Constitutional Law
American Culture
Economics
People
1920's Stock Market
Foreign Policy
200
This Supreme Court case declared that segregation was legal under the 14th Amendment by establishing the "separate but equal" legal precedent for Louisiana Railcars, eventually leading to nation wide segregation.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
The widespread fear of this political ideology after World War I reached its peak with the "Red Scare" of 1920, as labor strikes, bombings, and protests reached the spread across the country.
4X Bonus: Who were the two Italian Immigrants executed for murder, accused by the Media as being involved with the 1920 Wall Street bombing.
What is Communism?
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
200
This 19th century business strategy, made famous by John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, relied on the acquisition, through buyout or coercion, of other businesses in the same industry.
What is Horizontal Integration?
200
This American Industrialist created the first affordable, mass produced, automobile, revolutionizing how Americans traveled across the country.
2X BONUS: What was the name of the industrial process this person created to streamline production, by assigning specific tasks to specific workers.
Who is Henry Ford?
What is the Assembly Line?
200
This 1920's bank provided margin loans for investors and "blurred the line" between investment and commercial banking, leading to a near collapse with risky investments in Peruvian Bonds.
2X Bonus: After a Senate investigation, this bank was forced to rebrand as what modern bank company?
What is National City Bank?
What is CitiBank?
200
This future US State was officially Annexed during the Spanish-American War after wealthy business leaders violently overthrew the government.
4X Bonus: Who was the queen prior to American Annexation, and who ultimately was jailed for protesting the American takeover.
What is Hawai'i?
Queen Liliʻuokalani?
400
This Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, granted women the right to vote, marking a significant victory for the suffrage movement and reshaping American democracy in the 20th century.
5X Bonus: What 1922 Supreme Court Case held that the women's suffrage Amendment was constitutional?
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is Leser v. Garnet?
400
This controversial movement in 1920s America sought to improve the human population by controlling reproduction, often targeting immigrants, people of color, and those with disabilities, and was influenced by pseudoscientific theories of hereditary improvement.
What is Eugenics?
400
These "exchangeable contracts" allow for investors to buy, sell, transfer, or trade financial obligations such as stocks or bonds.
What are Securities?
400
This US President was the first to address the American people over the radio, radically changing the way American politicians communicate with the public.
3X Bonus: How did this president die?
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Heart Attack/King Tut's Curse while in office.
400
This American Company was granted a legal monopoly by the government to provide telephone service across America, becoming one of the most profitable companies of the 1920's.
3X Bonus: This company also made what significant contribution to movies?
Who is American Telephone and Telegraph? (AT&T)
Adding voice recording to film. "The Talkies"
400
This American foreign policy became the foundation for a global agreement for trade with China, with America advocating for unrestricted access to Chinese markets for all countries, without interference, even from China.
3X Bonus: What is the name of the rebellion that began in China in response to this Policy?
What is the Open Door Policy?
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
600
This Constitutional amendment, enacted in 1920, prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol, leading to the rise of speakeasies, organized crime, and a thriving underground culture in the Roaring Twenties.
What is the 18th Amendment?
600
This mass movement of Black Americans from Southern States to Northern Cities during the early 1900's created an American cultural revolution in places like Harlem, Chicago, and Detroit.
3X BONUS: What are the three main causes for this movement?
What is the Great Migration?
BONUS: Racial Violence (Lynching), Collapse of Sharecropping, Economic Opportunity in the North.
600
This 1920's banking innovation allowed common investors to take loans to buy stocks in companies, keeping the profit. These loans would contribute to the banking crisis that lead to the Great Depression.
What is Leverage/What are Margin Loans/ "Buying on the Margin"
600
This future US President became politically famous after volunteering to fight in the Spanish American War, eventually becoming so popular he was appointed as Vice President to William McKinnley.
3X Bonus: What was the name of his unit in the Spanish-American War?
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
What are the Rough Riders?
600
This 1920's stock was famous for being the center of various "manipulation" tactics, including a strategy of having many investors buy the stock at once to create an illusion of profitability, only to sell at the peak.
4X Bonus: What is the name of the stock market practice described above (that is still legal today)?
What is Radio Corporation of America (RCA)?
What are "Stock Pools" or "Stock Pooling?"
600
President William Taft used "Dollar Diplomacy," or threats of debt collection, against a Central American country to acquire the land necessary to build this monumental trade infrastructure project.
2X Bonus: The United States also used Dollar Diplomacy to gain a permanent lease on this Cuban Island, eventually becoming a prison for the detention and torture of prisoners in the 2001 War on Terror.
What is the Panama Canal?
What is Guantanamo Bay?
800
The Supreme Court held that publishing Anarchist and Communist pamphlets were not protected under this constitutional Amendment, arguing that a person cannot legally "shout fire in a public theater."
5X Bonus: What is the specific name of the court case above?
What is the 1st Amendment?
What is Schneck v. United States?
800
This type of journalism created in the late 1800's focused on sensationalizing and dramatizing the news in order to sell more newspapers.
2X Bonus: Some historians argue that this type of journalism contributed to what American conflict?
4X Bonus: This type of journalism was named for what creepy 19 century cartoon?
What is Yellow Journalism?
2X Bonus: What is the Spanish American War
4X Bonus: What is "The Yellow Kid"
800
The Gilded Era saw the rise of this business strategy, which relies on acquiring all elements of a supply chain, from distribution, to sales, to manufacturing, in order to obtain perfect business efficiency.
What is Vertical Integration?
800
This US President Led the United States into World War I, and advocated for the creation of the League of Nations (the precursor to the United Nations).
4X Bonus: What was the name of the "Plan" that this president put forward after World War I to rebuild Europe.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
What are the 14 Points?
800
This American company came under legal scrutiny after the stock market crash for "Preferred Lists," tax evasion, and insider trading activity, leading some corporate executives to flee the country.
What is the stock trading tactic of selling more stocks than you own (borrowing shares from the bank), only to buy them back at a hopefully cheaper price called?
What is JP Morgan Company?
What is "Short-Selling" or what is a "Bear Raid?"
800
This policy, advocated first by President Teddy Roosevelt, argued that the United States needed an especially strong Military to "influence" other nations.
What is "Big Stick" Diplomacy?
1000
These Supreme Court cases decided after the Spanish American War, held that people who lived in conquered American territory were not citizens of the United States because they were "savage" "alien races," and ultimately did not have rights under the constitution.
What are the Insular Cases?
1000
The image below describes what early 20th Century American belief about non-white people.
2X Bonus: Who wrote the poem that this cartoon is originally based on?
What is "The White Man's Burden?"
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
1000
This economic philosophy dominated the politics of the 1920's, eroding the economic regulations of the progressive era, and promoting a "let them do" attitude towards business.
What is Laissez-Faire Economics?
1000
This muckraking journalist led a crusade against lynching in America, highlighting the horrors of this widespread practice in America, leading to public awareness and attempts and anti-lynching laws.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
1000
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 fixed the American banking system that caused the Great Depression by separating what two types of banking?
What are commercial (consumer) and investment banking?
1000
American entry into World War I was caused by many factors, but outrage over secret German communication with this country sparked the United States into the War.
3X Bonus: What was the name of this famous communication from Germany?
What is Mexico?
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?