1920's Unit Vocabulary

Question 1

This pact attempted to outlaw war

Answer 1

Kellog-Briand Pact

Question 2

Opponents of prohibition

Answer 2

wets

Question 3

People who advocated prohibiting alcohol referred to it as the _____

Answer 3

“noble experiment”

Question 4

Prohibition encouraged this type of crime

Answer 4

organized crime

Question 5

what was a conference that attempted to prevent an arms race war after WW1?

Answer 5

Washington naval disarmament

Question 6

This African American organization opposed to the KKK?

Answer 6

NAACP

Question 7

Another form of buying on credit in which for a in which for a small down payment one could purchase stocks in a company

Answer 7

Buying in margin

Question 8

Last name of a man who first successfully flew non-stop across the Atlantic ocean. Seen as an american hero.

Answer 8

Lindbergh

Question 9

Group of friends of Harding’s who would help to bring scandal to his administration.

Answer 9

Ohio gang

Question 10

Type of buying that allows a consumer to make a small down payment on a consumer good and then pay off the rest in regular monthly payments.

Answer 10

installment

Question 11

Advocates of prohibition

Answer 11

drys

Question 12

Last name of the man who would directly succeed Harding as president.

Answer 12

Coolidge

Question 13

The belief that every word in the bible was the literal truth

Answer 13

fundamentalism

Question 14

The Yankees baseball hero who hit more home runs than anyone ever before?

Answer 14

Babe Ruth

Question 15

Last name of the man elected president of the US in 1920?

Answer 15

Harding

Question 16

Last name of president Harding’s Secretary of the Treasury?

Answer 16

mellon

Question 17

Young woman of the 1920’s who rejected Victorian morality. They wore their hair short, drank and smoked.

Answer 17

flapper

Question 18

The name of the scandal that was the worst scandal of Harding’s presidency.

Answer 18

teapot scandal

Question 19

The name of the first commercial radio station in Pittsburgh?

Answer 19

KDKA

Question 20

This act officially enforced the amendment that forbade the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcohol.

Answer 20

Volstead act

Question 21

This plan arranged US loans to Germany so she could make her reparation payments.

Answer 21

Dawes plan

Question 22

The rapid manufacture of large numbers of identical products.

Answer 22

mass production

Question 23

Last name of president Harding’s Secretary of Commerce?

Answer 23

Hoover

Question 24

What forbade the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol anywhere in the US.

Answer 24

18th amendment

Question 25

Group formed in the south during Reconstruction to terrorize African Americans who sought to vote

Answer 25

Ku Klux Klan

Question 26

A time period that saw a flood of new, affordable goods that became available to the public.

Answer 26

consumer revolution

Question 27

This term means to emphasize science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion

Answer 27

modernism

Question 28

They sold illegal alcohol to consumers

Answer 28

bootleggers

Question 29

A relatively new method of improving efficiency, in which experts looked at every step of the manufacturing process to find ways to reduce time and cost

Answer 29

scientific management

Question 30

Last name of the popular silent film star who played the little tramp

Answer 30

Chaplin

Question 31

Fundamentalism and modernism clash in this famous trial

Answer 31

scopes trial

Question 32

This car was reliable one the average american could afford

Answer 32

model t

Question 33

This type of stock market represents a period of rising stock prices

Answer 33

bull market

Question 34

Last name o the famous car maker who introduced a series of methods and ideas that revolutionized production, wages, working conditions, and daily life.

Answer 34

ford