Name: ____________________________
Mr. Sanchez
Date: ___________
Roaring 1920’s
The Roaring Twenties
Vocabulary:
Recession
Fad
Teapot Dome Scandal
Flappers
Installment buying
Jazz
Stock
Louis Armstrong
Bull Market
Expatriates
Communism
Ernest Hemingway
Warren G. Harding
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Calvin Coolidge
Sinclair Lewis
Prohibition (18th Amendment) Harlem Renaissance
Bootleggers
Langston Hughes
Repeal
James Weldon Johnson
th
20 Amendment
Claude McKay
League of Women Voters
Zora Neale Hurston
Equal Rights Amendment
Charles Lindberg
Carrie Chapman Catt
Company Union
Alice Paul
Sabotage
Suburb
Anarchist
Deport
Nativism
Quota System
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Scopes Trial
Ku Klux Klan
Marcus Garvey
What you need to know:
1. How did America attempt to return to “normalcy” after WWI? (p.736) _______________
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2. What were some hardships that WWI veterans faced when they came back from WWI?
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3. What were some problems that Warren G. Harding faced during his presidency after
WWI? (p.737)
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4. How did the Harding Administration plan to stimulate (Boost) the economy? (p.737) ____
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5. What was the Teapot Dome Scandal? (p.737) ___________________________________
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6. How did President Calvin Coolidge resolve the economic problems created under
President Harding’s administration? (p.737-738)
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7. What was the U.S. foreign policy after WWI? How did this U.S. foreign policy promote
peace after WWI? (p.738) _____________________________________________________
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8. Define Communism (p.738) _________________________________________________
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9. What was the Red Scare? (p.739) _____________________________________________
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10. How did the United States attempt to combat the Red Scare (Hint: Act)? (p.739) _______
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11. Explain the Sacco and Vanzetti trial? Why was it controversial? (p.739) ____________
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12. What steps did the U.S. take to limit immigration during the 1920’s? Why? (p.740)
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13. What was Prohibition? What amendment was passed to enforce Prohibition? (p.741)
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14. Explain how bootleggers get around Prohibition laws? (p.741) _____________________
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15.Was Prohibition successful? Why or why not? What problems did Prohibition cause?
(p.741-742)
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16.What amendment repealed Prohibition? _______________________________________
17.Provide several examples of how behaviors and roles of women change in the 1920’s?
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18. What were flappers? Describe several characteristics of flappers? (743)
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19. What impacts did the automobile have on the economy? (p.743) ___________________
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20. What new industries were created as a result of automobiles becoming affordable? (p.743)
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21. How did the radio and movie industries impact America in the 1920’s? (p.743-744)
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22. Explain the Scopes Trial and the issues that were debated? Why was it important?
(p.744)
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23. Describe the racial tension that existed in the 1920’s? (p.744-745) __________________
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24. Who was Marcus Garvey? What movement did he begin? (p.745) _________________
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25. What is a fad? Describe some examples of fads in the 1920’s? (p.746) ______________
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26. Who was Charles Lindberg? What was his nickname and what did he do? (p.747) ____
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27. What was Jazz music? Name three of the most famous jazz musician of the 1920?
(p.747-748) _________________________________________________________________
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28. Identify three well known writers in America after WWI and describe the themes they
talked about in their books? (p.749) ______________________________________________
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29. What was the Harlem Renaissance? What did it represent in terms of in terms of African
American progress? (p.750-751) ________________________________________________
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30. Identify James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston? (p.750751)
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31.Why did industry grow following WWI in the United States? (p.752) _________________
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32.Define installment buying? (p.752) ___________________________________________
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33. Explain what a bull market? (p.753)
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34.What is buying on margin? (p.753) ___________________________________________
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35.What was life like for farmers in the mid to late 1920’s? (p.754) _____________________
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36.What was life like for workers in the mid to late 1920’s? (p.754) _____________________
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37.What message did Herbert Hoover tell the American people to win the 1928 presidential
election? (p.755) _____________________________________________________________
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Looking Ahead:
38. Do you think that the good economic times of the 1920’s can last forever? Why or why
not? What does the 1930’s have in store for America and the rest of the world? (Peek
forward to the next Chapter 23 if you need to) ______________________________________
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