Culture
This type of music became highly popular during the 1920's in big cities.
What is Jazz?
This man made the assembly line, allowing for cars to be more affordably made.
Who is Henry Ford?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This ship was sunk by German U-boats inflating tensions between Germany and the U.S. BUT DID NOT cause the U.S to enter the war.
What is the Lusitainia?
This group of people illegally made and sold alcohol.
Who are bootleggers?
These young women challenged social norms by wearing short dresses, going out without male escorts, and smoking.
Who are the flappers?
This group of islands was ruled by a queen before America overturned her rule in an effort to spread democracy.
This piece of legislation made all Native Americans born on U.S. soil into U.S. citizens.
What is the Indian Citizenship Act?
This secret communication between Germany and Mexico, intercepted by the U.S. promised Mexico the return of Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico if they attacked the U.S.
After intercepting this communication the U.S. declared war on Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
There were many scandals under this president and he eventually died in office while on a trip. He was not corrupt himself but he was bad a choosing people to put in places of power and responsibility.
Who is President Harding?
These secret bars started popping up in cities after alcohol was banned.
What are speakeasys?
The explosion of this ship in the Havanna harbor gave the U.S. an excuse to declare war on Spain, igniting the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This amendment banned all alcohol in an attempt to improve the moral fiber of America, but led to wide spread bribery and crime.
What is the 18th amendment?
This was the primary method of fighting in WWI?
What is trench warfare?
This President was Assassinated while attending a fair, after coming out of the hall of music by a man hiding the gun in a bandage wrapped hand.
Who is President McKinley?
This group began to resurface during the 20's and began violently opposing groups of people they saw as "opposing traditional American values".
Who are the KKK?
What is the League of Nations?
This Act established a military draft, enlisting the help of men to fight in World War I.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This treaty ended World War I and put the entirety of the blame of war on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This President took over after Harding died in office and was much more reserved and business like. He believed in limited governments and is responsible for giving more power to the Budget Bureau.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
This cultural phenomena was caused by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia at the end of WWI and the fear of communism spreading through Asia.
What is the Red Scare?
This tariff was the final domino that caused the Great Depression.
What is the Smoot-Hawley tariff?
While also a part of culture, these inventions were a major part of American progress that had American families sitting around them at night to learn about the world and spend time together as a family.
What are radios?
The assassination of this man, the heir to the Austrian-Hungary throne, by a radical group of Serbians known as "The Black Hand" ultimately led to the beginning of World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This president presided over the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and while things look good on the surface, there are many glaring weakness of the economy.
Who is Herbert Hoover?