UNIT 10 REVIEW SHEET
Vocabulary:
NAME: ____________________________
1. normalcy:
2. buying on margin:
3. Harlem Renaissance:
4. speculation:
5. 21st amendment:
6. bootlegger:
7. speakeasy:
8. flapper:
9. Great Migration:
10. laissez faire:
Concepts/Ideas:
11. Why did the economy grow rapidly during the 1920's?
12. The treaties signed at the Washington Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact were efforts to establish what foreign policy?
13. What right did the women's rights movement seek to secure in the early 20th century?
14. What did the Harlem Renaissance encourage?
15. Why were the 1920's labeled the "Roaring Twenties"?
16. Which group of Americans made the greatest gains in political rights?
17. What does the prohibition of alcohol, the Scopes Trial and the passage of the National
Origins Act prove about the 1920's?
18. What conflict was highlighted in the John T. Scopes "Monkey Trial"?
19. Describe how society changed during the 1920's?
20. Why did a consumer economy rise in the 1920's?
21. Why did flappers gain public attention in the 1920's?
22. Name an event inconsistent with racial and ethnic intolerance in the 1920's.
23. How did improved mass production affect the American economy?
24. Why did national prohibition end?
25. What is a main result of national prohibition?
26. To what did the return to "normalcy" refer?
27. How did the government react to its experience in WWI?
28. What was a major cause of events such as the Red Scare and the Palmer Raids?
29. What was an important goal of American foreign during the 1920's?
30. Which group experienced the most severe economic problems in the 1920's?