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WorksheetsRoaring Twenties
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 14mins
A political activist who emphasized racial pride and black nationalism. Formed the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Langston Hughes
_________of 1921, 1924, and 1929 were designed to keep out immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe
Immigration Acts
Migration Acts
Alien Acts
Citizenship Acts
He became the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
Glenn Curtiss
Charles Lindbergh
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
About two million African-Americans move out of the south to the Northeast and Midwestern United States in search of better opportunities.
Sun Belt Migration
African American Movement
Mediocre Migration
Great Migration
Group of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis who rejected the idea of material wealth in favor of spirituality.
Lost Generation
Beat Generation
Millennial Generation
Generation X
He was an engineer and entrepreneur who introduced the assembly line production of automobiles
Glenn Curtis
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Jack Chevrolet
This prohibited the sale, manufacture and distribution of alcohol.
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
16th Amendment
Elected President in 1920 an enacted highest tariff in history, lowered taxes and restricted immigration.
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Early aviation pioneer known for his design of the first seaplane giving birth to the US Naval Aviation.
Glenn Curtiss
Howard Hughes
Charles Lindbergh
Orville Wright
Famous defense attorney; defending John T. Scopes in the “Monkey Trial”.
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Marcus Garvey
Calvin Coolidge
In addition to fighting for women’s rights, prison reform, and an 8 hour workday she was the most outspoken voice in the temperance movement.
Jeannette Rankin
Carrie Nation
Frances Willard
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Government officials convicted of accepting bribes for leasing federal land to oil companies.
Watergate
Teapot Dome
Iran Contra
Pentagon Papers
Guaranteed women the right to vote.
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
The practice of purchasing of any item in the hope of selling it later at a higher price.
speculation
buying on margin
stock manipulation
derivatives
Pseudo-scientific belief that the human race could be improved by breeding.
Darwinism
Eugenics
Social Gospel
Great Awakening
The style many women adopted of shorter dresses shorter hair rejecting the more tradition fashion and lifestyle.
Women's Liberation
Flapper
Bird
Suffrage
Campaign slogan placing emphasis on peacetime production and prosperity at home.
Morning in America
Fair Deal
Square Deal
Return to Normalcy
Pro-business President known for saying “the chief business of America is business.”
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Hoover’s belief that America’s greatness was made possible by the ideas of equal opportunity, free education, and a will to succeed.
Shoelace Theory
Make America Great Again
America First
Rugged Individualism
Wave of panic and hysteria in America caused by a fear of Communism and anarchy.
Red Scare
Communist Witch Hunts
Consumerism
Socialism
Courtroom battle over the teaching of modern scientific theories and the traditional religious beliefs.
Shenck v. US
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
Hostile group that was anti-immigrant, anti-catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-African American.
Nativists
Ku Klux Klan
White Liners
Make America Great Again
Was referred to as the “Grand Experiment.”
Prohibition
Direct Election of Senators
Suffrage for Women
U.S. Constitution
An area in New York city where song writing and musical ideas mixed together to form popular American music.
Brooklyn
Nashville
Tin Pan Alley
Wall Street
Post WWI time period known for isolationism and economic prosperity.
Great Depression
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition
Roaring Twenties
Famous African-American poet known for expressing pride in his heritage and attacking racism.
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
President seen as the villain at the start of the depression, blamed for continuing pro-business policies and not doing enough to remedy the economic downturn.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
New optimism and growth of African-American culture.
Beat Generation
Hip-Hop
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Shake
The fear of radical takeover that resulted in the arrests of 4,000 suspects and deportation of 600 others directed by the Attorney General.
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
Communist Manifesto
Port Huron Statement
