1920s

Question 1

Consumerism

Answer 1

Protection or promotion of the interests of consumers

Question 2

Lynching

Answer 2

a mob killing someone, esp by hanging, for an alleged offence with or without a legal trial

Question 3

Palmer Raids

Answer 3

Part of Red Scare. Raids conducted by A Mitchell Palmer (US Attorney General) to root out communists in US

Question 4

Red Scare

Answer 4

fear of communism spreading in US. Also, employers often accused employees on strike to be communists.

Question 5

Speculation

Answer 5

Purchasing an asset in hopes it will be more valuable in the near future.

Question 6

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 6

African-American artistic boom centered in Harlem, New York.

Question 7

Nativism

Answer 7

Favoring interests of native-born people over foreign-born people

Question 8

Flapper

Answer 8

Free thinking women who embraced new fashions + urban attitudes of 1920’s

Question 9

Commodity

Answer 9

anything that can be bought or sold

Question 10

Installment Buying

Answer 10

You buy something and can use it right away, but you have to make regular payments with interest until you pay it off.

Question 11

Al Capone

Answer 11

American gangster, sold alcohol during Prohibition, made lots of $$, sentenced for tax evasion

Question 12

Langston Hughes

Answer 12

African-American poet during Harlem Renaissance

Question 13

John T. Scopes

Answer 13

Teacher in Tennessee charged with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited teaching of evolution. He was found guilty and fined $100. AKA Scopes Trial / Monkey Trial. He purposefully challenged the law.

Question 14

Why was the Prohibition a failure?

Answer 14

The gov. failed to allocate enough $ and federal agents to enforce it

Question 15

Conservative reaction to liberal modernism?

Answer 15

red scare, promoted prohibition, promoted strict Christianity, allowed alcohol again to stimulate economy