Gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition
Who is Al Capone?
100
This law was passed starting Prohibition
What is 18th Amendment
100
Laws banning the selling, manufacturing and distributing of alcohol
What is Prohibition?
100
With this law passing it gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
Held the home run record 34 years
Who is Babe Ruth?
200
A place where alcohol was bought and sold illegally
What is a speakeasy?
200
Began in 1922, Secretary of Interior was caught accepting bribes behind closed doors for U.S. Navy oil reserves (EVENT)
What is the Teapot Dome scandal?
200
A production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again
What is an assembly line?
200
A Tennessee teacher who volunteered to the ACLU to teach evolution after it was outlawed in the state (MAN)
Who is John Scopes?
300
Heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926
Who is Jack Dempsey?
300
this term means hostility towards immigrants
What is Nativism?
300
Wrote the Great Gatsby epitomizing the culture and mindset of the roaring 20's
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
300
What was the day called that started the Great Depression?
What is "Black Thursday"?
300
The widespread fear that a Communist revolution in America was near
What is the Red Scare?
400
wrote a Farewell to Arms (about the aftermath of WWI)
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
400
Helped establish the FBI after his house was targeted with a bomb by a group protesting the jailing of an American Socialist Party leader
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
400
a person who believes that there should be no government
What is an anarchist?
400
quick way to earn money through the investment of companies
What is the stock market?
400
A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
What is Isolationism?
500
The first talking picture "talkie"
What is the Jazz Singer?
500
Two Italian Immigrants charged for a crime with questionable evidence but because they were foreigners and anarchists they were sentenced to death (CASE)
What is the Sacco-Vanzetti Case?
500
This man perfected mass production and introduced assembly lines
Who is Henry Ford?
500
Name the informal terms for rising stock prices and falling stock prices
What is "bull market" and "bear market"?
500
Artistic development, racial pride and political organization in a flowering of African American arts