1920’s and 1930’s Review Worksheet
Name _________________________________________ Date ___________________
WORD BANK: Red Scare, Japan, Communism, Sacco-Vanzetti, immigration, quota
National Origins Act, Philippines, Ku Klux Klan, 19th Amendment, Indian Citizenship
Act of 1924, NAACP, Warren Harding, Tea Pot Dome Scandal, Calvin Coolidge
___________________________________ 1. when oil field on public land were loaned to
private oil companies for a kickback, this scandal erupted
___________________________________ 2. gave women the right to vote; women first voted
in Wyoming
___________________________________ 3. National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People
___________________________________ 4. Italian immigrants who were accused and
convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in Massachusetts. After a
controversial trial and a series of appeals, the men were executed on August 23, 1927.
___________________________________ 5. Our relations with this country had much
tension in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The US had strict immigration policies in relation to this
country, and this country began to build up its military.
___________________________________ 6. a time period when Americans greatly feared
communism
___________________________________ 7. the cat that made Indians citizens
___________________________________ 8. moving from one place to another
___________________________________ 9. This Vermonter became President when Warren
Harding dies suddenly. This man believed in hands off government and is most famous for
being quiet and often “silent” on important issues
___________________________________ 10. a maximum number or quantity that is
permitted or needed
___________________________________ 11. a president who’s administration was racked
with scandal; he died in office
___________________________________ 12. A law that severely restricted immigration by
establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from
southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the
1960s.
___________________________________ 13. a form of government originally started to
make people’s economic lives more equal. It promoted that everything should be owned by the
people. It also outlawed religion which was very frightening for a country that was founded for
rel
___________________________________ 14. a territory of the US during 1920’s; lots of
immigrants to US
___________________________________ 15 a group originally started by Nathan Bedford
Forest after the Civil War. This group hates (still hates) blacks, Jews, Catholics, homosexualsbasically all others who are not white and Protestant
1920’s and 1930’s Review Worksheet
Name _________________________________________ Date ___________________
WORD BANK: Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindberg, Spirit of St. Louis, strike, scab,
blacklist, yellow dog contract, jazz, flappers, bootleggers, Babe Ruth, Prohibition, Amelia
Earhart, speakeasies, 18th amendment, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, vaudeville,
Louis Armstrong- Due Ellington-Count Bassie
___________________________________ 1. wrote The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise,
The Beautiful and Damned, and Tender is the Night his stormy marriage to Zelda is almost as
interesting /famous as his writing; one of the Jazz Age authors
___________________________________ 2. first woman to fly across the Atlantic
___________________________________ 3. President who unsuccessfully tried to fix the
Great Depression through volunteer effort and hopes that it would recover through free market
economics
___________________________________ 4. someone who has made alcohol illegally and or
smuggled it for a profit
___________________________________ 5. The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was
an American Major League baseball player from 1914–1935. He originally broke into the
major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New
York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder and subsequently became one of
the league's most prolific hitters. In 1936, he became one of the first five players elected to the
Baseball Hall of Fame. He has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various
surveys and rankings, and his home run hitting prowess and charismatic personality made him
a larger than life figure in the "Roaring Twenties” Off the field he was famous for his charity,
but also was noted for his often reckless lifestyle.
___________________________________ 6. a time period when drinking, making, and
selling alcohol was illegal
___________________________________ 7. great jazz musicians
___________________________________ 8. a place where alcoholic beverages are sold and
consumed illegally, during Prohibition
___________________________________ 9. a worker who replaces a striking worker; it can
be a dangerous position to be in
___________________________________ 10. first transatlantic flight; his baby was
kidnapped and murdered in 1932 The toddler was abducted from his family home in East
Amwell, New Jersey near the town of Hopewell, New Jersey on the evening of March 1, 1932.
Over two months later, on May 12, 1932, the body was discovered a short distance from the
aviators’' home. A medical examination determined that the toddler had a "massive fracture of
the skull" which was determined to be the cause of death. After an investigation that lasted
more than two years, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime. In a
trial that was held from January 2 to February 13, 1935, Hauptmann was found guilty of
murder in the first degree and sentenced to the death penalty. He was executed by electric chair
at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936 at 8:44 in the evening. Hauptmann proclaimed
his innocence to the end. (Wikipedia)
___________________________________ 11. to stop working as a collective form of protest
against an employer, often to achieve a specific aim
___________________________________ 12. a type of entertainment popular in the late
1800’s and early 1900’s consisting of a variety of singing, dancing, and comic acts
___________________________________ 13. popular music that originated among black
people in New Orleans in the late 1800’s and is characterized by syncopated rhythms and
improvisation. Jazz originally drew on ragtime, gospel, black spiritual songs, West African
rhythms, and European harmonies.
___________________________________ 14. a list of people or groups who are under
suspicion or excluded from something
___________________________________ 15. a young woman of the 1920s- Flappers were
associated with the Charleston dance, bobbed hair, and very short dresses.
___________________________________ 16. Lindberg’s plane; it hangs in the Smithsonian
Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
___________________________________ 17. wrote Farwell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises,
and Old Man of the Sea , loved hunting , suffered from depression, and committed suicide, one
of America’s greatest authors
___________________________________ 18. amendment that outlaws alcohol
___________________________________ 19. is an agreement between an employer and an
employee in which the employee agrees, as a condition of employment, not to be a member of
a labor union. In the United States, such contracts were, until the 1930s, widely used by
employers to prevent the formation of unions, most often by permitting employers to take legal
action against union organizers. In 1932, these contracts were outlawed in the United States
under the Norris-LaGuardia Act.
1920’s and 1930’s Review Worksheet
Name _________________________________________ Date ___________________
WORD BANK: The Great Depression, The Stock Market Crash, the Dust Bowl,
breadlines, soup kitchens, lame duck, The New Deal, fireside chats, social security, civil
rights, 20th amendment, 21st amendment, 22nd amendment
___________________________________ 1. a government program that provides economic
security to people who are retired, unemployed, or unable to work. The program was
established in 1935 and its funds come from employers and employees.
___________________________________ 2. a time period in history marked by drought,
wind, caused by destruction of the American prairie grasses and a change in weather patterns
___________________________________ 3. states that the Term Commencement for
Congress is January 3 and for the President is January 20.
___________________________________ 4. a series of thirty evening radio speeches given
by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944
___________________________________ 5. was the most devastating stock market crash in
the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its
fallout. The Roaring Twenties, the decade that led up to the Crash was a time of wealth and
excess, and despite caution of the dangers of speculation, many believed that the market could
sustain high price levels. However, the optimism and financial gains of the great bull market
were shattered on "Black Tuesday", October 29, 1929, when share prices on the NYSE (New
York Stock Exchange) collapsed. Stock prices fell on that day and they continued to fall, at an
unprecedented rate, for a full month. Wikipedia
___________________________________ 6. an elected officeholder left seemingly powerless
after a successor has been elected but has not yet taken office
___________________________________ 7. basic rights that all citizens of a society are
supposed to have, e.g. the right to vote or to receive fair treatment from the law. These rights as
conceived in U.S. law are set forth in the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution
and in some congressional acts
___________________________________ 8. a place that serves free meals to people
___________________________________ 9. repeals the 18th amendment; alcohol is now legal
again
___________________________________ 10. the policies of social and economic reform
introduced in the United States in the 1930s under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
___________________________________ 11. The most unhealthy economic time period in
American history
___________________________________ 12. a line of people waiting for handouts of free
food
___________________________________ 13. limits the presidency to two terms