Social Studies Vocabulary

Question 1

Coolidge

Answer 1

Warren G. Harding’s running mate. Also he was the governor of Massachusetts

Question 2

Lost Generation

Answer 2

Writers who criticized Americans society in the 1920’s thus became known as the Lost Generation

Question 3

Teapot Dome Scandle

Answer 3

This scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies. In exchange, Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming

Question 4

Louis Armstrong

Answer 4

Jazz musician that experimented with various sounds and rhythms to create a new kind of music

Question 5

19th amendment

Answer 5

1- The right of the 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

2- Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation

Question 6

21st Amendment

Answer 6

1- The eighteenth article of amendment to the constitution of the United States is hereby repealed

2- the transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States for delivery or therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, prohibited

Question 7

Langston Hughes

Answer 7

He was A Harlem Renaissance writer that produced poems and plays.

Question 8

Marcus Garvey

Answer 8

He encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture

Question 9

Red Scare

Answer 9

A time of fear of Communists or Reds

Question 10

Georgia O’ Keefe

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 11

A period of African American artistic accomplishment

Question 12

Flapper

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Scopes Trial

Answer 13

In May, 1915 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 14

Great Migration

Answer 14

During War World 1 large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories

Question 15

Kellogg-Briand Act

Answer 15

In 1928 the United States and 14 other Nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact an agreement that outlawed war

Question 16

Anarchy

Answer 16

People opposed to organized government

Question 17

Talkies

Answer 17

This was a motion picture with sound

Question 18

Expatriate

Answer 18

People who leave their home country to live elsewhere

Question 19

Moving Assembly Line

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Emergency Quota Act

Answer 20

Act of 1921 limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country

Question 21

Model T

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Henry Ford

Answer 22

Henry Ford, an inventor and business leader from Detroit

Question 23

Prohibition

Answer 23

Prohibition Act outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages