Ch. 24 Qs

10) What is installment buying?

     -Consumers could buy products by promising to pay small amounts over a period of time. 

11) What did Charles Lindbergh accomplish?

     -First person to fly alone across the Atlantic

12) Name three important jazz musicians.

     -Bessie Smith
     -Louis Armstrong
     -Duke Ellington

13) How was the Red Scare used to turn the public against unions?

     -Newspapers accused strikers of being "Red agitators"
     -Accusation of communism lost the strikes their needed support from the public ie making them stop striking

14) How did President Harding feel about the League of Nations?

     -He thought it wasn't wise to join. He wanted peace, but didn't want America in the League of Nations. 

15) What new forms of entertainment were available to the American people in the 1920s as a result of new technology?
     -Movies - first silent and then 'talkies'
     -Radio
     -Television
     -Tabloid-style newspapers
     -Large-circulation magazines
     -Phonograph records
     -Sports - baseball, football, boxing
     -Mah-jongg
Crossword puzzles
Contests - flagpole sitting, dance marathons
Miss America Pageant