Flashback Review #8

ch25 The Roaring Twenties

Name: ___________________________________
Period: ___
Date: __________________

1. After The Great War, America goes back to _________________________ as its foreign policy.
2. Business leaders favored Republican presidents because they followed a
__________________________ approach to the economy.
3. Govt. & business corruption were not gone in the 1920s. The ____________
________ Scandal involved govt. officials taking bribes from oil companies to drill on public land.
4. The 1920s owed much of its prosperity to the growth of new ___________.
5. One invention that altered American life (social & economic) was an affordable __________________.
6. Because people had such confidence in the economy, they bought goods on credit.
This was called: _________________________________________.
7. Not all Americans prospered and enjoyed life in the Twenties.
Tell how African-Americans and immigrants suffered.
a)__________________________________________________________________________________
b)__________________________________________________________________________________
8. The Twenties had many nicknames. What nickname would fit the wild fads, crazy stunts and
frivolous parties of the 1920s? __________________________________________
9. New York City was home of a black revolution of culture, pride and identity.
What was this called? ____________________________________________________________
10. Why did Prohibition fail to stop people from participating in that illegal activity?
________________________________________________________________________
11. After seeing what befell Russia in 1917, what group of people did Americans fear?
________________________________________________________________________
12. To stop or at least slow down immigrants who came the US with
radical ideas, Congress set up?
_________________________________________________________
13. Some believe Sacco & Vanzetti were found guilty & executed
because.

____________________________________________

_________________________________________________________
14. The 1920s was the first time more people lived in ____________ than
in the ___________________.
15. The Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial) showed that America was moving form traditional/religious ways of
thinking to _______________ ways to look at the world.