1920s Laws and Amendments
The 18th amendment prohibited the buying and selling of this product.
What is alcohol?
This man famously used the assembly line in his factories to mass produce automobiles and make them more affordable.
Who is Henry Ford?
This white supremacist organization became very popular in the 1920s. It targeted both immigrants and African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This genre of music was original to America and featured improvisation and many instruments. It was very popular in the 1920s.
What is Jazz?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
This man became famous in the 1920s as America's "home run hero". Everyone knew his name.
Who is Babe Ruth?
As a result of the Great Migration, African American artists converged on New York city to create this cultural movement.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This is the term for hostility toward immigrants.
What is nativism?
The failure of prohibition eventually led to the creation of this amendment.
What is the Twenty-first amendment?
Along with Sacco, this Italian immigrant was executed despite a strong lack of evidence against him.
Who is Vanzetti?
"The drys" was a nickname given to rural Americans who tended to support this government decision.
What is prohibition?
This nickname was given to the "new woman" of the 1920s who wore short dresses and short haircuts to express their new feelings of liberation.
What is a flapper?
This law created a quota system which discriminated against immigrants from certain countries.
What is the National Origins Act?
This man went to trial in Tennessee after he taught evolution in a biology classroom. He became the centerpiece for the debate between modernism and fundamentalism.
Who is John Scopes?
New consumer products in the 1920s particularly benefited this group of Americans as they were considered "labor saving".
Who are women?
This is the term for the economic theory that lowering taxes will boost the economy.
This was the law that was used to enforce the 18th amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
This man became a celebrity in the 1920s for being the first person to achieve a solo nonstop trip across the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
When the United States Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations, they were attempting to achieve this stance on foreign policy.
What is isolationism?
This is the 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?