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What do you know about consumers in the 1920’s?
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Prosperous Bought stuff on credit Bought stock on margin Thought it would last forever
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What did each of the three Presidents of the Twenties have in common politically?
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Republicans
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What was the typical foreign policy of the 20’s Presidents?
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Isolationism
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What was the typical Republican belief when it came to business in America?
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Laissez-faire
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What event brought to an end some of the extreme practices of the Red Scare?
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Sacco and Vanzetti Case
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What was a common hangout for people seeking a nightlife in the Twenties?
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Speakeasies
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The celebration of African- American art and music of the Twenties was known as the …
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Harlem Renaissance
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Capitol of crime and gangsters in America in the Twenties? (Not Xavier U.)
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Chicago
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What was a major criticism of Henry Ford?
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He changed the American culture and morals
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The Lost Generation refers to what group of Americans in the Twenties?
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Writers
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Women who challenged tradition American roles and values were often called…
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Flappers
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What change to the constitution had the effect of more organized crime?
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Prohibition The 18 th amendment The Volstead Act
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Teapot Dome scandal is most closely associated with whose Administration?
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Harding
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What state was Harding from?
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O-H-I-O
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The Scopes Trial of 1925 centered around what controversial issue in schools?
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Teaching evolutionism
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Nativists were Americans who believed our government should have stricter laws on issue?
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immigration
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What practice allowed for consumers to buy items in the Twenties that they could not afford?
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Credit or installment plan
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The fear that communists would take control of our government in the Twenties was known as the…
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Red Scare
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What anti-immigrant organization grew immensely in the 1920’s? (just for a couple of years)
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KKK
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What group of American workers faced the toughest economic stress in the 1920’s?
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farmers
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What did factory owners accuse striking workers and their leaders of being?
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communists
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The 1920’s were known as the Roaring Twenties as well as the…
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Jazz Age
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Who piloted the first solo trans-Atlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis?
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Charles Lindburgh
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Which American businessman is credited with first mass-producing the automobile?
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Henry Ford
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What new law of the Twenties proved to be too difficult to enforce?
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prohibition
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The Ford Model T could be purchased in any color you wanted… as long as you wanted…
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Black
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What was America’s Pastime beginning in the 1920’s?
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baseball
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Who was the last President of the 1920’s?
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Herbert Hoover
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What new style of music was founded in the city of New Orleans?
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Jazz
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