Aftermath of WWI
This 1919–1920 event involved mass arrests of suspected radicals
What are the Palmer Raids
This term describes young women who challenged traditional norms in the 1920s
What is a flapper?
This event in October 1929 triggered the Great Depression.
What is the Wall Street Crash?
This program employed young men in conservation projects
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
This 1920s law banned the teaching of evolution in Tennessee.
What is the Butler Act?
These two Italian anarchists were controversially executed in 1927.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
This 1925 trial highlighted the clash between science and religion
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
These makeshift communities were named after a president blamed for the Depression
What are Hoovervilles?
This act created a pension system and unemployment insurance
What is the Social Security Act?
This term describes the fear of communism in the U.S. after WWI.
What is the Red Scare?
This act returned U.S. railroads to private ownership after WWI.
What is the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act?
This amendment introduced Prohibition in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
This environmental disaster worsened conditions for farmers in the 1930s
What is the Dust Bowl?
This agency regulated the stock market to prevent fraud
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
This infamous gangster built a criminal empire during Prohibition, earning over $100 million annually.
Who is Al Capone
This economic policy shift occurred after Republicans regained the White House, reducing government control over the economy
What is a return to laissez-faire capitalism?
This group resurged in the 1920s, promoting white supremacy and nativism
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This group of WWI veterans marched on Washington in 1932 demanding early payment
What is the Bonus Army?
This act guaranteed workers the right to unionize
What is the Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)?
This ideology, popular in the 1920s and 1930s, emphasized traditional values, self-reliance, and suspicion of government intervention
What is conservatism?
This 1924 act compensated WWI veterans with future payments.
What is the Adjusted Compensation Act?
This act severely banned immigration from Asia and restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
What is the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson-Reed Act)?
This act raised tariffs and worsened the global economic crisis.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
This 1935 strike helped establish the United Auto Workers
What is the Flint Sit-Down Strike?
A former professional baseball player turned evangelist, drew massive crowds with fiery sermons warning of hellfire and divine judgment for sinners
Who is Billy Sunday?