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Roaring 20s

Roaring 20s. A “general strike” is. a strike by members of all unions. The Red Scare involved. the fear that Communism would take over the country. Sacco and Vanzetti were. two anarchists accused of armed robbery and murder. The “quota system” involved.

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Roaring 20s

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  1. Roaring 20s

  2. A “general strike” is

  3. a strike by members of all unions.

  4. The Red Scare involved

  5. the fear that Communism would take over the country.

  6. Sacco and Vanzetti were

  7. two anarchists accused of armed robbery and murder.

  8. The “quota system” involved

  9. limiting the number of people who could immigrate.

  10. The Teapot Dome scandal involved

  11. bribes to the Secretary of the Interior for oil leases in Teapot Dome, Wyoming.

  12. “Parity” referred to

  13. equality between the standard of living that farmers had enjoyed in good years and the standard of living that came in bad years.

  14. Henry Ford started the manufacturing system known as

  15. the assembly line.

  16. The Harlem Renaissance was

  17. the creativity of black writers, poets, artist, and musicians(jazz).

  18. Marcus Garvey was the leader of the movement

  19. urging American blacks to go back to Africa.

  20. “Expatriates” were

  21. American writers who left the country to work in Europe.

  22. KDKA was the

  23. first licensed radio broadcasting station which operated out of a barn in East Pittsburgh.

  24. Silent movies were

  25. movies which had no soundtrack.

  26. The first talking movie(1927) was

  27. “The Jazz Singer.”

  28. Match the sport to the athlete.

  29. Gertrude Ederle

  30. swam the English Channel

  31. Charles Lindbergh was

  32. first to fly from New York to Paris.

  33. Barney Oldfield was

  34. a car racing champion.

  35. Jack Dempsey was

  36. boxing’s heavyweight champion.

  37. Babe Ruth was

  38. baseball’s home run champion.

  39. Ty Cobb was

  40. a baseball hitting champion and a great base stealer.

  41. Red Grange was

  42. the greatest football player of his time…The Galloping Ghost.

  43. A “flapper” was

  44. a new woman, refusing to follow traditional rules, shocking her elders with her clothes, slang, and dancing.

  45. Prohibition referred to

  46. the Eighteenth Amendment which prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.

  47. The Scopes trial involved

  48. a young biology teacher, John Scopes, who was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution in his classes.

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