Roaring Twenties

Roaring Twenties

Question 1 - 10 • period of upswing in stock prices, usually precedes a stock market crash.

Answer 1 – 10 • Bull Market

Question 1 - 20 • To buy many of the new household appliances coming out in the twenties, many people used this to afford the additional expenses.

Answer 1 – 20 • Installment Plan/Credit

Question 1 - 30 • Republican president who supported big business, was anti-regulation, and died of a stroke in his third year in the white house.

Answer 1 – 30 • Warren G. Harding

Question 1 - 40 • period of decline in stock prices, usually lasts up to 18 months.

Answer 1 – 40 • Bear Market

Question 1 - 50 • Name three causes of the 1929 stock market crash

Answer 1 – 50 • Speculation, Struggling Agricultural Sector, Manufacturing declined, Unemployment, low wages, Dropping stock prices, over reliance on credit, banks closing

Question 2 - 10 • Legal contest that expsed the widening cultural rift between religion and modern science.

Answer 2 – 10 • Scopes Trial

Question 2 - 20 • New women who bobbed their hair, wore shorter dresses, drank, and danced. Enjoyed dating men casually.

Answer 2 – 20 • Flapper

Question 2 - 30 • Someone who supported creationism, prohibition, and conservative moral values.

Answer 2 – 30 • Traditionalist/Fundamentalist

Question 2 - 40 • Why were many people pushed from rural areas to the cities in the 1920’s?

Answer 2 – 40 • Debt, low agricultural prices

Question 2 - 50 • Someone who supported Darwin’s theory of evolution, believing that science can show how nature works.

Answer 2 – 50 • Modernist

Question 3 - 10 • the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism.

Answer 3 – 10 • The Red Scare

Question 3 - 20 • These two men were executed for murder and involvement in a robbery. Many suspected they were falsely accused because of their political beliefs.

Answer 3 – 20 • Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 3 - 30 • Series of raids on suspected communists that were inspired by a series of mail bombings sent to government officials.

Answer 3 – 30 • Palmer Raids

Question 3 - 40 • Someone who supported public ownership of production, equal distribution of wealth, and a revolution led by the working class.

Answer 3 – 40 • Communism

Question 3 - 50 • Established the maximum number of immigrants who were allowed into the United States from each foreign country

Answer 3 – 50 • Quota Act

Question 4 - 10 • Someone who supported Prohibition because they believed they could make a large amount of money through its illegal transportation

Answer 4 – 10 • Bootlegger

Question 4 - 20 • Amendment to the Constitution which made the sale and distribution of alcohol illegal in the United States.

Answer 4 – 20 • 18th Amendment

Question 4 - 30 • Name two reasons why Prohibition was repealed.

Answer 4 – 30 • High Crime Rate, Police unable to enforce it, Law enforcement was part taking, Depression-needed more revenue/jobs

Question 4 - 40 • Law that defined the process and procedures of enforcing prohibition.

Answer 4 – 40 • Volstead Act

Question 4 - 50 • Name an organization that advocated for the passing of prohibition.

Answer 4 – 50 • Women’s Christian Temperance Union or Anti Saloon League

Question 5 - 10 • Famous Jazz musician who was known for scatting (sing syllables instead of sounds)

Answer 5 – 10 • Louis Armstrong

Question 5 - 20 • Famous Jazz musician who first introduced the muted trumpet. This became the iconic sound of Jazz in the 1920’s.

Answer 5 – 20 • Duke Ellington

Question 5 - 30 • African American leader who believed that blacks should separate themselves from white rather than integrate. Attempted to create a black nation in Africa.

Answer 5 – 30 • Marcus Garvey

Question 5 - 40 • Mass movement of African Americans from the rural south to northern cities like Detroit and New York

Answer 5 – 40 • The Great Migration

Roaring Twenties