Postwar America
This famous hate group rose in participation in the years following the first World War.
What is the KKK?
This term was used to describe the new independent woman that arose during the 1920s.
What was the flapper?
This famous Poet wrote about the adversities that African Americans continued to face in America going into the 1920s.
Who was Langston Hughes?
This false promise was signed by over 40 nations in 1928.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This Chicago gangster was notorious for the Valentine's Day Massacre.
Who was Al Capone?
This attorney general had their own hunt for communists and anarchists in their name.
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
If you had the right password you can grab a drink in one of these.
What were speakeasies?
This pioneer of jazz had a signature deep voice and amazing skills with the trumpet.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
This president was associated highly with the Ohio Gang.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
A setup with a store to buy things in payments.
What is an installment plan?
This philosophy from a Russian political group caused what would be called the First Red Scare.
What was Bolshevism?
This new style of music was upbeat and had a mix of African and European musical influences.
What is jazz?
This novelist's writing ability to describe contemporary issues for African-Americans opened many eyes to the social injustice in America.
Who was Zora Neale Hurston?
Andrew Mellon focused on this policy that reduced tax rates on the wealthy.
What is trickle down economics?
Women gain the right to vote due to this addition to the Constitution.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This court trial proved to be one of the decades most significant trials against suspected anarchists.
What was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
The 18th Amendment.
What was Prohibition?
This jazz pianist may just be considered nobility due to his musical writing talents.
Who was Duke Ellington?
This document focused on limiting the power of navies of the nations who signed it.
What was the Five Powers Treaty?
The philosophy was also tied with the group called the Galleanists.
What is anarchy?
The USS Buford was a vessel used to transport individuals that were rounded up during this event.
What were the Palmer Raids?
This group of writers that mostly lived in Paris following World War I were disillusioned with the new advances of the 1920s.
Who were the Lost Generation?
The Harlem Renaissance was in direct connection to this movement of African Americans from the South to Northern and Midwestern cities.
What was the Great Migration?
This event dealt with federally owned oil fields given to private business owners due to bribes.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This significant court case focused on the study of evolution in public schools.
What was the Scopes Monkey Trial?