1920s Jeopardy
1920s people
President from considered the worst ever by historians
Warren G. Harding
The man who led the 1920s Black Pride Movement and founded the UNIA-wanted blacks to return to Africa
Marcus Garvey
Famous black poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
The women of the 1920s who wore shorter skirts, shorter hair, smoked and danced wildly to Jazz
Flappers
Nickname for the People who smuggled alcohol illegally
Bootleggers
Famous 1920s mafia Chicago gangster who ran a multi- million dollar alcohol bootlegging industry
Al Capone- “Scarface”
The leader of the Untouchables who brought down the famous mafia Chicago gangster
Elliot Ness
The young pilot who was the first fly across the Atlantic ocean in his “Spirit of St. Louis.”
Charles Lindbergh
The man who founded the most profitable automaker in the world during the 20s.
Henry Ford
Famous New York Yankees baseball player of the 1920s- hit 61 home runs in one season
Babe Ruth
People who believed that society should not have a government
Anarchists
Co-founder of the NAACP who fought against the lynching of the KKK enemies in the South
William E. Dubois
Marcus Garvey’s ideas of black separatism contrasted of which 2 men who sought for African Americans to stay and fight for integration rather than separate?
William E. Dubois
Booker T. Washington
The Attorney General of the United States who conducted many raids on socialist and anarchist headquarters across the USA
A. Mitchell Palmer
He was convicted of teaching evolution in Dayton, Tenn. and fined $100
John T. Scopes
The racist judge from Massachusetts who ordered the execution of Saco and Vanzetti
Judge Webster Thayer
The Supreme Court judge who supported the rights of socialists, communists and anarchists
Justice Charles Evans Hughes
This constitutional amendment that Prohibited the sale, distribution, and trafficking of alcoholic beverages. the ________th amendment.(____________ _______)
18 th, (Prohibition)
The great killing with Tommy Guns of Al Capone’s rival gangsters in Chicago by men disguised as police officers
St Valentines Day Massacre
This constitutional amendment gave women’s right to vote (suffrage)______th amendment
19th
This law ended prohibition in 1933._______th amendment
21 st
This consumer buying method allowed many Americans to buy now and pay later
Credit-installment buying
Scandal involving the President’s Secretary of Interior and a bribe.______________ Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal
During this case a man was falsely tried and convicted of murder because he was an anarchist and an immigrant.
The Saco-Vanzetti Trial
The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as a rebirth of _______________culture, arts and music.
Black culture
What was the name of the new and popular music of the 1920s?______________
Jazz
The first radio station of the United States
KDKA radio Pittsburgh
The first feature-length film to feature “talkie” sound was _____________________ _____
The Jazz Singer
The 1920s are sometimes called the “________________20s” because an incredible amount of __________________in society (socially and consumerism) occurred.
The 1920s are sometimes called the “Roaring 20s” because an incredible amount of change in society (socially and consumerism) occurred
Why was Prohibition so difficult to enforce-especially in chicago?________________ _______________________ ____________________
1. Corruption- police, courts, people paid off-Capone basically ran the city 2. The law was so unpopular and many people broke it
The “Enemies of the Klan”?
the “Enemies” of the Klan Catholics, Jews, blacks, immigrants, Asians, Mexicans, drug dealers, “wild women” (flappers) and the Catholic Pope
. In the 1920s, the Saco and Vanzetti Case, the Red Scare and the activities of the KKK all represented threats to ________________ of beliefs and racism.
Diversity, tolerance, freedom