History vocab

Question 1

19th Amendment (1920)

Answer 1

Guaranteed women the constitutional right to vote

Question 2

Lost Generation

Answer 2

Literary trend that rejected desire for material wealth

Question 3

Tin Pan Alley

Answer 3

A section of New York City where song-writing and musical ideas mixed together to form
American popular music (Ex. Blues, jazz, & ragtime)

Question 4

Jazz

Answer 4

A popular form of music. Famous jazz composers include Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington

Question 5

The Harlem Renaissance

Answer 5

Period of African-American cultural creativity in music, art, and literature during the 1920s,
centered in Harlem (Ex. Poet Langston Hughes)

Question 6

“Return to Normalcy”

Answer 6

Campaign theme of Warren Harding during the election of 1920 it reduced America’s emphasis
on foreign policy and instead focused on business production and prosperity at home

Question 7

Flappers

Answer 7

Carefree young women with short, “bobbed” hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper
symbolized the new “liberated” woman of the 1920s

Question 8

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 8

Symbol of government corruption; government oil reserves were secretly leased to oil companies
in exchange for financial compensation (Harding)

Question 9

Henry Ford

Answer 9

Automobile manufacturer who created the Model T and began to mass-produce the automobile.

Question 10

Assembly Line

Answer 10

Allowed workers to remain in one place and master one repetitive action, maximizing output

Question 11

Speakeasies

Answer 11

An illegal bar where drinks were sold, during the time of prohibition. People literally had to
speak easy so they were not caught drinking alcohol by the police

Question 12

18th Amendment (1919; repealed in 1933)

Answer 12

18th Amendment (1919; repealed in 1933)

Question 13

Bootleggers

Answer 13

Smugglers of illegal alcohol during the prohibition era

Question 14

Religious Fundamentalism

Answer 14

Religious movement whose objectives are to return to the foundations of the faith and to
influence state policy

Question 15

Red Scare

Answer 15

Fear that Communists were going to take over the US in the 1920s

Question 16

Marcus Garvey

Answer 16

African American activist who advocated that all African Americans should be liberated and
return to Africa

Question 17

Eugenics

Answer 17

Pseudo-scientific belief that the human race could improve through selective breeding

Question 18

Installment Plan

Answer 18

Time-payment plan; consumer culture buying on credit

Question 19

Gangster

Answer 19

A member of a gang of criminals (Ex. Al Capone)

Question 20

Ku Klux Klan (Knights of the Invisible Empire)

Answer 20

Conservative organization that opposed everything that was not White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
(WASP)