Social studies vocab

Question 1

In may 1925 a Dayton, Tennessee, high school science teacher name john t. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in what became known as the scopes trial.

Answer 1

Scopes trial

Question 2

During World War I large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories. This movement called great migration.

Answer 2

Great migration

Question 3

In 1928 the United States and 14 other nations signed the Kellogg briand pact an agreement that outlawed war.

Answer 3

Kellogg briand act

Question 4

Anarchists are people opposed to organized government.

Answer 4

Anarchy

Question 5

A motion picture with sound

Answer 5

Talkie

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

19 amendment

Question 7

The transportation or importation into any state territory or possession of United States to delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of laws therefor is hearby prohibited.

Answer 7

21 amendment

Question 8

He produced poems plays and novels about African American life.

Answer 8

Langston Hughes

Question 9

Was a secretary of commerce and defeated democrat Alfred E smith in the 1928 election.

Answer 9

Herbert Hoover

Question 10

Was a governor of Massachusetts got picked as a running mate for warren Harding.

Answer 10

Calvin Coolidge

Question 11

The eighteenth amendment which outlawed the manufacture sale and transportation of achoholic beverages went into effect in 1920.

Answer 11

Prohibition

Question 12

He encouraged people to take price in their race.

Answer 12

Marcus Garvey

Question 13

A time of fear of communism.

Answer 13

The red scare

Question 14

She was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the southwest.

Answer 14

Georgia o keeffe

Question 15

A period of African American artistic accomplishment

Answer 15

Harlem renaissance

Question 16

Girls that cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave.

Answer 16

Flappers

Question 17

He was a very talented musician

Answer 17

Louis Armstrong

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Moving assembly line

Question 19

This act limited the number of immigrants allowed into the us.

Answer 19

The emergency quota act

Question 20

Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car nicknamed the tin Lizzie.

Answer 20

Model t

Question 21

The creator of ford automotives

Answer 21

Henry ford

Question 22

Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s thus became known as the lost generation.

Answer 22

Lost generation

Question 23

People who leave their home country to live elsewhere.

Answer 23

Expatriates

Question 24

Involved secretary of the interior Albert fall who accepted the large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies.

Answer 24

Teapot dome scandal