Politics and Gov.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
What is the Assembly Line?
This innovation by Henry Ford lowered car prices through mass production.
What are flappers?
This term described young women who challenged traditional gender norms.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This white supremacist group saw a resurgence in the 1920s.
What is the 21st Amendment?
This amendment repealed Prohibition.
What is isolationism?
The U.S. followed this foreign policy stance during most of the 1920s.
What is buying on credit/installment buying?
The decade was marked by a shift toward this method of buying goods.
What music became popular during the Harlem Renaissance?
Jazz music became popular due in part to this cultural movement.
What is the Great Migration?
Many African Americans moved north in this demographic shift.
What are speakeasies?
Illegal bars during Prohibition were called these.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
The presidential scandal involving oil reserves during Harding’s administration.
What is Income Inequality?
This term describes the uneven distribution of wealth in the 1920s.
What is radio?
This mass media helped spread consumer culture nationwide.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This 1925 trial symbolized the clash between science and religion.
Who is Al Capone?
This notorious Chicago gangster became famous during Prohibition.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This Supreme Court case upheld “separate but equal” in earlier years and still influenced the 1920s.
What is deflation or falling crop prices?
Farmers struggled during the 1920s due to overproduction and this economic condition.
What did African Americans experience in Harlem?
This group experienced a cultural rebirth centered in Harlem.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
Immigration restrictions primarily targeted people from these regions.
What is organized crime?
Prohibition unintentionally strengthened this type of activity.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This act severely restricted immigration using national origin quotas
What is buying on margin?
This stock market practice allowed investors to buy shares with borrowed money.
What is the cultural conflict between rural and urban America?
This conflict pitted traditional rural values against urban modernism.
What is the Red Scare?2
This term describes the fear of radicals and immigrants after WWI.
What is the Volstead Act?
This law established federal enforcement of Prohibition.