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1. Unit 5:
The Roaring 20s
United States
History II

2. Section 1

3. Communism - Fear
• Some
Americans
feared they
would
overthrow the
government

4. Warren Harding
• Republican
candidate for
President
• Wins election
of 1920

5. Albert Fall
• received bribe
over leasing
federal land
• 1st Cabinet
member to go to
jail

6. TeaPot Dome Scandal

7. Disarmament
• The reduction
or limitation
of military
armaments

8. Soviet Union
• The world’s
first
communist
nation
• Used to be
Russia

9. Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics

10. Anarchists
• people who
oppose all
organized
government

11. Sacco and Vanzetti
• Italian
immigrants
executed for
crimes.
• Claimed they
were killed
because they
were immigrants

12. Fear of Immigration
• American
culture being
overwhelmed
by
immigrants.

13. Fear of Immigration
• New
immigrants
would take
or compete
for jobs.

14. Immigration Law 1921
• Limited the
number of
people from
eastern and
southern
Europe.

17. Section 2

18. Prohibition
• total ban
on
alcoholic
drinks in
the US.

19. Bootleggers
• People who
smuggled
liquor
illegally

20. Speakeasies
• Illegal
taverns/bars
that served
liquor.

21. Flappers
• Young
women who
shocked the
older
generation.

22. Henry Ford
• introduced
the
assembly
line for
cars.

23. KDKA
• first radio
station in
America.

24. John Scopes
• taught
theory of
evolution
and was
arrested.

25. Charles Darwin
• claimed all
life evolved
from simpler
forms of life.

26. Great Migration
• large
number of
African
Americans
who moved
North.

28. Ku Klux Klan
• hate group
that disliked
African
Americans
and
immigrants.

29. Section 3

30. Fads of the 1920s
• flagpole sitting
• dance
marathons
• mah-jongg

31. Charles Lindbergh
• 1st person
to fly solo
across the
Atlantic
Ocean.

32. Jazz - What city?
• New
Orleans

33. Farewell to Arms
• book that
captured
growing
anti-war
sentiment in
America.

34. The Great Gatsby
• Book that
criticized
the life of
rich people.

35. Harlem Renaissance
• Vibrant African-
American culture
that grew in New
York.
• Writers,
musicians, poets.

36. Langston Hughes
• Poet who won praise for beauty of
poems and racial pride

37. James W. Johnson
• worked as
an organizer
for the
NAACP

39. Section 4

40. Installment Buying
• Buying on
credit.
• Pay a little
each month.

41. Advertising
• created a
new
consumer
culture

43. Bull Market
• a period of
rising stock
prices

44. Buying on Margin
• borrowing
money in
order to buy
stocks

45. Agri Depression 1
• farmers
grew more
crops then
people could
consume.

46. Agri Depression 2
• farmers
were unable
to pay off
debts.

47. Impact of Assembly Line
• forced
skilled
workers
out of
jobs

48. Herbert Hoover
• Republican
candidate
for
President in
1928

49. Al Smith
• Democrat
candidate
for
President in
1928

50. Election of 1928
• Hoover wins easy election