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This 1915 event turned American opinion against Germany but didn’t immediately lead the U.S. into WWI.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
This 1925 trial symbolized the national clash between modern science and traditional religion.
What is the Scopes Trial?
Harding’s administration was infamous for this scandal involving the secret leasing of oil reserves.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This event on October 29, 1929, is widely viewed as the spark of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
This program employed young men in conservation work like trail-building, planting trees, and flood control.
What is the CCC?
This message promised Mexico German support if it attacked the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This cultural movement centered in Harlem celebrated Black art, literature, and music.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Republican presidents of the 1920s championed this economic philosophy emphasizing limited government and low taxes.
What is laissez-faire?
This environmental disaster worsened conditions for farmers in the southern Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
Created in 1933, this agency insured bank deposits, restoring public confidence in the banking system.
What is the FDIC?
African Americans moved to northern cities during this major demographic shift, partly to fill wartime labor shortages.
What is the Great Migration?
These two immigrant anarchists were controversially executed amid Red Scare-era nativism.
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
The economic boom of the 1920s masked structural weaknesses, such as reliance on this risky form of stock speculation using borrowed money.
What is buying on margin?
This 1930 act signed by Hoover triggered international retaliatory tariffs and deepened the global downturn.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
This Second New Deal act guaranteed workers’ rights to unionize and collectively bargain.
What is the Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that free speech could be restricted if it created a “clear and present danger.”
What is Schenck v. United States?
Writers like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald belonged to this disillusioned literary circle.
What is the Lost Generation?
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover all supported this economic tool, which ultimately hurt global trade.
What are high protective tariffs?
This 1932 protest march of World War I veterans, demanding early payment of promised bonuses, was forcibly dispersed by the U.S. Army—deepening public discontent with Hoover’s handling of the Depression.
What is the Bonus Army March?
This program paid farmers to reduce production to raise agricultural prices.
What is the AAA?
This clause in the Treaty of Versailles, accepted by Wilson as a compromise, placed sole blame for WWI on Germany.
What is Article 231 / the war-guilt clause?
This music form, rooted in African American communities, became a defining sound of the 1920s and helped fuel racial tensions as well as cross-cultural exchange.
What is jazz?
This 1928 international agreement, championed by Secretary of State Frank Kellogg, attempted to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy but lacked any enforcement mechanism, reflecting the era’s preference for diplomacy over military commitments.
What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Identify one underlying structural weakness of the 1920s economy that contributed to the Depression.
What is overproduction, underconsumption, income inequality, or weak banking regulation?
In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed this controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court, aiming to secure favorable rulings for New Deal legislation, but it faced widespread opposition and ultimately failed.
What is the Court-Packing Plan?