Roaring 20's Vocab.

Question 1

Kellogg- Briand Pact

Answer 1

An agreement that outlawed war

Question 2

Anarchists

Answer 2

Are people that opposed to organized government

Question 3

Talkies

Answer 3

Motion pictures with sound

Question 4

Herbert Hoover

Answer 4

He was president Coolidge’s secretary of commerce

Question 5

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 5

He was the governor of Massachusetts, and was also, Warren G. Harding’s running mate.

Question 6

Red scare

Answer 6

A time of fear of communists

Question 7

Georgia O’Keefe

Answer 7

Famous artist with unique paintings

Question 8

Harlem renaissance

Answer 8

A period of artistic achievement during the 1920s

Question 9

Flappers

Answer 9

Young women who challenged traditional ideas of women hood in the 1920s

Question 10

Scopes trial

Answer 10

Science teacher tries to teach evolution but is put to trial

Question 11

Great migration

Answer 11

Large numbers of African Americans from the south move to the north

Question 12

19th amendment

Answer 12

Women have the right to vote

Question 13

21at amendment

Answer 13

18th amendment repealed meaning alcohol is legal

Question 14

Langston Hughes

Answer 14

An African American who wrote poems, plays, and novels

Question 15

Marcus Garvey

Answer 15

Jamaican born talented speaker who tried to make an independent economy

Question 16

Lost generation

Answer 16

Writers who criticized American society

Question 17

Louis Armstrong

Answer 17

He was a jazz musician

Question 18

Expatriates

Answer 18

People who leave their home country to live elsewhere

Question 19

Moving assembly line

Answer 19

This system used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another

Question 20

Emergency Quota Act

Answer 20

It limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country

Question 21

Model T

Answer 21

A sturdy and reliable car built by Henry Ford

Question 22

Henry Ford

Answer 22

An inventor and business leader from Detroit

Question 23

Prohibition

Answer 23

The eighteenth amendment which outlawed the manufacture sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages went into effect in 1920. Support for prohibition was strongest in rural areas while opposition was strongest in cities.

Question 24

Teapot Dome scandal

Answer 24

It involved secretary of the interior Albert Fall, who accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies in exchange Fall allowed the companies to control government oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and teapot Dome, Wyoming.