The 1920s

Question 1

Temperance movement:

Answer 1

Wanted to ban alcohol

Question 2

18 amendment :

Answer 2

Banned the sale, production, and consumption in the U.S in 1920

Question 3

Volstead act

Answer 3

Gave the federal government the power to enforce the 18th Amendment

Question 4

Speakeasies:

Answer 4

Bar selling alcohol illegally

Question 5

Bootlegging:

Answer 5

Ilegal manufacture and sell of alcohol

Question 6

Organized crimes:

Answer 6

Gangsters like Al Capone paid Off the cops to allow them to smuggle liquor

Question 7

21st amendment:

Answer 7

Undid the 18th amendment in 1933

Question 8

Fundamentalism:

Answer 8

Belief that every word in the Bible is true and holds all the answers

Question 9

John scopes:

Answer 9

• Taught Darwin’s theory about evolution and was arrested -

found guilty and fined for $100

Question 10

Clarence Darrow:

Answer 10

• Defense attorney
• represented scopes

Question 11

William J Bryan:

Answer 11

Religious fundamentalist (prosector)

Question 12

Henry ford:

Answer 12

Revolutionized the idea of producing cars

Question 13

Mass production:

Answer 13

• Rapid manufacture by machine of large numbers of identical products
• made goods cheaper
• higher standard of living

Question 14

Harlem Renaissance:

Answer 14

-An explosion of African American art, literature, and culture in the 1920s

Question 15

Blues :

Answer 15

• Rural, southern
• sung about all the suffering of being black in America

Question 16

Jazz:

Answer 16

• Urban, Northern
• allowed black musicians to show off their skills

Question 17

Louis Armstrong:

Answer 17

Jazz trumper

Question 18

Duke Ellington

Answer 18

Jazz band leader

Question 19

Bessie smith:

Answer 19

Blues / soul singer

Question 20

Langston Hughes:

Answer 20

Author and poet

Question 21

Zora Neale Hurston:

Answer 21

Female novelist

Question 22

Warren G. Harding:

Answer 22

• R from Ohio
• won election of 1920

Question 23

“Return to normalcy”

Answer 23

• No more war
• No more progressivism
• isolationism
• lassiez-faire

Question 24

Teapot dome scandal :

Answer 24

Harding buddies swindled valuable oil fields and sold them

Question 25

Calvin Coolidge:

Answer 25

• Vice President
• wanted the government to stay out of business

Question 26

Indian citizen act:

Answer 26

• Signed by Coolidge on June 2,1924

Question 27

Marcus Garvey:

Answer 27

• promoted a “back to Africa” movement
• “universal black nationalism” - blacks coming together as one nation
• went to jail for mail fraud, got deported

Question 28

Ida B. Wells:

Answer 28

African woman who fought for justice

Question 29

National origins act:

Answer 29

. Established a quota system to govern immigration from specific countries

Question 30

Sacco and Vanzetti:

Answer 30

• Italian immigrants (anarchists)
• charged with killing 2 men in Boston

Question 31

Palmer raids:

Answer 31

The series of raids in the 1920 against suspected radicals and communists