Prohibition
Social/Cultural Change
Social/Cultural Change Cont./Red Scare
Legislation/Supreme Court Cases
Random
100
This is the name given to bars and nightclubs that illegally sold alcohol during the era of Prohibition.
Speakeasy
100
This was the period after each world war which saw massive upheaval in the U.S. and fear of many foreigners. It was characterized by widespread fears of Communist influence on U.S. society and Communist infiltration of the U.S. government.
Red Scare
100
The Red Scare was the fear of
Communism
100
Amendment that enacted Prohibition
18th Amendment
100
Palmer Raids
· Red Scare
· Harlem Renaissance
· Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
All of these terms are associated with which era?
1920s
200
This term refers to the illegal Prohibition-era business of making liquor and transporting it using camouflage or stealthy means.
Bootlegging
200
The nickname given to women of the 1920s who wore their dresses short, their hair shorter, and lived a very active social life.
Flappers
200
These were assaults ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer on suspected radicals after World War I. They were controversial because of the lack of evidence that was needed to carry them out.
Palmer Raids
200
Amendment that repealed 18th Amendment
21st Amendment
200
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to
fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo and without stopping.
300
This prohibited the sale, use, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
18th Amendment
300
This was a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism, fell from prominence after Reconstruction, but was reborn in the 1920s and remained powerful through the 1960s.
Ku Klux Klan
300
After the Bolshevik Revolution Russia changed its name to what?
The Soviet Union
300
What was the result of the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?
The doctrine of "separate but equal" was allowed to continue.
300
Henry Ford's most noteworthy contribution to industry is the
perfection of the assembly line process of production.
400
A major reason for ending Prohibition was
The cost of enforcing it
400
The Red Scare following World War I was caused primarily by
fear of communist infiltration of the United States.
400
Movement meant to improve the population through selective breeding and the sterilization of those deemed unfit to reproduce
Eugenics
400
This act made the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces illegal.
Sedition Act
400
Henry Ford was one of the most influential people of the Twentieth Century when he created the assembly line. What were three impacts of the assembly line on the American economy?
increased productivity
lowered prices of goods
made goods more easily available to consumers
500
This cartoon references an action that would eventually be known as
21st Amendment
500
Social Darwinists believed that
"Survival of the fittest"
(powerful nations were meant to dominate weaker societies.)
500
Tennessee Science Teacher who was put on trial for teaching the 'Theory of Evolution'
John Scopes
500
This was a 1917 Act passed after entering World War I that made it a crime to pass information that would interfere with the success of the US Armed Forces.
Espionage Act
500
Who won the election of 1896 on a platform of increased industrialization, higher wages, and the "gold standard"?
William McKinley