Jazz Age Quiz Review

radio

Like movies the _____ became popular in the 1920s. By 1929, more than 10 million families owned these. Families would gather around to listen to shows, news, and songs. (Chapter 3)

Teapot Dome Scandal

Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was taking bribes to let oil companies drill on government owned land. He was the first cabinet member to be sent to jail. This event was called the ______ ____ _______. (Chapter 1)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

_. _____ __________ was the author of The Great Gatsby, and captured the spirit of the 20s. He wrote a story about wealthy people who went to many parties but still weren't happy. He was a hero among college students and flappers. He wrote in France. (Chapter 4)

WWI

___ ended right before the 1920s. (Chapter 1)

Jazz

___ was the new kind of music that combined African rhythms and European harmonies. It originated in New Orleans and moved up and around America. (Chapter 4)

Zora Neale Hurston

____ _____ _______ was an African American writer from Florida who created Mules and Men, a collection of African American folktales, songs, and prayers that she picked up driving through the south. (Chapter 4)

(Nicola) Sacco and (Bartolomeo) Vanzetti

_____ _____ ___ _________ ________, two Italian immigrants. They were arrested for robbery and murder. Although the two admitted that they were anarchists, they did not admit to any crime. However, they were convicted and sentenced to death. Americans and Italians were angered with the outcome of this trial. They believed that they were only convicted because they were radicals and foreigners. (Chapter 5)

Russia

_____, now called the Soviet Union, had a communist revolution thanks to V. I Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Americans disliked communism, but when a famine hit the country, congress voted $20 million in aid. Even though America disapproved their form of government, they were still willing to help. (Chapter 1)

Marcus Garvey

______ ______ was an African American leader who organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association. He urged African Americans to seek their roots in Africa. He was the leader of the "Back to Africa" movement which told people to go to Africa and learn more about the culture and it built racial pride. (Chapter 5)

speakeasies

Illegal bars called ___________ opened in nearly every town as a way to get around prohibition. (Chapter 3)

1933

In ____, the 18th Amendment was repealed and the 21st Amendment was passed. (Chapter 3)

Fad

A ___ is a style or an activity that is popular for a short time. (Chapter 4)

Scopes Trial

A biology teacher was arrested for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in his class. It was against the law in Tennessee. He ended up being fined, but Tennessee looked bad and the state ended up changing the law. The two lawyers were famous men. The trial was called the ______ _____. (Chapter 5)

Nicaragua

A revolution broke out it _________ in 1926. There were American-owned plantations and railroads, so US Marines were sent in to oversee new elections. (Chapter 1)

Alice Paul

A suffragist in the 1920s named _____ ____ wanted an equal rights amendment (ERA). It said "equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on the account of sex." Many said that it went to far - that women would have to be drafted for war, but she fought for it until she died. The Amendment was never passed. (Chapter 3)

Dwight Morrow

An American diplomat named ______ ______ negotiated with the Mexican Government. America began drilling for oil in Mexico. Then the Mexican government wanted to nationalize oil drilling and take over American rigs. Instead of sending troops, they sent Morrow to negotiate. Mexico ended up being able to take American equipment but they had to pay. (Chapter 1)

Babe Ruth

An extremely talented baseball player named ____ ____ grew up in an orphanage and made people want to watch baseball again after the black sox scandal. (Chapter 4)

Isolationist

Calvin Coolidge had ____________ ideas. He and many other Americans wanted to keep peace with Europe but didn't want to be the world's peacekeeper. The solution was to stay out of everything and keep to itself. America signed separate peace treaties with the Central Powers, and although they sent observers to the League of Nations, they wouldn't join. (Chapter 1)

League of Woman Voters

Carrie Chapman Catt, head of the National Women Suffrage Association, set up the ______ __ _____ _____ in 1920. It worked to educate woman voters. It still does today. (Chapter 3)

Veteran's Bureau

Charles Forbes, a man who was part of the Ohio Gang, was the head of the _________ ______. He stole millions of dollars from it. (Chapter 1)

Latin America

During World War I, _____ ________ had been cut off from Europe so America had been trading with it a lot more. After the war, America continued to be its leading trading partner. They also intervened to protect American interests. In Nicaragua, America sent in marines to solve a problem and in Mexico, America sent in Dwight Morrow to negotiate. (Chapter 1)

sound track

Movies with a _____ _____ were also called "Talkies." Before that, movies were played silently and a piano or organ player would play music live for the movie. The Jazz Singer was the first talkie, and after that, almost all movies were talkies. (Chapter 3)

margain

People bought stocks on _______, a practice that allowed people to buy stock with a down payment of 10 percent of the full value; the stock broker loans the other money; then you have to pay them back, but it's hard to do when there is a bear market (Chapter 2)

bootleggers

People called __________ smuggled in millions of gallons of liquor from Canada and the Caribbean as a way to get around prohibition. (Chapter 3)

crime

Prohibition gave a big boost to organized _____. Since alcohol was banned and speakeasies needed alcohol, gangsters supplied it by smuggling it. They banned together or fought each other for rights to sell to certain speakeasies. They used their large profits to pay off policemen and officials. (Chapter 3)

Warren G. Harding

The Winner of the election of 1920. He brought in the Ohio Gang to help him run the country. (Chapter 1)

19th amendment

The ____ _________ gave women the right to vote. (Chapter 3)

18th amendment

The ____ _________ turned the Noble Experiment into a law. (Chapter 3)

Quota System

The _____ ______ was a system set up by the Emergency Quota Act in 1921. It allowed only a certain number of people from each country to be entered into the United States. The numbers were proportional to the amount of people from that country who were already in the United States. (Chapter 5)

Harlem Renaissance

The ______ ___________ was a a rebirth of African-American culture. Other races were noticing and appreciating the achievements of African Americans. It was centered in Harlem, NY. (Chapter 4)

Kellog-Briand Pact

The ______-_____ ____ was a pact that outlaws war - it was America and 61 other countries - it didn't really work because there was no way to enforce it. (Chapter 1)

Coolidge prosperity

The good times of the economy in the 1920s was called ________ __________. The quantity of goods made by industry almost doubled in the decade. More important to most Americans, their incomes rose. As a result, people bought more goods. This, in turn, fueled further growth. (Chapter 2)

Herbert Hoover

The leader of the Food Administration and then the secretary of commerce (overseas business) was _______ ______. Also, he was the president after Calvin Coolidge. He Ran against Al Smith and was the republican winner of the election of 1928. He was supported by rural and small-town voters. They hoped that he would keep the country prosperous, but those hopes were not met. (Chapter 5)

The Ohio Gang

The politicians that President Harding brought in were called the ____ ____. However, they caused many problems. One example is Charles Forbes, who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars from the bureau. Other members caused problems as well. The Teapot Dome Scandal was caused by one of the members. (Chapter 1)

business

Warren G. Harding and his cabinet followed strongly pro-_______ policies. Calvin Coolidge also believed that prosperity for all Americans depended on _______ prosperity. He cut government regulations and named business leaders to government agencies. (Chapter 1)

Ana Roque De Duprey

When women in America succeeded in getting the right to vote, Puerto Rican women wanted to know if they had the right also but were told that the law did not apply to them, even though they were American citizens. Lead by ___ _____ __ _____, an educator and writer, Puerto Rican women crusaded or their right to vote. In 1929, they got the right to vote. (Chapter 3)

Calvin Coolidge

______ _______ was Warren G. Harding's vice president, and when he died of a heart attack, he had to step up. His own father swore him in. After he became president, he ran again and won. He also activated the national guard to help people when the police went on strike. This helped him become known. (Chapter 1)

Ernest Hemingway

_______ _________ was a popular writer in the 20s. During World War I, he drove an ambulance on the Italian front, and after the war, he wrote a novel called A Farewell to Arms about a man's growing disgust with the war. He incorporated other adventures into his books. He and his books influenced other writers of the time. He wrote in France. (Chapter 4)

Flappers

_______ were young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting. They bobbed their hair, wore short dresses, and put on bright red lipstick. They also smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol in speakeasies. (Chapter 4)

Langston Hughes

________ ______ was an African-American writer and poet in the 20s. In his poems, he denounced violence towards African Americans. (Chapter 4)

anarchists

_________ are people opposed to an organized government. Many were foreigners. They want a governmentless society. (Chapter 5)

Automobiles

___________ allowed people to travel quickly wherever they wanted. They also created suburbs, as people could live away from the city and still get there easily. People didn't have to live where they could walk to places anymore. (Chapter 3)

installment

___________ buying, or buying on credit helped people be able to buy things they could not afford. It used the slogan "Buy now, pay later." The store gives credit - stores get more customers and then they charge the customer interest so they end up paying more; they check people's credit rating to see if they are likely to pay it back (Chapter 2)

disarmament

___________ means reducing a nation's armed forces and weapons of war. (Chapter 1)

Prohibition

____________, and called the "Noble Experiment" is the ban on making and selling alcohol. This ban became a law when the 18th Amendment was ratified. Nobody really followed the law because there were so many ways to get around it. (Chapter 3)