American Life in the Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929

Prohibition of alcohol was authorized in 1919 by the ___ Amendment. 

At the peak of its popularity, how many members were in the KKK?

By 1930, there were ___ cars owned by Americans.

Prosperity—real,sustained, and widely shared—put much of the “roar” into the twenties.

Education made great strides in the 1920s.

The process of ___, which expedited production, was made by a man named Frederick Taylor.

After WWI a black cultural renaissance also took root in uptown ___.

What political party in the US was spawned from the Bolshevik Revolution?

Central to ___ was the questioning of social conventions and traditional authorities. 

What event in Russia in 1917 heightened fears of communism in the United States? 

What sports were by far the most popular in the US in the 1920s?

The battle over teaching Darwinian evolution in schools was summed up the "___" trial.

The KKK was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-“native” American, and pro-Protestant. 

Between 1920-1921, how many immigrants moved to the US from Europe?

The first successful flight of an ___ was in 1903.

Advertising played a much greater role in business than ever before in the 1920s.

The 1920s KKK more closely resembled the nativist movements of the 1850s.

The intellectual movement in Harlem was called the ___.

Where was prohibition of alcohol the most popular?

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and other writers formed the ___ as artists inpostwar Europe

1920s artists and writers were influenced by the ___.

By 1930, the annual “take” of the underworld gangsters was over ____.

The after effects of WWI and new tax policies favored rapid expansion of ___.

Henry Ford's brand of Scientific Management was called ___.

Employers with “open” businesses sought to give workers benefits and pensions in the

___ were anti-red statutes that made unlawful the advocacy of violence to make social change. 

Movies were extremely popular during the 1920s. 

Prohibition was successful, and was evenly enforced from the day it was enacted.

The inventor of wireless telegraphy was ___.

Congress temporarily plugged the flow of immigrants with the ___ of 1921.

What legislation effectively ended a century-long period of unrestricted immigration?

The first ___ movie premiered in 1927.

___ and Progressive education were threatened by Fundamentalist religious groups in the 1920s.

Other authors, like William Faulkner, focused on a ___ style in the US. 

What ethnic group was excluded from immigrating under the Immigration Act of 1924?

The new Klan was ___ against diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture. 

In 1931, more foreigners entered the US than left it.

The fear of communists in the US caused the ___ of 1919-1920.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made a solo flight across the ___ without stopping. 

Assembly-line production decreased the price of goods and increased their availability.