136232486 | Red Scare | a period of general fear of communists | 0 | |
136232487 | KKK | terrorist group of white southerners who used violence to keep blacks from voting | 1 | |
136232488 | Sacco and Vanzetti | were two italian born american laborers and anarchists who were tired convicted and executed via electrocution on Aug 3 1927 in Ma for the 1920 armed robbery. it is believed they had nothing to do with the crime | 2 | |
136232489 | Teapot Dome | a government scandal involving a former United States Navy oil reserve in Wyoming that was secretly leased to a private oil company in 1921 | 3 | |
136232490 | Scopes Monkey Trial | 1925, the trial that pitted the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution against teaching Bible creationism | 4 | |
136232491 | 19th Amendment | gave women the right to vote | 5 | |
136232492 | 18th Amendment | Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages | 6 | |
136232493 | 21st Amendment | repeal of prohibition | 7 | |
136232494 | Prohibition | the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | 8 | |
136232495 | Speakeasy | illegal bar that served liquor during Prohibition | 9 | |
136232496 | Bootlegger | someone who makes or sells illegal liquor | 10 | |
136232497 | Anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jews | 11 | |
136232498 | Buying on Margin | Purchasing stock with a little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future | 12 | |
136232499 | Installment Buying | a system for paying for goods by installments | 13 | |
136232500 | Harlem Renaissance | a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished | 14 | |
136232501 | Spirit of St. Louis | single engine plane in which Lindberg made the first transatlantic flight | 15 | |
136232502 | The Jazz Singer | The first "talkie" | 16 | |
136232503 | St. Valentines Day Massacre | Al Capone's orchestrated attack against rival gangster "Bugsy" Moran in Chicago | 17 | |
136232504 | W.E.B. Dubois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 | 18 | |
136232505 | Marcus Garvey | Leader who called for a return to Africa to form a separate nation there | 19 | |
136232506 | Charles Lindberg | American hero who was the first to fly solo from New York to Paris | 20 | |
136232507 | Louis Armstrong | Famous trumpet player during the Jazz Age | 21 | |
136232508 | Jack Dempsey | was the most famous heavy-weight boxing champion of the 1920s. he helped make boxing a big money sport. | 22 | |
136232509 | Charlie Chaplin | The name of a famous movie comedian in the 1920s | 23 | |
136232510 | Gertrude Ederly | first swimmer to cross the English Channel | 24 |
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