Chapter 10 Key Terms: The "Roaring Twenties"

A decade of economic growth and widespread prosperity, driven by wartime recovery, a boom in construction, and the rapid growth of consumer goods such as automobiles and electricity.

• Roaring Twenties

• Roaring Thirties

• Great Recession

• Great Depression

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When a wave of communist strikes hit the U.S. in 1919, many Americans feared this was the start of their own Communist revolution. It was known as the---

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Big Scare

• Red Scare

• Model T

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Protestant reformers' efforts to make it illegal to make, sell, or consume alcohol.

• Prohibition

• Manifest Destiny

• Suffrage

• Espionage Act

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This amendment made it illegal to make, sell, or buy alcohol.

• Sixteenth Amendment

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Eighteenth Amendment

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This amendment repealed Prohibition.

• Eighteenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twentieth Amendment

• Twenty-First Amendment

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A pseudo-scientific belief that the human race could be improved by breeding.

• Democracy

• Eugenics

• Biology

• Ethnicity

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These women wore short dresses; they had short hair; they wore a lot of make up; they went out on dates or to dances without chaperones.

• Flappers

• Hippies

• Yappers

• Moderns

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The two decades from 1910 to 1930 that witnessed the movement of about two million African Americans out of the South to the Northeast and Midwest.

• Great Depression

• Great Expectations

• Great Recession

• Great Migration

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Begun by African-American middle class that introduced new forms of music and literature; an era in which many African Americans felt as though they had liberated themselves from a past marked by self-doubt and uncertainty.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Great Migration

• Texas Renaissance

• National Jazz Ensemble

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The founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), which aimed to achieve Black nationalism through the celebration of African history and culture.

• Marcus Garvey

• Alvin York

• Louis Armstrong

• Malcolm X

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