Post War Troubles
This 1918 pandemic killed 675,000 Americans and 50 million worldwide
What is the Influenza Pandemic/Spanish Flu?
Eugene Williams' drowning sparked this 1919 event, also called "The Red Summer."
What are the Chicago Race Riots?
This inventor created the affordable Model T and revolutionized the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
This Republican President based his 1920 campaign on a call for "normalcy."
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This baseball player, nicknamed "The Sultan of Swat," thrilled fans with his home runs
Who is Babe Ruth?
These two groups lost their jobs to returning WWI soldiers
Who are:
1) Women
2) African Americans
This prosperous African American neighborhood in Oklahoma was destroyed in May 1921.
What is Greenwood (or the Tulsa Race Riot)?
This manufacturing technique allowed goods to be produced in large quantities by machinery.
What is mass production?
President Harding raised these on imported goods by this percentage to protect American businesses.
What are tariffs?
This 1927 film was the first "talkie," ending the era of silent films.
What is The Jazz Singer?
This Italian anarchist, along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti, was convicted and executed despite lack of evidence.
Who is Nicola Sacco?
This African American cultural movement celebrated Black art, literature, music, and pride in New York City.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
This method of purchasing allowed buyers to take an item immediately and pay in partial payments over time.
What is installment buying (or buying on credit)?
In this scandal, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall took bribes in return for federal oil reserve leases.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
This aviator became famous for being the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led raids during this period of fear of communism in 1920.
What is the Red Scare?
This many African Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban North during this period.
What is the Great Migration?
This type of financial market occurred throughout the 1920s, with stock prices rising significantly.
What is a bull market?
This arrangement loaned U.S. money to Germany so they could pay reparations to Britain and France.
What is the Dawes Plan?
KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first commercial one of these, which connected the nation.
What is a radio station?
This organization was formed to protect people's rights and liberties after the Palmer Raids.
What is the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)?
By 1925, this hate group had between 4 to 5 million members and targeted African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This group did not share fully in the prosperity of the 1920s because overproduction caused farm prices to fall and debt to increase.
Who were farmers?
President Coolidge believed "the chief business of the American people" is this...
What is business?
This most celebrated Harlem Renaissance writer captured the diversity of everyday African American life in his poetry, journalism, and criticism
Who is Langston Hughes?