1920's Flashcards

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