The Roaring Twenties Terms

Question 1

Warren G. Harding

Answer 1

29th president of the US

Question 2

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 2

30th president of the US

Question 3

James M. Cox

Answer 3

46th and 48th governor of Ohio

Question 4

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 4

32nd president of the US

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Andrew Mellon

Answer 5

a millionaire financier

Question 6

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 6

A US Navy oil reserve

Question 7

Albert Fall

Answer 7

A US senator from New Mexico

Question 8

John W. Davis

Answer 8

A US representative from west Virginia

Question 9

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 9

a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy

Question 10

Henry Ford

Answer 10

Perfected the assembly line and created the Model T

Question 11

Model T

Answer 11

a car invented by henry ford

Question 12

Moving Assembly Line

Answer 12

a line of factory workers and equipment

Question 13

Herbert Hoover

Answer 13

a political leader of the twentieth century

Question 14

Alfred E. Smith

Answer 14

an american statesman

Question 15

Nellie Tayloe Ross

Answer 15

an american politician

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Miriam “Ma” Ferguson

Answer 16

the first female governor of texas

Question 17

Flappers

Answer 17

a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself

Question 18

Red Scare

Answer 18

rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants

Question 19

Communism

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx

Question 20

Palmer Raids

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a series of raids constructed by the US Department of Justice

Question 21

Nicola Sacco

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an american anarchist who was convicted of murdering a guard

Question 22

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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an american anarchist who was convicted of murdering a guard

Question 23

ACLU

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non-profit organization whose stated mission is to defend and preserve individual rights

Question 24

National Origins Act of 1924

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a law that is severely restricted

Question 25

Eighteenth Amendment

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the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the US

Question 26

Prohibition

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the action of forbidding something

Question 27

Volstead Act

Answer 27

act by congress that enforced prohibition

Question 28

Al "Scarface" Capone

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a US ganster

Question 29

Twenty-first Amendment

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made alcohol legal

Question 30

Traditional

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part of a tradition

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Fundamentalism

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a form of religion

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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a canadian american evangelist and media celebrity

Question 33

John T. Scopes

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american legal case

Question 34

Scopes Trial

Answer 34

american case

Question 35

Great Migration of the 1920's

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movement of 5 million african americans

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NAACP

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a civil rights organization

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Marcus Garvey

Answer 37

a jamaican political leader

Question 38

LULAC

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civil rights organization in the US

Question 39

National Broadcasting Company

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an american commercial broadcast

Question 40

Columbia Broadcasting System

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an american commercial broadcast

Question 41

talkie "The Jazz Singer"

Answer 41

a movie with a soundtrack

Question 42

Charlie Chaplin

Answer 42

an english actor

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Douglas Fairbanks

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american actor

Question 44

american actor

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canadian american film actress

Question 45

George Herman Ruth

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an american professional baseball player

Question 46

Satchel Paige

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major league baseball pitcher

Question 47

Josh Gibson

Answer 47

american baseball catcher

Question 48

Gertrude Ederle:

Answer 48

an american competition swimmer

Question 49

Charles Lindbergh:

Answer 49

an american aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, an environmental activist

Question 50

Amelia Earhart

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First woman to fly across the pacific solo

Question 51

Sigmund Freud:

Answer 51

an austrian neurologist

Question 52

Roaring Twenties

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a time period

Question 53

Jazz Age

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a period in the 1920s ending with the Great Depression

Question 54

Innovation

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the action of innovating

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Edward "Duke" Ellington

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a jazz band leader

Question 56

Harlem Renaissance

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an african american cultural movement of the 1920s

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Langston Hughes;

Answer 57

an american poet

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Ernest Hemingway

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an american novelist

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Lost Generation

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the generation after WW1

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Expatriates

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a person who lives outside their native country

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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an american author known fro short stories

Question 62

Georgia O'Keeffe

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an american artist