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1920's -- Duram -- History A

Question: Coolidge was a Republican President, what characterized his presidency?
Answer: He promoted big business and opposed social aid.

Question: What is a tariff?
Answer: A tax on imported goods.

Question: What were Russian communists called?
Answer: Bolshevik

Question: What was the most popular music during the 1920's?
Answer: Jazz

Question: What is a Model T?
Answer: The first automobile to be produced on an assembly line. It became a very affordable car for the average person.

Question: What is a Speakeasy?
Answer: An illegal bar or club.

Question: What is installment buying?
Answer: Buying on credit - caused many people to go into big debt.

Question: What are Isolationists?
Answer: Want to stand alone, limit treaties and trade.

Question: Harding was a Republican President. What is something that stood out about his administration?
Answer: His term as President was marked by corruption.

Question: What was the Charleston?
Answer: A popular dance.

Question: Who was Babe Ruth?
Answer: Famous baseball player

Question: What is immigration?
Answer: People coming to live in the US from other countries.

Question: Mickey Mouse...........
Answer: One of the first cartoon characters, star of Steamboat Willie

Question: Who were Sacco and Venzetti?
Answer: Italian immigrants who were wrongly convicted of murder and executed.  This is an example of the discrimination against immigrants.

Question: 18th Amendment ---
19th Amendment ---

Answer: Made alcohol illegal - Prohibition

Gave women the right to vote


Question: What are quotas (immigration)?
Answer: A system for limiting the number of immigrants who may enter a country.

Question: Who were Flappers?
Answer: Women in the 20's who drank alcohol, danced, smoked and dated.

Question: Hoover was a Republican President - what is his presidency known for?
Answer: He responded ineffectively to the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression.

Question: Who was Al Capone?
Answer: Bootlegger, gangster, controlled Speakeasies.  Basically controlled Chicago.

Question: Describe the Red Scare
Answer: US people were afraid Communists would try to take over the US. Anti-Communists laws were made.

Question: What is bootleg liquor? What were the people who sold it called?
Answer: Illegal liquor. People who made and sold it were called bootleggers.

Question: Describe the Protestant Work Ethic.
Answer: Work = Good, to not work = Bad. Handouts would cause people to become lazy.

Question: Describe the Harlem Renaisance.
Answer: Harlem was a neighborhood in New York, many Blacks came here from the south bringing their music, art, plays, fashion and more.

Question: What is the KKK? and who were they opposed to?
Answer: Ku Klux Klan -- Blacks, Jews, Catholics & immigrants

Question: Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Answer: Started as an Air Force pilot.  Became the first person to fly non-stop from the US to France.