Progressives
This was banned by the 18th Amendment in an effort to fight social ills, but it also inadvertently fueled organized crime.
What is Alcohol?
A period of vibrant Black cultural expression in NYC, celebrated by figures like Alain Locke as the rise of "The New Negro."
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Navajo and other Native American soldiers who used their complex, unwritten languages as a secret code that the Axis powers could not break.
Who were the Code Talkers?
This was the massive June 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy, which established a Western Front and began the liberation of France.
What is D-Day?
The 1930s environmental disaster on the Great Plains, where drought and poor farming led to massive dust storms and a migration of "Okies."
What is the Dust Bowl?
Journalists who exposed social problems, like Upton Sinclair in "The Jungle," or Nelly Bly in "Ten Days in a Mad-House," leading to widespread public demand for reforms.
Who were Muckrakers?
The mass demographic shift of Black Americans from the Jim Crow South to Northern industrial jobs, especially during and after WWI.
What is the Great Migration?
Private gardens planted by civilians to supplement the food supply, easing the strain of wartime rationing and boosting morale.
What were Victory Gardens?
The international peacekeeping body championed by FDR to prevent future global wars, established in 1945 with a Security Council and General Assembly.
What is the United Nations?
The dramatic post-WWII surge in birth rates from 1946 to 1964, which fueled suburban growth and a focus on consumer culture.
What is the Baby Boom?
This campaign, led by groups like NAWSA and the NWP, argued women's votes were needed to "clean up politics" and ended with the 19th Amendment.
What is Woman Suffrage?
The period of intense, widespread racial violence and rioting across U.S. cities in 1919, notable for Black communities fighting back against white supremacist violence.
What is the Red Summer?
This iconic symbol represented the millions of women who took on industrial factory work to support the war effort.
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The 1915 sinking of this passenger ship, which was carrying military supplies, killed 128 Americans and pushed the U.S. closer to WWI.
What is the Lusitania?
FDR's personal radio addresses to the nation, allowing him to speak directly to the people, which he used to explain the New Deal and successfully calm the panic during the 1933 bank crisis.
What are Fireside Chats?
The 1915 anti-Semitic lynching of this Atlanta factory manager led to the resurgence of the KKK and the founding of the ADL.
Who was Leo Frank?
The prosperous, self-contained Greenwood District in Tulsa that was destroyed by a white mob in a 1921 race massacre, obliterating community wealth.
What is Black Wall Street?
The call by Black newspapers to defeat fascism overseas as well as racial discrimination and segregation in America.
What is the Double-V Campaign?
The intercepted 1917 German proposal offering to help Mexico reclaim U.S. territory if it joined the war against the Allies.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The WWI veterans who protested in D.C. for early bonus payments in 1932 and were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army, destroying Hoover's presidency.
What is the Bonus Army?
This 1925 "trial of the century" in Tennessee became a public showdown between modern science and religious fundamentalism over teaching evolution.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This Black Nationalist leader of the UNIA championed the "back-to-Africa" movement and Black-owned commercial ventures like the Black Star Line.
Who was Marcus Garvey?
The 1942 order signed by FDR that led to the forced internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans, a policy later deemed a grave injustice.
What is Executive Order 9066?
The WWI peace treaty that imposed crippling restrictions and financial reparations on Germany, sowing the seeds for WWII.
This 1924 law severely restricted immigration by setting racist quotas based on the percentage of people from each country living in the US in 1890, effectively banning immigrants from Asia and Southern/Eastern Europe.
What is the National Origins Act?