End of the Roaring 20's/Economic Crisis
Sprawling shanty-towns that sprang up in New York’s Central Park and in dozens of other cities and towns.
What are Hooverviles?
Clarence Darrow fought against William Jennings Bryan in this 1925 court case regarding religion
The Scopes trial / “Monkey Trial”
An industrialist who opened up the availability of automobiles to the middle class instead of just the upper class.
Who was Henry Ford?
According to the resource guide, where did the Spanish flu originate?
What is the United States?
This amendment ended Prohibition.
What is the 21st Amendment?
Due to serious drought and crop prices falling greatly, those who lived in the Dust Bowl moved mainly to what state?
What is California?
Known as the father of the New Negro Movement as well as the curator of the collection, The New Negro
Alaine Locke
Which architect did Ford work alongside to create the assembly line system?
Who is Albert Kahn?
The resource guide describes Garvey’s ideology as emphasizing racial pride, economic independence, and this controversial solution.
What is a return to Africa?
This famous gangster profited from Prohibition-era crime.
Who is Al Capone?
What were the 4 main causes of the stock market crash of 1929?
What is speculation, buying on margin, inflated stock prices, and lack of regulation.
Court case that declared physical traits were unreliable in naming a “white person” as a “member of the Caucasian race”
Ozawa v. United States
The resource guide credits this technology with creating a shared national culture for the first time.
What is the radio?
What were the 4 main ideas of President Wilson's, "The Fourteen Points"?
What is:
Self-determination (independence) for small nations
Freedom of the seas
Free trade
An end to the secret alliances and shadowy diplomacy
These two ideologies were most commonly blamed for labor unrest and bombings in 1919.
What are communism and anarchism?
A treaty between several countries (originally US, France, Germany) renouncing war & pledging peaceful resolutions for any conflicts.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)?
The act that made it illegal for white people to marry “non-white” people
Racial Integrity Act of 1924
The first “talkie” film released and marked a new age of movies with audio.
What is The Jazz Singer?
What two organizations of labor unions were most involved in strikes that occurred throughout 1919?
What is the American Federation of Labor and International Workers of the World?
Article X of the League Covenant was controversial because it required members to do this.
What is defend other member nations militarily?
German-American pharmacist and lawyer that gave “medicinal whiskey”
Who was George Remus?
The trial held for the 2 men who committed a heinous crime which psychologists studied to understand “the abnormalities of a killer’s mind”. This began the novel strategy of lessening/easing a sentence by pleading guilty by insanity
Leopold and Loeb trial
What is planned obsolescence?
What is the purposeful shortening of a products lifespan so that consumers must buy more of their products.
What were the 3 Supreme Court cases that involved the 1st Amendment?
What is Schenck v. United States, Debs v. United States, Abrams v. United States.
The Red Summer revealed that racial violence occurred not only in the South, but most notably in these Northern cities.
What are Chicago and Washington, D.C.?