Am Rep Ch 21 review

The first automobiles were built shortly after WWI.

Who promised a "return to normalcy" after the war?

What would you call America's basic foreign policy in the 1920s?

The Volstead Act of 1919 outlawed any beverage that contained more than 0.5% alcohol content.

A term used for women whose behavior and dress were shocking.

Albert B Fall was infamous for his part in

What unrealistic agreement was made in 1928 to outlaw war and establish world peace?

The airplane was a major form of transportation for most Americans during the 1920s.

Who was the famous Chicago crime boss during the 1920s?

The illegal sale of liquor

The Republican presidents in 1920s believed the govt shouldn't regulate farm economy.

The automobile had a dramatic effect on American life, esp. of farm families.

Who was a president who died in office?

The author of the book The Man Nobody Knows was

Prohibition went into effect in 1919 despite widespread disapproval and a long, bitter fight against the movement.

Communists intended to spread their rule from Russia to other nations of the world.

Who was the pilot of the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean?

A major court case related to the Red Scare was the one involving

What did they call a place to buy liquor illegally?

Who won the presidential election of 1928?

Which president was a member of the "Ohio Gang"?

Who was the developer of the assembly line for mass production?

The common use of what power source did much to revolutionize daily life in the 20s?

What condition was imposed by the Eighteenth Amendment?

What caused national fear during the Red Scare?

President Harding's admin was filled with scandal bc he allowed friends to use govt powers for their own gain.

The Scopes trial resulted in Scopes being convicted of teaching evolution.

Who was the brunt of much ridicule at the Scopes trial for his defense of biblical creation?

Who was President Harding's Secretary of State?

The people of the 1920s generally had an interest in all of the following topics or issues EXCEPT

What term describes the decade of 1920-1929?

Which item broke down some regional characteristics in America and unified the culture?

Who was the inheritor of the impending fall from prosperity?

Charles Darwin, Signmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

President Harding was impeached, found to be responsible for Teapot Dome scandal, and imprisoned.

At what conference was an effort made to reduce the naval strength of the major powers?

All of the following conditions were present in the mid-1920s EXCEPT

Which president said, "the chief business of the American people is business"?

What lawyer defended the biology teacher accused of teaching evolution in Tennessee?