1920's Laws and Amendments
This amendment prohibited the buying, selling, and distribution of alcohol
What is the 18th amendment?
This man adopted the assembly line in his factories while producing the Model T.
Who is Henry Ford?
This white supremacist group targeted Jews, Catholics, immigrants and African Americans
What is the KKK?
This is the term for prejudice and discrimination against immigrants
What is Nativism?
This law repealed prohibition
What is the twenty-first amendment?
This man became famous as the “home-run hero” in the 1920s
Who is Babe Ruth?
African American artists came together in the North to create this cultural movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is the term for avoiding involvement in world affairs.
What is isolationism?
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
Along with Sacco, this Italian immigrant was executed despite a strong lack of evidence against him.
Who is Vanzetti?
These women were considered the “new” and “modern” women of the 1920s.
Who are flappers?
This is a term for a pop culture phenomenon that fostered a sense of shared experience and culture and helped unify the nation in the 1920s.
What is mass media?
This law created a quota system which was used to govern immigration from specific countries.
What is the National Origins Act?
This person had to go to trial for teaching the theory of evolution in a public school.
Who is John Scopes?
This is the term for writers of the 1920s who were disillusioned with American society
Who is the Lost Generation?
This term refers to a pride in black culture and was a common theme of the Harlem Renaissance
What is black nationalism?