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| Interests followed for a short time with great enthusiasm |
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| people who smuggled liquor into the U.S. from Canada and Mexico during prohibition |
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| the act of limiting military weapons |
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| A wave of anticommunist fear that swept the U.S. after WWI (World War 1) |
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| Secret, illegal clubs that served alcohol during prohibition |
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| Early motion picture theaters; so called because admission was only a nickel |
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| people who seek the equal distribution of wealth and end all forms of private property |
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| a system that moves parts and partly assembled products among factory workers to speed production |
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| the process of returning to a peacetime economy |
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| people who leave their native country to live elsewhere |
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| movies with sound or dialouge |
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| young women in the late 1920s who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior. |
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| Banned the sale transportation and production of alcohol in the U.S |
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| ended the national prohibition of alcohol |
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| the first talking movie released in 1927 |
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| Writers who spoke out against postwar American society |
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| High school substitute teacher arrested for teaching evolution. |
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| 3 time Presidential candidate. Never won. part of the John Scopes trial |
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| A famous criminal attorney in charge of the defence |
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| Ran for President in 1920 |
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| American Indian perhaps the greatest athlete of the 1920's he won two gold medals at the 1912 olympics |
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| Secret society created by the white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their Civil Rights |
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| In 1928 she became the first woman to fly across the alantic |
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| First person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean |
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| U.S. Attorney General, he ordered raids on suspected radical organizations often without warrants |
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| Where did blues and jazz develop? |
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| What influenced the musical styling of Jazz? |
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| What was the Model T's nickname? |
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| What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact? |
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| tried to outlaw warfare, Aug 1928 |
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| What Acts restricted immigration in the 1920's? |
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| Emergency Quota Act & Immigration Act of 1924 |
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| What was the purpose of the Universal Negro Improvement Association? |
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| To end imperialism in Africa and discrimination in the Unit3ed States. |
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| Crime became big business as a result of what restriction on alcohol? |
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| Many usually law-abiding Americans disregarded this Amendment by entering speakeasies and purchasing bootleg alcohol? |
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| In addition to being called the Roaring Twenties the 1920 were often called what? |
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| What were NBC and CBS and what did they provide |
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| They were radio stations that broad casted news and election status. |
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