Nation-wide effort to stop the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages
Prohibition
100
A period in which jazz music and dance styles became popular
jazz age
100
an illegal night club
speak-easy
100
Which constitutional amendment allowed Prohibition?
18th Amendment
100
This agreement officially ended WWI
Treaty of Versailles
200
The nickname for this time period where people defied prohibition, indulged in new styles of dressing and dancing, and rejected many traditional moral standards
Roaring Twenties
200
African-American cultural movement that celebrated the artistic creativity of blacks in music, art, and literature
Harlem Renaissance
200
What was the name given to the day the stock market crashed?
Black Tuesday
200
This amendment gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
200
Mass movement of African-Americans from the rural south to the urban north in search of factory jobs and other employment
Great Migration
300
Manufactured, sold, and transported alcohol illegally
bootleggers
300
Young women who broke with tradition (smoked in public, wore their hair and dresses short, and drank in speak-easies)
flappers
300
The fear that European immigrants were entering the U.S. "infected" with communist ideas
Red Scare
300
remaining apart from the political affairs of other countries
isolationism
300
specific term for buying stocks on credit
on margin
400
Policy of protecting the interests of native-born against those of immigrants
nativism
400
A limited or fixed number or amount of people or things
quota
400
This legal debate show-cased the struggle between creationism and evolution
Scopes trial
400
This president coined the phrase: "a return to normalcy"
Harding
400
term for making risky investments
speculation
500
The good times of the 20's as defined by a period of wealth and prosperity
economic boom
500
A term that expresses a desire to return to peace and isolation
normalcy
500
Italian immigrants who were convicted and executed for allegedly committing armed robbery and murder
Sacco & Vanzetti
500
President at the end of the 1920's (the start of the Great Depression)
Hoover
500
anti-immigration attitude was seen in this act which limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe