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Question Answer Key People-100 This famous New York Yankee was nicknamed the “Sultan of Swat”. Who was Babe Ruth?
Question Answer Key People-200 One of the greatest heroes of the 1920s was this aviator. Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Question Answer Key People-300 Popular movie star of the 1920s who only starred in silent movies. Who was Charlie Chaplin?
Question Answer Key People-400 One of the best-known poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Who was Langston Hughes?
Question Answer Key People-500 This famous female tennis player won 7 Women’s Tennis Championships in the 1920s. Who was Helen Wills?
Question Answer Practice that allows people to buy stock with a down payment of a portion of the full value. What is on margin? Vocabulary-100
Question Answer Vocabulary-200 The United States banned the sale of alcohol during this movement. What was Prohibition?
Question Answer Vocabulary-300 Term used to explain a slumping economy. What is a recession?
Question Answer Vocabulary-400 A term used to explain the stock market when prices are rising at a rapid rate. What is a bull market?
Question Answer Vocabulary- 500 Projects built by the government for public use. What are Public Works?
Question Answer Key Events-100 Name given to Tuesday October 29, What is “Black Tuesday”?
Question Answer Key Events- 200 Fear that communists were going to overthrow the United States government. What is the Red Scare?
Question Answer Key Events- 300 This law was passed to limit the amount of immigrants from different countries entering the United States during the Red Scare. What was the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?.
Question Answer Key Events- 400 Trial where Darwin’s theories being taught in school was questioned. What was the Scopes Trial?
Question Answer Key Events- 500 The last names of the two immigrants put on trial for theft and murder. These two individuals became the symbol for the way immigrants were treated during the Red Scare. Who was Sacco and Vanzetti?
Question Answer Political Events- 100 This president was elected in 1920 and later died of a heart attack while in office. Who was Warren Harding?
Question Answer Political Events-200 During the mid 1920s the United States economy was very successful while this President was in office. This period of time was known as “________” Prosperity. Who was Calvin Coolidge?
Question Answer Political Events-300 This pact was signed and it outlawed war. What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Question Answer Political Events-400 Nickname given to areas where people lived in poverty following the crash of the stock market. These areas were named after the president who was in office when the market crashed. What were Hoovervilles?
Question Answer Political Events- 500 Because of this scandal, Secretary of Interior Albert Fall became the first cabinet offiical ever sent to prison. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Question Answer Misc.-100 This amendment gave women the right to vote. What is the 19 th Amendment?
Question Answer Misc.-200 This amendment banned the sale of alcohol. What is the 18 th Amendment?
Question Answer Misc Nickname given to alcohol smugglers who sometimes hid bottles of liquor in their boots. What are bootleggers?
Question Answer Misc This group was given this nickname, because it helped to gain bonuses for veterans. Who were the Bonus Army?
Question Answer Misc.-500 This amendment repealed the ban on the production and consumption of alcohol. What is the 21 st Amendment?
Question Answer Final Jeopardy This novelist influenced many writers in the 1920s with many of his novels including, “The Sun also Rises”. Who was Ernest Hemingway?