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The Twenties1920-29
Ch. 12
Question | Answer |
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The banning(not allowing)of the manufacture, sale, and possession of alcohol. | prohibition |
A place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition | Speakeasy |
A person who smuggled(hid) alcoholic beverages into the United States during prohibition | Bootlegger |
Fear of revolution and the communism and attempt to bomb prominent(important) leaders led to a crack down by the government. | Red Scare and the Palmer Raids |
Granted women the suffrage(right of women to vote and hold office) | 19th Amendment |
Two Italian immigrants and anarchists (one who uses violent means to overthrow the established order) were tried for murders. | Sacco & Vanzetti |
A Protestant religious movement grounded in the belief that all stories and details in the Bible are literally true. | Fundamentalism |
The defending attorney for John Scopes | Clarence Darrow |
A sensational 1925 court case in which the biology teacher John T. Scopes was tried for challenging a Tennessee law that outlawed the teaching of evolution. | Scopes Trial |
An emancipated(free of control) young woman who embraced(loved) the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. | Flapper |
The growth of African American literature and arts | Harlem Renaissance |
Famous jazz club located in Harlem where the musicians of the Harlem Renaissance often played. | Cotton Club |
Act by Congress that limited immigration | Emergency Quota Act |
Bribery scandal involving president Harding's Secretary of the Interior. | Teapot Dome Scandal |
15 nations agreed that all conflicts should be settled peacefully | Kellogg-Briand pact |
Based on the post-Civil War terrorist organization, the Invisible Empire was gounded to fight the growing "influence" of blacks, Jews and Catholics in U.S. Society. | Ku Klux Klan |