The Roaring Twenties

What was Warden Harding's 1920 Presidential campaign slogan?

A policy in which the government should not interfere with economic affairs.

As President, _____ got rid of the dishonest men in Harding’s government and replaced them with honest public servants. He asked Congress to reduce taxes and balance the budget. He vetoed attempts to give money to American farmers and helped reduce income taxes.

What amendment illegalized the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol by the U.S. Congress in 1917?

What amendment granted women the right to vote?

The ___ of 1931 under Herbert Hoover raised tariffs to an all time high. It protected most businesses from all competition from foreign goods.

What amendment ended the prohibition?

Now considered the first generation of independent American women, ____ pushed barriers in economic, political and sexual freedom for women.

The ____ was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S.

During World War I, the national government started building a dam at Muscles Shoals on the Tennessee River to make nitrates. These chemicals, used to manufacture explosives, could be used to make fertilizers.

A theory that financial benefits given to big business will in turn pass down to smaller businesses and consumers

The relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest and West from about 1916 to 1970.

The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal. Herbert Hoover often used this phrase.

A Jamaican-born Black nationalist and leader of the Pan-Africanism movement, which sought to unify and connect people of African descent worldwide.

A set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of human population

This act drastically cut the total number of immigrants allowed in each year and effectively cut off all immigration from Asia.

A policy or belief that protects or favors the interest of the native population of a country over the interests of immigrants.

Italian immigrant anarchists who were controversially accused of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison.

The Teapot Dome Scandal of the 1920s shocked Americans by revealing...

The ____ was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted.

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