The document provides an overview of several key events, people, and developments in the United States during the 1920s. It covers political scandals like the Teapot Dome Scandal, fears over communism and immigration, cultural changes brought by Prohibition and the flappers, economic boom periods and busts, and influential figures like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The 1920s was a transformative decade for the US as it transitioned from World War I and experienced major social, political, economic and technological changes.

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