Jim Crow South
What is segregation?
This was an example of the widespread racial violence that erupted in Northern cities during the summer of 1919.
What is the Chicago Riot?
Following Woodrow Wilson, the presidency was won by this political party, which had been in power since the Civil War.
What is Republicans?
An innovation that allowed business to make more consumer products faster and cheaper.
What is the assembly line?
This is the period of American History when alcohol was made illegal.
What is Prohibition?
This is a form of political murder, wherein vigilante groups kill for racially motivated reasons.
What is lynching?
Widespread fear of Communist infiltration led to this in the 1920s.
What is the Red Scare?
This Detroit-based company revolutionized the American economy and typified 1920s business.
What is the Ford Motor Company?
This consumer product provided entertainment and became the most iconic invention of the decade.
What is the Radio?
What are Speakeasies?
This is another word for suffrage, or the right to vote.
What is the franchise?
The 1920s Red Scare began with this series of crusades against political extremists and immigrants.
What are the Palmer Raids?
He was the Republican president elected in 1920 who promised a "Return to Normalcy."
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This new industry got its start creating propaganda campaigns during World War I.
What is Advertising?
These women of the 1920s were known for wearing short dresses, smoking, drinking, and staying out late.
Who are Flappers?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses are all ways to do this.
What is disfranchisement?
This was a series of labor strikes in response to postwar attacks on unions, wage cuts, and hour increases.
What is the 1919 Strike Wave?
Taking over for his predecessor in 1923, this Republican president said, "The Business of America is Business."
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
He was the most famous celebrity in the 1920s, known for making the first transatlantic flight.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This 19th century organization flourished in the 1920s as an expression of increased nativism and racism.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" accommodations are constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This happens when war is over and a country and its people need to revert back to a peace-time economy and society.
What is demobilization?
The decade of the 1920s is known as this, despite the fact that the economic prosperity of the period was not shared by all.
What is the Roaring '20s?
These programs allowed consumers to pay for products on credit by paying for them over time in monthly installments.
What are "Buy Now, Pay Later" programs?
This new musical genre was extremely popular during the 1920s and had its roots in Southern African American musical traditions.
What is Jazz?