Unit 6: The 1920s

Question 1

Bootlegging

Answer 1

a person who smuggled alcoholic beverages into the United States during Prohibition

Question 2

Buying on credit

Answer 2

the practice of paying a portion up front and then paying the rest in installments, usually done monthly

Question 3

buying on margin

Answer 3

the purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest

Question 4

First Red Scare

Answer 4

the result of Communism and the fear of the US that there would be worldwide Communist revolution

Question 5

flappers

Answer 5

one of the free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920s.

Question 6

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 6

a flowering of African-American artistic creativity during the 1920s, centered in the Harlem community of New York City

Question 7

immigration quotas

Answer 7

set in place a limit on immigration

Question 8

Jazz Age

Answer 8

period during the 1920s when jazz music and dance styles rapidly grew in popularity in the US

Question 9

organized crime

Answer 9

highly centralized businesses that are run by criminals to engage in illegal activities

Question 10

Palmer Raids

Answer 10

raids conducted by the government in an effort to hunt down communists and anarchists

Question 11

overproduction

Answer 11

producing more of a product than is wanted and/or needed

Question 12

speculation

Answer 12

an involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit

Question 13

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Answer 13

Black Tuesday; investors panicked and sold everything and many who had invested lost everything; signaled the beginning of the Great Depression