1920s History Test

Teapot Dome Scandal

A U.S. government scandal where government officials secretly leased oil-rich land to private companies in exchange for bribes.

Albert B. Fall

Central Figure in the Teapot Dome Scandal, he secretly leaned federal oil reserves

Return to 'Normalcy'

Negative events associated with it - Warren G. Harding

Importance of Jazz singer

Entertainment, radio expansion, Jazz age

Henry Ford

Founder of Ford, made cars affordable

Model T

Cheap car model made by Ford

Assembly Line

Method to lower costs and sell cars to masses

Herbert Hoover

President during the Great Depression

Alfred E. Smith

Governor of New York, ran for president but lost to Herbert Hoover

Key Issues of 1928 Election

Economic prosperity & Smith was Catholic

18th Amendment

Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the U.S.

Warren G. Harding

Elected POTUS promising 'return to normalcy'

Marcus Garvey

Promoted for Africans to go back to Africa

Charles Lindbergh

First solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Red Summer 1919

Epidemic of anti-black violence

Scopes Monkey Trial

Court case in Tennessee, John T. Scopes involved

'The business of America is business'

Phrase by Calvin Coolidge

Challenges of enforcing prohibition

Speakeasies were made, support increased in bootlegged sales

Causes of the Harlem Renaissance

The Great Migration, Economic prosperity, response to racism

W. E. B. Dubois

Leading black intellectual

Significance of the movie 'Birth of a Nation'

KKK was inspired by this move

Zora Neale Hurston

A writer who wrote 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Banned Japan, Chinese already banned, limited immigrants from other countries

Rise of Nativism

Distrust in immigrants

Rise of Isolationism

US shift toward avoiding foreign conflicts & focusing on domestic growth after WW1

Madison Grant

Leader of Eugenics

Gugliemo Marconi

Developed radio, transmitted first transatlantic signal (NJ to Ireland)

Josephine Baker

Musical performer, most successful in France

Significance of 'Steamboat Willy'

First cartoon with sound

Volstead Act

Law that enforced the 18th Amendment (no alcohol in the U.S.)

Amelia Earhart

First woman to fly across the Atlantic (1928)