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- 3. a nineteenth-century term for the illegal transport of alcoholic beverages that became popular during prohibition
- 5. After being introduced during World War I, ____________ became a common feature in American homes of the 1920s.
- 10. The stock market crash of October 1929 set the ____________ Depression into motion.
- 11. The ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬_________________ changed the face of America, both economically and socially.
- 13. Mass _____________, especially of the automobile, increased mobility and fostered new industries.
- 15. someone who lives outside of their home country
- 17. October 29, 1929: Stock holders traded over sixteen million shares and lost over $14 billion in wealth in a single day.
- 19. assembly line a manufacturing process that allowed workers to stay in one place as the work came to them
- 21. The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
- 22. The ________________ Trial captured the attention of the country, epitomized the nation’s urban/rural divide, and marked a key point in the debate over the Theory of Evolution.
- 25. From 1920 to 1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was involved in a scam that became known as the _____________ scandal.
- 26. The ______________ made car ownership available to the average American.
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- 1. The Emergency _________________ Act of 1921 introduced numerical limits on European immigration for the first time in U.S. history.
- 2. A reference to the infamous trial in Scottsboro, Alabama in 1931, where nine African American boys were falsely accused of raping two White women and sentenced to death
- 4. American _______________ refers to the belief that hard work brought its own rewards.
- 6. The Jazz Age female stereotype, seeking the endless party
- 7. Revived by the wartime migration and fired up by the violence of the postwar riots, urban Black people developed a strong cultural expression in the 1920s that came to be known as the _________________ Renaissance.
- 8. Where investors purchased into high-risk schemes that they hoped would pay off quickly
- 9. Widespread overproduction and overuse of the land, as well as harsh weather conditions, resulted in the creation of the _______________.
- 12. President who was known as “a man of few words”
- 14. Prized White Americans with older family trees over more recent immigrants, and rejected outside influences in favor of their own local customs
- 16. Born out of the African American community, ___________ was a uniquely American music.
- 18. The _________________ Memorandum reversed the Roosevelt Corollary and returned to the older understanding of the Monroe Doctrine, in which the U.S. pledged assistance to her Latin American neighbors should any European powers interfere in Western Hemisphere affairs.
- 20. the more permissive mores adopted my many young people in the 1920s
- 23. Known as the _______________ Generation, writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and John Dos Passos expressed their hopelessness and despair by skewering the middle class in their work.
- 24. A group of World War I veterans and affiliated groups who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand their war bonuses early, only to be refused and forcibly removed by the U.S. Army