Vocab 1
What were the Palmer Raids?
A series of government-led raids targeting suspected radicals and immigrants during the Red Scare, often violating civil liberties.
What was Consumer Culture?
The rise of advertising, credit purchasing, and a focus on material goods and leisure activities in the booming 1920s economy.
Which president is known for the Hoover dams?
President Herbert Hoover
What is the 1920s term for when women started wearing shorter dresses and embracing more independence.
flapper/ flappers
A new technology is every home in the US.
Radio
What was the Red Scare?
Widespread fear of communism and anarchism in the U.S. after the Russian Revolution, prompting government crackdowns.
What is Mass Production?
The rapid manufacture of large quantities of goods, exemplified by Henry Ford’s assembly line for automobiles.
Which president? Promoted a “return to normalcy” after WWI, Favored limited government intervention in the economy, Supported high tariffs to protect U.S. businesses.
Warren G. Harding
What is the nickname given to the 1920s?
The Roaring 20's
Invention that made Amelia Earheart famous.
Airplane
Who was Marcus Garvey?
African American leader who promoted Black pride, economic independence, and a “back-to-Africa” movement.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A cultural movement celebrating African American artistic expression through literature, music (especially jazz), and visual arts.
Which President believed in small government and low taxes?
Calvin Coolidge
What is Henry Ford producing at this time?
automobiles
The mass media that featured Charlie Chaplin.
silent films
What was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
A white supremacist group that saw a resurgence in the 1920s, targeting African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.
What does the Eighteenth Amendment establish?
Constitutional amendment that established Prohibition by banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
Which President promoted voluntary cooperation between businesses and government?
Herbert Hoover
Explain the role of the automobile in the 1920s.
The automobile changed American life by giving people more freedom to travel and live farther from work, leading to the growth of suburbs. It also created jobs and boosted industries like steel, oil, and road construction.
Babe Ruth was a famous member of this sport, which was America's original 'Sport'.
Baseball
What did the Immigration Quotas do?
Laws like the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 that severely limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia.
What does the Nineteenth Amendment establish?
Granted women the right to vote, ratified in 1920, marking a major victory for the women's suffrage movement.
Which President faced the start of the Great Depression and was criticized for not doing enough to stop the economic crisis?
Herbert Hoover
in the 1920s, who ruled an empire of crime in the Windy City?
Al Capone
Sports became one of the biggest factors in the economy because of this.
spectators