The Red Scare
The year this scare peaked with widespread fear of communism infiltrating America.
What is 1919-1920?
This group experienced a resurgence in the 1920s, promoting anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic sentiments.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1920s term refers to the economic boom that saw widespread consumerism and stock market investment.
What is the "Roaring Twenties"?
The amendment that started Prohibition by banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
The 1924 law that severely restricted immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe.
What is the National Origins Act?
He was the Attorney General who led the crackdown on suspected communists and anarchists.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
The cultural movement centered in New York that celebrated African American cultural forms.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The secretary of the Treasury who pushed for tax cuts and believed in high investment in business as a way to grow the economy.
Who is Andrew Mellon?
The act that enforced the Eighteenth Amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
This term describes the fearful attitude towards outsiders and preference for native-born Americans.
What is nativism?
This act passed during WWI made it illegal to interfere with the operation or success of the military.
What is the Espionage Act?
This 1925 trial challenged the teaching of evolution in schools and became a nationwide spectacle.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This was the most influential invention of the 1920s, reshaping America's landscape and economy.
What is the automobile?
This term describes illegal bars where alcohol was sold during Prohibition.
What are speakeasies?
The 1920s policy that saw America pulling away from international engagements.
What is isolationism?
The event where a bomb exploded on Wall Street in 1920, causing panic and heightening Red Scare fears.
What is the Wall Street bombing?
This court case was the first major case to focus on the death penalty and insanity argument "societies fault" of two young men who murdered 14 year old Bobby Franks of Chicago. It highlighted the moral relativism of the 1920s and "corruption of youth."
What is the Leopold and Loeb Trial?
This method of purchasing allowed Americans to buy goods through small, regular payments.
What is buying on credit or installment buying?
He was a notorious gangster who made a fortune during Prohibition in Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
This 1920s act established quotas that limited the number of immigrants from each country.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
The organization formed in 1908 that was tasked at hunting down Communists and subversives during the Red Scare. _________ took over as its head in 1924.
What is the FBI and who is J. Edgar Hoover?
He was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance known for his poetry and essays.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This speculative event crashed in 1929, marking the end of the economic boom.
What is the stock market crash?
This phenomenon, related to Prohibition, saw an increase in organized crime and corruption.
What is the rise of the mob or gangster era?
This 1927 event involved the execution of two Italian-American anarchists, reflecting anti-immigrant sentiments.
Who are Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?