Vocabulary words

Question 1

Flappers

Answer 1

Women who cut their hair short and wore makeup and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to have

Question 2

Red Scare

Answer 2

A time of fear of Communists, or Reds

Question 3

Scopes trial

Answer 3

A science teacher who was put on trial for teaching evolution in what became known as the Scopes trail

Question 4

Henry Ford

Answer 4

An inventor and business leader who invented the Model T car

Question 5

Kellogg-Brian Pack

Answer 5

An agreement that outlawed war

Question 6

Emergency Quota Act

Answer 6

1921 limited the total number of immigrants allowed into the country

Question 7

Model T

Answer 7

Made by Henry Ford, it was sturdy and reliable car called Model T nicknamed the Tin Lizzie

Question 8

Moving Assembly Line

Answer 8

This system used conveyor belts to move parts to different groups of people

Question 9

21st amendment

Answer 9

It ended prohibition

Question 10

19th amendment

Answer 10

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation

Question 11

Great migration

Answer 11

African Americans leaving the South to take jobs in northern factories

Question 12

Talkie

Answer 12

Motion picture with sound

Question 13

Anarchy

Answer 13

Are people opposed to organized government

Question 14

Herbert Hoover

Answer 14

He was secretary of commerce

Question 15

Marcus Garvey

Answer 15

Encouraged black people around the world to express pride in their culture

Question 16

Lost Generation

Answer 16

Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s

Question 17

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 17

A period of African American artistic accomplishment

Question 18

Expatriates

Answer 18

People who leave their home country to live elsewhere

Question 19

Langston Hughes

Answer 19

Harlem Renaissance writer, he produced poems, plays, and novels

Question 20

Georgia O’Keefe

Answer 20

Was well known for her detailed paintings of flowers and of the Southwest

Question 21

Coolidge

Answer 21

Warren G. Harding’s running group. Also he was governor of Massachusetts.

Question 22

Prohibition

Answer 22

Outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages

Question 23

Louis Armstrong

Answer 23

Mass musician that experimented with various sounds and rhythms to creat a new kind of music

Question 24

Teapot Dome Scandle

Answer 24

This scandal 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.