Section I: Post-War America
This 1919 global pandemic claimed nearly 700,000 American lives, 14 times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in WWI.
What is the Spanish Flu?
He revolutionized the auto industry by introducing the assembly line system to increase efficiency.
Who is Henry Ford?
This "iconic female fashion avatar" was known for short skirts, bobbed hair, and rebellious behavior.
What is a Flapper?
This event in late October 1929 signaled major cracks in the U.S. economy and damaged public confidence.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
President Wilson's peace plan consisted of this many points, including the call for a "general association of nations".
What are the Fourteen Points?
This practice allowed Americans to buy consumer goods on credit and pay for them over time.
What is installment buying (or easy credit)?
This 1925 trial in Tennessee focused on a high school teacher who taught the theory of evolution.
What is the Scopes Trial?
These sprawling shanty-towns were named after the president whom many blamed for the depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This Massachusetts Senator and "Reservationist" leader loathed Wilson and led the opposition to the League of Nations.
Who is Henry Cabot Lodge?
This term describes a strategy where corporations offered higher wages and benefits to improve worker loyalty and blunt unions.
What is Welfare Capitalism?
This 1924 Act drastically limited immigration by establishing a quota system based on the 1890 census.
What is the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act?
This June 1930 law raised taxes on imports to their highest rates ever, triggering retaliatory tariffs from other nations.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
These two Italian-born anarchists were convicted of murder in a 1921 trial that many saw as a product of Red Scare hysteria.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
In 1927, this film starring Al Jolson became a sensational hit and ushered in the era of the "talkie".
What is The Jazz Singer?
This African-American leader founded the UNIA and advocated for Black nationalism and the "Back to Africa" movement.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
This group of WWI veterans marched on Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of their service bonuses.
What is the Bonus Army (or Bonus Expeditionary Force)?
This 1920 scandal involved the secret leasing of public oil reserves in Wyoming to private companies.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This 1927 Act, a brainchild of Herbert Hoover, established the federal regulatory framework for the chaotic radio medium.
What is the Federal Radio Act of 1927?
These two specific Supreme Court cases in the 1920s ruled that Japanese and Indian immigrants were ineligible for naturalized citizenship.
What are Ozawa v. United States and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind?
This government agency was created by Hoover in 1932 to provide direct intervention into the private banking sector.
What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)?