

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 7

a new kind of music in the 1920’s that captured the carefree spirit of the times

Answer 7

Jazz

Question 8

Communications such as the radio, that reach a large audience.

Answer 8

mass media

Question 9

President of the U.S when Harding died whose famous slogan was, “the business of America is business.”

Answer 9

Calvin Coolidge

Question 10

illegal bars that sold alcohol to people during Prohibition

Answer 10

Speakeasies

Question 11

agreement signed by many nations who pledged not to go to war against each other except in self-defense

Answer 11

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 12

a flowering of African American artistic creativity in New York City in the 1920’s

Answer 12

Harlem Renaissance

Question 13

to buy something by making small monthly payments

Answer 13

installment buying

Question 14

Henry Ford’s cheap but sturdy car

Answer 14

Model T

Question 15

First person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 15

Charles Lindbergh

Question 16

People who smuggled liquor into the U.S and sold it illegally during Prohibition

Answer 16

Bootlegger

Question 17

People opposed to organized government

Answer 17

anarchist

Question 18

the banning of the sale, manufacturing and possession of alcohol

Answer 18

Prohibition

Question 19

Famous slogan of Warren G. Harding meaning that Americans wished to go back to conditions prior to World War I

Answer 19

Return to Normalcy

Question 20

a young woman who embraced the fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920’s

Answer 20

flapper

Question 21

Practice that allowed people to buy stock with a down payment of only 10% of the full value

Answer 21

buying stock on margin

Question 22

theory in which the government should stay out of big business and allow the economy to regulate itself

Answer 22

Laissez-faire

Question 23

Helped to popularize baseball by being the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season

Answer 23

Babe Ruth

Question 24

President of the 1920’s whose terms was known for many scandals.

Answer 24

Warren G. Harding

Question 25

Period in which the economy is doing well and stock prices are rising

Answer 25

Bull Market