1920's Terms

Question 0

Volstead act

Answer 0

Prohibition

Question 1

Prohibition

Answer 1

Law against alcohol

Question 2

Speakeasies

Answer 2

Secret bar

Question 3

Bootleggers

Answer 3

Transported illegal alcohol

Question 4

Flappers

Answer 4

Women who challenged the rules.

Question 5

Babe Ruth

Answer 5

National hero, baseball player, famous for hitting hundreds of home runs.

Question 6

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 6

First person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean by himself.

Question 7

Scopes monkey trial

Answer 7

“We evolved from monkeys” biology(John T. scopes) teacher broke the law and taught evolution instead of creationism.

Question 8

Evolution

Answer 8

Man/animals evolve over time the strong survive.

Question 9

Moonshine

Answer 9

Pure alcohol, very powerful/dangerous.

Question 10

NASCAR

Answer 10

Many ancestors of nascar drivers were bootleggers in the 1920’s

Question 11

Butler act

Answer 11

Law that said you could only teach creationism in schools(religion vs. science)

Question 12

Al Capone

Answer 12

Chicago mobster, saint valentines day massacre, they got him for not paying his taxes. Went insane.

Question 13

Drinking not illegal

Answer 13

In 1933 the 21st amendment abolished the 18th amendment and ended prohibition.

Question 14

Still

Answer 14

Made alcohol, cooked the moonshine

Question 15

Sufferage

Answer 15

To vote, gave women the right to vote.

Question 16

Charles Darwin

Answer 16

Invented evolution, wrote “the origin of species”