The Roaring 20s: From Influenza to Jazz

1. Chapter 19 and 20 The Roaring 20s

2. Soldiers returning from World War I brought what disease back to the United States, causing an epidemic that swept the country in 1918 Influenza

3. In 1919 this city was virtually shut down because of a wide range of labor strikes. Seattle

4. Clue • Radical communists led by V.I. Lenin, who seized power in Russia

5. Answer: Bolsheviks

6. The deportation of suspected radicals, justified by broad powers granted to the government during wartime

7. Palmer Raids

8. Executed for murder despite the lack of solid evidence against them

10. Group that targeted Jews, Catholics, and radicals

11. Ku Klux Klan

12. In 1927 his solo flight over the Atlantic made him a national hero

13. Charles Lindbergh

14. The first woman to fly across the Atlantic Amelia Earhart.

15. Disillusioned author who wrote The Great Gatsby

16. F. Scott Fitzgerald

17. Became law in 1919 with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment

18. Prohibition

19. Payments required from a defeated nation for damages and injuries it caused during a war.

20. Reparations 1923-issue 50 million mark banknote. Worth approximately $1 US when printed, this sum would have been worth approximately $12 million nine years earlier. The note was practically worthless a few weeks later due to continued inflation.

21. An illegal bar

22. Speakeasy The easiest way to get alcohol during Prohibition was actually legal.  This was by way of prescriptions.  A doctor would be paid a set amount of money to prescribe a certain amount of liquor a day. 

23. Brigadier general who said the United States should increase its air power

24. Billy Mitchell

25. Agreement to reject war as a way of solving international disputes Kellogg-Briand Pact

26. Made further cuts by limiting immigration from any nation to two percent of its representation in the 1890 census.

27. National Origins Act “Very quickly, the gateway to the promised land had all but slammed shut.” Ellis Island

28. Promised to return the country to “Normalcy”

29. Warren G. Harding

30. Granted Women’s Suffrage in the United States

31. Women celebrate the passage of the�19th Amendment granting them theright to vote: Aug 26, 1920. 19th Amendment

32. Theory that the species alive today are the result of millions of years of development

33. Evolution

34. Religious beliefs based on a strict interpretation of the Bible Fundamentalism

35. Three-time candidate for president who was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial William Jennings Bryan

36. The buildup of weapons among nations Arms Race

37. Clue America’s best known gangster during the prohibition Era.

38. Al Capone

39. The unofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States in the 1920s Harlem

40. Harlem Renaissance poet who dealt with issues of African American cultural heritage. Langston Hughes

41. Clue Most famous jazz Musicians of the 1920s. (List 3)

42. Jazz Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith

43. African American who won acclaim for her short stories, plays, novels, and nonfiction Zora Neale Hurston

44. Founder of an organization for African Americans that promoted self-reliance Marcus Garvey

45. A key slogan that served as a rallying cry for members of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association “Back to Africa”

46. During World War I when African Americans moved from the South to the North. The Great Migration

47. Producer of a controversial film that introduced new filmmaking techniques d. W. Griffith

48. Clue Problems faced by the US after World War I

49. Terrorism Or Bomb scares and actual bombings

50. Clue: Policy of giving fringe benefits to employees