1.1920s get-rich-quick scheme in which real estate developers sold many
Florida coast lost, some undesirable, to speculators in other parts of the
country, causing prices to raise rapidly.
2.1921 international convenience, to discuss naval disarmament and
resulting in agreements to discuss power conflicts in the Pacific, to reduce
or limit the size of each nation’s navy, to regulate submarine use, and to ban
poison gas use.
3.A commonly used daily measure of stock prices.
4.A government policy of not taking part in economic and political alliances
or relations with other countries.
5.A group of young Americans who established themselves as prominent
postwar writing during the 1920s.
6.A person who embraces new ideas, styles, and social trends.
7.A person who has deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values.
8.A secret club that sold alcohol during the era of prohibition.
9.An agreement made among most nations of the world in 1928 to try to
settle international disputes by peaceful means rather than war.
10.An era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists,
and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s.
11.An organization founded in 1913 to half the defamation, or attack or a
person’s or group’s reputation or character, of Jewish people and to ensure
the fair treatment of all Americans.
12.An organization founded in 1920 to defend Americans’ rights and
freedoms as given in the Constitution.
13.Concept of life as it was before WWI, when the nation could focus on its
own domestic prosperity, which Republican candidate Warren G. Harding
promoted during the 1920 presidential election campaign and which helped
him win the presidency.
14. US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, a series of unauthorized raids on
homes, businesses, and meeting places of suspected subversives that
resulted in the arrest of 6,000 radicals often without any evidence against
them.
15.Criminal trial, held in Dayton, Ohio, in 1925, that tested the
constitutionality of a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of Darwin’s
theory of evolution in schools.
16.Dance that originated as an African American folk dance in the South
and became popular throughout the US and Europe during the Roaring
Twenties.
17.Developed by banker Charles Dawes, a plan for Germany to pay
reparations after WWI by receiving loads form the US.
18.During the Roaring Twenties, a young woman who broke with traditional
expectations for how women should dress and behave.
19.Economic system that relies on private ownership of property,
competition for profits, and the forces of supply and demand to produce
needed goods and services and that discourages government regulation;
also known as capitalism.
20.Established by the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, a system limiting
immigration to the US by permitting no more immigrants from a country than
3% of the number of that country’s residents living in the US in 1910; the
Immigration Act of 1924 reduced the quota to 2% of the number of a
country’s residents living in the US in 1890.
21.Formed in 1920, a grassroots organization created to influence
government and public policy by educating voters about public issues.
22.Hotly protested criminal trial, held from 1920 to 1927, in which two Italian
immigrants were convicted of robbing and murdering two men and
sentenced to death; many people believed that the trial was unfair and that
the defendants were prosecuted because they were anarchist, not because
they were guilty.
23.Lasting from 1919 to 1920, a campaign launched to arrest communists
and other radical who promoted the overthrow of the US government;
revived during the Cold War by Senator Joseph McCarthy during an period
of anti-communism lasting from 1950 to 1957.
24.Law passed by Congress in 1919 to enforce the 18th Amendment, which
prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
25.Movement, led by Marcus Garvey during the 1910s and 1920s, that
promoted the return of blacks living all over the world to Africa.
26.Nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity,
technological advances, and cultural boom.
27.Political scandal in which US secretary of interior Albert Fall leased
national oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome Wyoming, to
two companies that had bribed him.
28.Proposed but un-ratified Constitutional amendment 1st introduced in
1923 by Alice Paul for the purpose of guaranteeing equal rights for all
Americans regardless of gender.
29.The era during the 1920s in which jazz became increasingly popular in
the US.
1.1920s get-rich-quick scheme in which real estate developers sold many
Florida coast lost, some undesirable, to speculators in other parts of the
country, causing prices to raise rapidly.
2.1921 international convenience, to discuss naval disarmament and
resulting in agreements to discuss power conflicts in the Pacific, to reduce
or limit the size of each nation’s navy, to regulate submarine use, and to ban
poison gas use.
3.A commonly used daily measure of stock prices.
4.A government policy of not taking part in economic and political alliances
or relations with other countries.
5.A group of young Americans who established themselves as prominent
postwar writing during the 1920s.
6.A person who embraces new ideas, styles, and social trends.
7.A person who has deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values.
8.A secret club that sold alcohol during the era of prohibition.
9.An agreement made among most nations of the world in 1928 to try to
settle international disputes by peaceful means rather than war.
10.An era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists,
and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s.
11.An organization founded in 1913 to half the defamation, or attack or a
person’s or group’s reputation or character, of Jewish people and to ensure
the fair treatment of all Americans.
12.An organization founded in 1920 to defend Americans’ rights and
freedoms as given in the Constitution.
13.Concept of life as it was before WWI, when the nation could focus on its
own domestic prosperity, which Republican candidate Warren G. Harding
promoted during the 1920 presidential election campaign and which helped
him win the presidency.
14. US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, a series of unauthorized raids on
homes, businesses, and meeting places of suspected subversives that
resulted in the arrest of 6,000 radicals often without any evidence against
them.
15.Criminal trial, held in Dayton, Ohio, in 1925, that tested the
constitutionality of a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of Darwin’s
theory of evolution in schools.
16.Dance that originated as an African American folk dance in the South
and became popular throughout the US and Europe during the Roaring
Twenties.
17.Developed by banker Charles Dawes, a plan for Germany to pay
reparations after WWI by receiving loads form the US.
18.During the Roaring Twenties, a young woman who broke with traditional
expectations for how women should dress and behave.
19.Economic system that relies on private ownership of property,
competition for profits, and the forces of supply and demand to produce
needed goods and services and that discourages government regulation;
also known as capitalism.
20.Established by the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, a system limiting
immigration to the US by permitting no more immigrants from a country than
3% of the number of that country’s residents living in the US in 1910; the
Immigration Act of 1924 reduced the quota to 2% of the number of a
country’s residents living in the US in 1890.
21.Formed in 1920, a grassroots organization created to influence
government and public policy by educating voters about public issues.
22.Hotly protested criminal trial, held from 1920 to 1927, in which two Italian
immigrants were convicted of robbing and murdering two men and
sentenced to death; many people believed that the trial was unfair and that
the defendants were prosecuted because they were anarchist, not because
they were guilty.
23.Lasting from 1919 to 1920, a campaign launched to arrest communists
and other radical who promoted the overthrow of the US government;
revived during the Cold War by Senator Joseph McCarthy during an period
of anti-communism lasting from 1950 to 1957.
24.Law passed by Congress in 1919 to enforce the 18th Amendment, which
prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
25.Movement, led by Marcus Garvey during the 1910s and 1920s, that
promoted the return of blacks living all over the world to Africa.
26.Nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity,
technological advances, and cultural boom.
27.Political scandal in which US secretary of interior Albert Fall leased
national oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome Wyoming, to
two companies that had bribed him.
28.Proposed but un-ratified Constitutional amendment 1st introduced in
1923 by Alice Paul for the purpose of guaranteeing equal rights for all
Americans regardless of gender.
29.The era during the 1920s in which jazz became increasingly popular in
the US.