In 1917, the Bolsheviks removed the czar from the Russian throne and formed this new nation.
What was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
100
In 1920, these two Italian immigrants were found guilty of a murder in Massachusetts and executed in 1927. Many believed they were innocent and convicted simply because of their political beliefs.
Who were Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
100
The practice of making high-risk investments (particularly in the stock market) in hopes of making high returns on money.
What is speculation?
100
October 29, 1929 (the day the stock market crashed) was known by this term.
What was Black Tuesday?
100
During the 1920s & 1930s, this technological advance became an important medium for entertainment and communication.
What is radio?
200
The Bolsheviks established a socialist government based upon this sociopolitical philosophy which advocated workers rising up to assume power and owning all property collectively.
What is communism
200
In the 1920s, fear of communism and the mistrust of immigrants also contributed to increased membership in this organization, which, originally only targeting blacks, expanded to attack Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
200
Under this practice, investors purchased stocks for only a portion of what they cost.
What is buying on margin?
200
During the early days of the Great Depression, many believed that the government should not provide this economic sense of security to citizens
What is direct relief?
200
Transportation changed during the '20s with this man's innovative methods of mass production that made the automobile much more affordable to the common person/
What was Henry Ford?
300
A structure of government in which the state, rather than private citizens or businesses, own all the property and where the state regulates the economy with legislation and policies, rather than letting free market forces like supply and demand do so.
What is socialism
300
This post-WWI president won much of his support by stating that the nation needed a "return to normalcy."
Who was Warren G. Harding
300
This process (increased use of machinery for production) meant that products could be produced in far greater numbers and more efficiently.
What is mechanization?
300
During the late 1920s/early 1930s, massive droughts dired up land in the Midwest and turned much of the once fertile soil into dust and create a disaster known by this term.
What was the Dust Bowl?
300
In 1919, the US passed the Volstead Act (known as Prohibition). This act was enforced by this amendment which outlawed alcoholic beverages.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
400
The period after WWI when many Americans feared a communist revolution arising in the US. During this period, many people suspected of being communist were sent to jail or had to leave the country.
What was the Red Scare
400
This most notable scandal of the many that plagued President Harding's administration involved the Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, who had secretly granted oil drilling rights to companies in exchange for $300,000 in illegal gifts and payments.
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
400
This group did not enjoy the same prosperity as the rest of the country in the post-WWI economy.
What were farmers?
400
This book by John Steinbeck (and movie by the same title) depicted the struggles of the Oklahoma (Okie) Joad family as they moved to California in hopes of surviving.
What is "Grapes of Wrath?"
400
In the 1920s, this movement led to an increase in black racial pride as black writers, painters, dancers, and musicians produced enduring works of art.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
500
The series of persecutions when suspected communists and other "subversives" (many of whom were immigrants who had committed no crimes) were arrested and jailed.
What were the Palmer Raids
500
Calvin Coolidge, who succeeded President Harding, believed in this type of economics, based upon the belief that governments should not regulate the economy, but rather should allow the market to do so.
What is laissez-faire economics
500
New machinery such as tractors allowed farmers to produce far more agricultural products. This approach led to what and caused agricultural prices to drop drastically in the 1920s.
What is overproduction?
500
During the Depression, these makeshift villages referred to the president whom much of the nation blamed for its woes.
What were Hoovervilles?
500
The 1925 Scopes trial pitted science (evolution) against this religious view of those who believed that the Bible is literally true and, because it is from God, cannot contain contradictions or errors.